Cause for Success: 10 Companies That Put Profit Second and Came in First

Cause for Success presents insights gained from examining ten companies into the new paradigm for business success in the 21st century. It shows how a leading set of “high-purpose” companies moved beyond charitable giving and used constructive social engagement as the central means of improving their performance in the marketplace.

The High-Purpose Company: The TRULY Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now

Based on an analysis of 75 companies’ corporate social responsibility practices, Arena shows why CSR is an essential means to success in today’s corporate world. She draws a clean “line in the sand” between companies driven by purposeful ideals and those that merely pretend to be responsible. She shows why true corporate responsibility is not just a buzzword but a key step toward higher profits and long-term success.

The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Strategic Alliances

Austin discusses the process of creating and sustaining successful strategic partnerships between nonprofits and businesses. Insights and lessons are drawn from the experiences of more than 15 collaborations, including Timberland and City Year, Starbucks and CARE, and Georgia-Pacific and The Nature Conservancy.

Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses

In his award-winning book The Collaboration Challenge, James E. Austin demonstrated how nonprofits and businesses can succeed through strategic alliances. Now, in Meeting the Collaboration Challenge, the Drucker Foundation provides specific guidance to help nonprofits of every size put collaboration into practice. This workbook, its companion videotape, and The Collaboration Challenge help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses.

The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

Benioff and 19 other leaders share their corporate philanthropy secrets, revealing how any company can start their own program and reap enormous benefits.

Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well

Benioff and Southwich ask, “What if every corporation in the world devoted one percent of its revenues, one percent of its employees’ time, and one percent of its stock to the communities it serves? What would happen?” It would change the world. This book suggests that such a radical change is possible, and lays out the blueprint to do so, with a radically new model in which companies leverage all of their assets-including employees, equity, products, and relationships-in order to provide real value to the communities in which they operate. Case studies look at how both large and small companies, have structured their philanthropy programs for maximum effectiveness and true integration.

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

The Freedom Formula: Put Soul in Your Business and Money in Your Bank.

Entrepreneurs want freedom! Freedom to make a difference in the world; freedom to make as much money as you desire; freedom to do what you want, when you want; freedom to follow your Divine path; Freedom to be…YOU! This Freedom Formula answers the age old question, Can I really have it all? Yes, you can! Gone are the days of believing that being of service means you also have to be poor. Finished are the times of feeling guilty about getting paid well for sharing your natural gifts with the world. Banished are the thoughts of believing you have to work hard to make money. Instead, say hello to a new life of purpose-drive profit and soul-satisfying success. Say hello to the freedom you ve been searching for.