The following online resources provide evaluations of companies on various aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), including employee satisfaction, environmental matters, and social issues.
The BBB has hosted forums on CSR and sustainable business strategies. Search for businesses by categories in particular geographic areas to find well rated firms. You can also file a complaint or leave a review at this site.
This site has information on companies that have problematic records on human rights, the environment, discrimination, health, and security. Information can also be searched by topic and by larger issues such as modern slavery, natural resources, and tax avoidance.
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action.
The Corporate Register is a global online directory of corporate responsibility reports that includes data from the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). This site attempts to profile every non-financial corporate responsibility report worldwide. There are different levels of access, although all organization or report profiles are freely accessible, but PDFs cannot be downloaded without a membership.
The Corporate Research Project assists community, environmental and labor organizations in researching companies and industries. Their focus is on identifying information that can be used to advance corporate accountability campaigns.
Since 1999, Corporate Responsibility Magazine has ranked the 100 Best Corporate Citizens each year as recognized for their environmental, social and governance (ESG) transparency and performance among the 1,000 largest U.S. public companies.
The SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) is an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability practices, with over 4500 companies assessed each year.
CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions.
CSRHub is a web based tool that provides access to employee, environmental, community and governance ratings on most major companies in North America, Europe and Asia. CSRHub brings leading information about corporate social performance into one place so track the CSR and sustainability performance of companies.
Use EPA's ECHO site to search for facilities in your community to assess their compliance with environmental regulations. You may search for facilities, investigate pollution sources, examine and create enforcement maps, and analyze compliance and enforcement data.
The National Top 100 list represents the largest green power users within the Green Power Partnership. The combined green power usage of these Top 100 Partners, represented approximately 87 percent of the green power commitments made by all EPA Green Power Partners.
The Ethisphere® Institute is a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust, and business success.
Fortune magazine publishes an annual list of the best companies to work for. Academics, researchers, and employees look to this list for companies that set a high standard for employee satisfaction.
An annual index of most sustainable corporations in the world published by Corporate Knights, a media, research and financial information products company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on promoting an economic system where prices fully incorporate social, economic and ecological costs and benefits.
Provides access to all types of sustainability reports, whether GRI-based or otherwise. The user can search for a specific organization, or apply a number of filter and sort options to help refine the search results. Reports are updated monthly and can be downloaded in an Excel spreadsheet.
Featured in Forbes, the goal of the Reputation Institute's Global RepTrak is to provide a reputable company list ranked by performance in citizenship, governance, and workplace dimensions. The Reputation Institute works with global corporate leaders.
Green America evaluates companies based on their record on social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability so that shoppers can be informed and support the green economy by buying from sustainable businesses.
