On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:
Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility
It appears to be something for for-profit corporations to do to appear less rapacious.
It's not clear what its applicability is to a 501(c)3 charity, given that you only get 501(c)3 by being of social benefit in the first place.
- d.
From the article, "business would monitor and ensure its support to law,
ethical standards, and international norms"
Later down, there is a section:
"Crises and their consequences
Often it takes a crisis to precipitate attention to CSR."
That is nicely illustrated by how the Siegenthaler libel resulted in our development of the Biographies of living persons policy. This is a recurrent pattern: a scandal or row of some sort results in us developing policies and practices which avoid or ameliorate the problem.
But we don't need to wait for crises; we can proactively address social, environmental, and responsibility issues before they arise. Any suggestions?
Fred Bauder