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• Corporate Responsibility Best Practices Webcast at the NYSE
• CROA Convenes Corporate Excellence for Government Roundtable
• Making the Corporate Responsibility Business Case to the C-Suite
• CROA Convenes European Steering Group
• 2010 CRO Spring Summit, Boston, MA, April 21
• 2009 CRO Fall Summit, Chicago, IL, October 6
• 2009 CRO Spring Summit, Washington, DC, April 23
• 2008 CRO Summer Summit, San Francisco, CA, June 18
• 2008 CRO Fall Summit, Chicago IL, October 29
• 2007CRO Fall Summit, Chicago, IL, September 12
• 2007 CRO Spring Summit, NYC, NY March 27

Corporate Responsibility Best Practices Webcast
10am ET on July 21^st 2010 Online & at the New York Stock Exchange

It's too bad Corporate Responsibility professionals have to make it all up as they go along.  Right?  Wrong.  There may not be a text book, but there are people who have traveled this road before you.  Earlier this year, the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association (CROA) and NYSE Euronext fielded the largest survey of corporate responsibility best practices ever conducted, sending surveys to every publicly traded company on the NYSE Euronext indexes.  650 companies responded.  Now you can compare your company to the database and hear from some of the best practitioners in one hands-on Webcast.

During this live and interactive Webcast you will access the data and hear from some of the largest, most responsible companies in the world hosted by the CROA and NYSE Euronext.  Public registration is now open. Click here to to take the survey.

To view the webcast, click here.

Corporate Excellence for Government Roundtable and CR Magazine Announces Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting list on June 30^th

The American public demands increasing transparency and accountability from their government and the companies with which it does business.  President Obama has responded with an historic commitment to bring more transparency and integrity to the way his Administration conducts itself and how it interacts with its business partners.  In keeping with these principles, CROA is pleased to announce the creation of the Corporate Excellence for Government Roundtable with a breakfast session on June 30^th presented in partnership with George Washington University’s Institute for Corporate Responsibility. Please join us for:

Corporate Responsibility in the Public Interest:
Best Practices in Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability
Wednesday, June 30th from 8:00-10:00am
Duques Hall, George Washington University
2201 G St., NW, Room 650, Washington, DC 20052

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ms. Martha Johnson, Administrator, General Services Administration
• Ms. Wendy Hallgren, Vice President, Corporate Compliance, Fluor
• Ms. Julie Basile, Chief Acquisition Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Mr. Kevin Landy, Chief Counsel, US Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee
• Mr. Charles Prow, Managing Partner, Public Sector, IBM Global Business Services

The Corporate Excellence for Government Roundtable fostersand evolves corporate responsibility practices, measures, and disclosure in the government contractor community.  Through this vibrant community of practice, cross-sector leaders collectively produce models, measurements, and recommendations to drive transparency and accountability over the next quarter century. For more information and to get involved, please contact Joiwind Ronen, Director of the Roundtable initiative.

At this session, CR Magazine will release the inaugural list of the Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting. The ranking will follow the methodology of CR's 11-year-old Best Corporate Citizens List, which reviews over 300 publically-disclosed data points in environment, governance, ethics, climate change, human rights, employee relations, and philanthropy.

CROA Members, Government, Academics, Students & Nonprofit leaders: $25 registration fee. Other attendees: $50 registration fee.  To register for the June 30th session, click here.

Making the Corporate Responsibility Business Case to the C-Suite

How do you demonstrate to the CEO and CFO that CR & Sustainability make good business sense?  What are your executive communication opportunities and challenges in "hitting the right pitch" to help transform your organizations into world-class sustainability leaders?  CROA is pleased to announce a panel presentation in partnership with George Washington’s Institute for Corporate Responsibility:

Making The Business Case to the Rest of the C-Suite

Wednesday, June 16^th from 5:00-7:00pm
Duques Hall, George Washington University
2201 G St., NW, Room 650, Washington, DC 20052

Invited speakers include:

·        Chad Holliday, Chairman of the Board, Bank of America 

·        Miranda Anderson Ballentine, Director of Sustainability, Wal-Mart

·        Melissa Adams, Vice President of Sustainability, Washington Gas

To register please email your contact information to Mariya Isayeva or call her at 202-994-3452.

CROA Convenes European Steering Committee

Monday, June 21^st from 10:30-7:00pm
NYSE Euronext Offices 39, rue Cambon
75008 Paris, France

The idea that companies contribute to societal wellbeing beyond their legal obligations has a long tradition in Europe, with the interaction between business and society shaped by the diversity of economic, political and cultural landscapes across the continent.  With this tradition in mind, the CROA actively seeks European corporate leaders to serve as Steering Committee Members to help share European CR practices with our growing global association.

At this founding meeting, Steering Committee Members will come together to plan the future of Corporate Responsibility in Europe.  Confirmed participants include executives from some of the largest and most responsible companies in Europe.  For mor information or to RSVP for this important meeting, please contact Cynthia Lawton.

NYSE Euronext to Join CRO Association Board of Governors

BusinessWire 10-5-09 - The Corporate Responsibility Officers Association today announced that NYSE Euronext, the world's most diverse stock market representing over 80 percent of the companies listed on the 2009 CRO 100 Best Corporate Citizens List, will endorse the CROA's initiatives in professionalizing and promoting corporate responsibility practices to its worldwide member companies and will join the CROA Board of Governors, effective immediately. The NYSE Euronext relationship extends to CROA's official media and events platforms, CRO Magazine (publisher of the annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List) and the CRO Summits. In connection with the relationship, NYSE Euronext SVP Global Markets Walter Lukken will provide a keynote speech at the CRO Summit October 6-7 at the Union League Club of Chicago.
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