Areas of Our Work

Business Practcies
The CSR program engages businesses around a range of social, environmental, and financial issues. We ask them to bear more fully the wider social and environmental costs of what they produce. We ask businesses to commit to hire without discrimination and we as a church will support legislation, ordinances, and resolutions that guarantee equality to all persons. We ask financial institutions to ensure that new ways of providing low-income people with assistance and services do not sacrifice the most vulnerable for the sake of economic efficiency and profit. [learn more]

Environment
The CSR program engages corporations to promote justice for creation. We engage business leadership around issues of the health and safety of workers, consumers, and the environment. By inviting business leadership to share their insights and concerns around responsible environmental actions we urge them to implement comprehensive environmental policies. [learn more]

Health Care
We call for equitable access to health care for all domestically and internationally as a matter of both love and justice, cooperation in public health efforts including preventing and combating infectious diseases. The CSR program engages with corporations to establish and implement standards in response to the health pandemic internationally, to develop ways to offer accessible drug treatments to people in developing countries, and to report on the effects of the health pandemic on their operations.  [learn more]

Human Rights
The CSR program engages with corporations to be accountable and to establish informal and formal codes of conduct on human rights. We ask them to teach employees about their codes and measure their compliance with them. We ask businesses to commit to hire without discrimination and we as a church will support legislation, ordinances, and resolutions that guarantee equality to all persons. [learn more]

Violence
The CSR program engages with corporations to address issues of violence. We call for the reporting, establishing, and disclosing of policies and procedures that would address the variety of aspects of violence in all its forms: physical, sexual, psychological, economic, and social, both internationally and domestically. We ask them to find creative ways within their industry to work toward peace and nonviolence. [learn more]