Corporate America’s Social Conscience. A 2005 Fortune article on corporate citizenship (CC) and its business advantages. Includes interesting statistics and quotes from business leaders on the need for actively pursuing CC initiatives.

The State of Corporate Citizenship: A View from the Inside. Covers the major findings from the 2005 State of Corporate Citizenship report conducted by The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Philanthropy, Inc.: How Today’s Corporate Donors Want Their Gifts to Help the Bottom Line. Article in The Stanford Social Innovation Review on the rise of strategic giving and its impact on the non-profit world.

Invention for the Common Good: Four Reasons Corporations Should Engage in Social Responsibility. Adapted from a keynote speech by Hewlett Packard’s chairman and CEO, Carly Fiorina, at the annual Business for Social Responsibility conference in 2003.

Are You A Good Corporate Citizen? From the Wall Street Journal’s Career Journal Online. Written by Ben Heineman, Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs at General Electric.

In Bad Times, It Pays to Be Good: A Reputation for CSR May Shield Companies from the Public’s Ire. A look at the economic benefits of corporate citizenship in crisis-management situations, published in The Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Principles for Partnership. Written for the Leader to Leader Institute by John McGlean, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, on the importance of public-private collaboration in solving the problems of community.

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Communicator’s Challenge. Written by Nancy Murphy, Vice President of APCO Worldwide on the importance of correctly communicating corporate citizenship initiatives.

Corporate Social Concerns: Are They Good Citizenship, Or a Rip-Off for Investors? This Big Issues report from the Wall Street Journal features a debate on corporate citizenship among Fred Smith Jr., President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute; Benjamin W. Heineman Jr., Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs at General Electric; and Ilyse Hogue, Director of the Global Finance Campaign for Rainforest Action Network.

Survey: Wealth and Philanthropy. In this February 2006 interview with Matthew Bishop, American editor of The Economist, Bishop discusses how super-wealthy individuals, such as Bill Gates and Pierre Omidyar, who founded eBay, are becoming much more businesslike about the way their money is used and are rethinking the way philanthropy is done.