About CSRHubWe believe that providing these corporate social ratings will increase the transparency of CSR progress and performance, and more openly encourage critical discussions of how companies treat their employees, impact the environment, adjust their carbon footprint, act in their community, provide innovative products and services for sustainable development and govern themselves. We hope that this site is part of a broad change that relates company marketplace performance to their environmental, social and governance performance.Today, many companies publicly share and prioritize their environmental, employee, community and governance actions and performance. Yet, this information is not always formally reported, and even if it is, it isn't codified. Of the Fortune 1000, about 70 percent talk about CSR on their website, but only an estimated 27 percent provide a CSR report. The percentage of smaller companies reporting their CSR behavior is even lower.CSRHubCSRH_f6cf8df6-6636-11e4-800b-2011955b75b0CSRHub is a B Corporation, an Organizational Stakeholder (OS) with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a silver partner with Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a founding member of The Alliance of Trustworthy Business Experts (ATBE) and supports both the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) and the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC).ManagersManagers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.ResearchersActivistsMarketing ManagersMarketing managers compare company CSR ratings with competitors and industry peers.Sustainability ManagersSustainability managers learn how stakeholders and analysts view their CSR efforts.CompaniesCompanies check if they rank among the top 10 for their industry—and see who is above and below them... Companies screen their suppliers' sustainability performance by tracking ratings of over 9,143 companies in 135 industries in 104 countries.Corporate ManagersCorporate managers can determine which CSR areas need improvement.ConsumersConsumers discover and compare socially responsible companies.University FacultyFaculty and graduate students perform research on the CSR performance of companies.Graduate StudentsEmployeesBahar GidwaniCofounder, CEO -- Bahar Gidwani has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA, worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. Bahar has consulted to a number of major companies and currently serves on the board of several software and Web companies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. Bahar is a member of the SASB Advisory Board. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.Cynthia FiggeCofounder, COO -- Cynthia Figge is a forerunner and thought leader in the corporate sustainability movement who co-founded EKOS International in 1996, one of the first consultancies integrating sustainability and corporate strategy. Cynthia has worked with major organizations including BNSF, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Dow Jones, and REI to help craft sustainability strategy integrated with business. She was an Officer of LIN Broadcasting/McCaw Cellular leading new services development, and started a new "Greenfield" mill with Weyerhaeuser. She serves as Advisor to media and technology companies, and served as President of the Board of Sustainable Seattle. Cynthia has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Cynthia is based in the Seattle area. ... a common framework to compile sources of CSR data into a single consistent rating system._f6cf8fd6-6636-11e4-800b-2011955b75b0To foster access to sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) information._f6cf9102-6636-11e4-800b-2011955b75b0Disclosure[Serve as] an engine of transparency that encourages more consistent and actionable disclosure from all types of organizations._f6cf9256-6636-11e4-800b-2011955b75b0CSR & SustainabilityProvide access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information_f6cf93a0-6636-11e4-800b-2011955b75b0CompaniesCSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on 9,143+ companies from 135 industries in 104 countries. Activist GroupsDedicated activist groups, socially responsible investment (SRI) and environment, social and governance (ESG) firms, publishers, bloggers and government agencies review and analyze the behavior of thousands of companies. However, this data can be limited, difficult to access, very expensive or does not exist. Furthermore, it can be difficult to compare without a common framework to compile sources into a single consistent rating system.Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) FirmsEnvironment, Social & Governance (ESG) FirmsPublishersBloggersGovernment AgenciesESG/SRI Data ProvidersOur sources include nine leading research firms: Asset4/Thomson Reuters, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), EIRIS, GovernanceMetrics International/Corporate Library, IW Financial, MSCI (ESG Intangible Value Assessment and ESG Impact Monitor), RepRisk, Trucost and Vigeo. These ESG/SRI sources have never previously allowed an outside group to combine their data into a single product. We add and harmonize data inputs from government, NGOs, publications and crowd- and social network-based sources.Asset4/Thomson ReutersCarbon Disclosure Project (CDP) EIRISGovernanceMetrics International/Corporate LibraryIW FinancialMSCIESG Intangible Value Assessment and ESG Impact MonitorRepRiskTrucostVigeoCSRHub's patent-pending system aggregates and normalizes 58 million data points from over 339 data sources -- including private sources that cost $20,000 to $100,000 per year. We provide powerful search and analysis tools and link transparently to our data sources. Users can customize our ratings to match their personal preferences and share both their ratings information and preferences with others.2014-11-06http://www.csrhub.com/content/about-csrhub/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net