One year on from the signing in Davos of a Compact for Responsive and Responsible Business, a movement is under way among some global businesses to become
for-benefit organizations, integrating social and environmental aims alongside delivering value to shareholders.
| GAP is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with RED, the
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Founded in 2004, Research Square is a
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(1) Formerly Cooperative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries, a member-based
for-benefit company offering reciprocal borrowing, shared collection storage and other economy-of-scale services to member libraries.
Another policy change Colander and Kupers advocate is the encouragement of "
for-benefit" organizations.
More governments are pursuing public service objectives through third-party
for-benefit organizations, like charities and social entrepreneurs.
(4) Also sometimes referred to as "blended enterprise" or "
for-benefit enterprise".
673, 675 (2009) (describing CSR movement); Taylor, supra note 2, at 745-46 (explaining goals of CSR); Alissa Mickels, Note, Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Reconciling the Ideals of a
For-Benefit Corporation with Director Fiduciary Duties in the U.S.
Some definitions of social enterprise are broader, including "
for-benefit" companies created to generate profits that will be distributed to non-profit entities, business partnerships between non-profits and for-profits such as cause-related marketing or purchasing, and public-private partnerships for community development.
(24.) For example, Alissa Mickels refers to "the historical role of making a profit." Alissa Mickels, Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Reconciling the Ideals of a
For-Benefit Corporation with Director Fiduciary Duties in the U.S.
"
for-benefit organization," (9) uses the power of business to
An emerging business trend, these social entrepreneurs are the owners of corporations doing well while doing good--coined a
for-benefit corporation.
