Ethos Team Among Phase 1 Winners in Stanford Social-M Challenge

A quick refresher: The Social-M Challenge is a ongoing competition where students design, ignite, and grow sustainable social movements that install lasting behavioral shifts on campuses and beyond.

Phase I was focused on idea-vetting, team-building, resource-gathering, and movement design (January 9th – January 23rd, 2010). Phase II is where teams are given one month to demonstrate [...]

Case Study - charity: water

Link: http://tinyurl.com/ydxwb8d

In what ways did the project use, or leverage social media to achieve its goals?

Use of photos, video and GPS coordinates plotted in GoogleEarth to prove every well built.  Using multimedia and Internet tools existing and interested donors are able to read up and get stories behind each well/project, helping to connect them to [...]

Students Compete to Propose Socially Responsible Business for Verizon

Article link: http://tinyurl.com/yarvcgd

Twenty teams of MBA students in Boston College’s Carroll School of Management recently competed to propose ideas that could both create innovative business opportunities for the major telecommunications firm Verizon and do good. In the end, one team came up with a proposal designed to make their student competitors and the competitors of [...]

Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility?

“Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility?” One of the best publications on the topic from panel experts.

And another “Web 2.0 and Corporate Accountability” led by the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at Harvard University.

Watch the panel videos or perhaps even more useful, simply read the transcripts.

Social Media & CSR: Top Sites for Creating Conversation & Movement

Here are some of our favorite sites that combine Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with social media to spread the news, connect people, develop strategy, and initiate action and good.

JustMeans.com is a twitter domain and discussion central for CSR. Big companies like Hewlett Packard, Seventh Generation, and Timberland post CSR related thoughts. The site has a [...]

All About the Stanford Social-M Challenge

This Saturday, Richie Goldman (EA Founder) was a panel speaker at Stanford University’s Converge 2010 and one of the mentors to the Social-M Challenge. Richie spoke on his 29 year career as co-founder of Men’s Wearhouse, founding Ethos Alliance, and how the planning Ethos’s CSR campaign has progressed over the past 9 months. Video coming [...]

Blog Transition

Now that the national tour is over, the “30 Days Blog” will now be the regular blog spot for Ethos Alliance. Stay tuned for updates!