When you’re looking for CSR work, there’s a very clear mantra that everyone repeats, day in and day out. It goes something like this:
“Real CSR jobs are few and far between. If you want to do CSR, go get a functional job within a big company and innovate from the inside out.”
In social change circles, [...]

The holiday season is officially upon us, which means it’s time for turkey and gravy, Christmas carols, Chanukah lights, and lots of family time.
For many people, the holidays also mean shopping. Lots of shopping.
This holiday season actually finds me working retail at one of my favorite stores (a national culinary specialty store that will remain [...]

Often when we talk about corporate social responsibility, we assume people are talking about “the big dogs” – companies like Proctor and Gamble, Nestle, Coca-Cola, and of course Walmart.
And certainly these powerhouses dictate a lot of what gets discussed, watched, and measured, if only because of their sheer scale and impact on the global business community.
But [...]

Everyone knows the saying, Change is Hard.
And anyone who’s ever tried to lead change – whether starting a new diet at home or starting a new initiative at work – knows that it can be incredibly tough to create lasting, effective change, even on the smallest of scales.
What stinks about that, though, is the fact [...]

This morning started out like any other day.
I was scheduled to attend the Communicating Sustainability conference in Santa Clara, CA, and in typical fashion, I was running a few minutes late.
Running out to my car, I didn’t notice anything amiss – at first.
But upon closer inspection, it hit me: shattered glass covered the driver’s side [...]

One topic that comes up often in CSR discussions is social intrapreneurship (in fact, it’s something I’ve written about previously on The Changebase).
Lots of people want to do CSR work, but not everyone is lucky enough to be in the right place, at the right time to land that perfect CSR job.
Thankfully that doesn’t mean [...]

Last week The New York Times published an article called “But Will it Make You Happy?” and it quickly made the rounds among my friends and family. 
The article centers on the idea that “Conspicuous Consumption” – or the idea of buying “without regard” – is out.
Instead, Americans today are not only consuming (and spending) less, [...]

Hello everyone!
I am back from my cross country road trip and happy to report I am officially based in the San Francisco Bay Area again.
I have many stories to share from the road, but before I recap my trip, I wanted to give a quick plug for my friend and fellow Twitterer Aman Singh Das, Corporate [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that in two weeks I’ll be graduating from business school!
As unbelievable as it sounds (even when I say it), the end of my MBA program is amazingly just around the corner. While it hasn’t always been fun – derivative equations in economics class come to mind – it has been an [...]

Dan Bross is senior director, Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft and one of the most visible faces of corporate social responsibility at the company.
I first met Dan at the 2009 Net Impact Conference and recently we had the chance to reconnect at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference.
In between networking and learning at BCCCC, [...]