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Making Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Promoting Sustainability in the Coffee Industry

Starbucks has developed guidelines for creating and maintaining a sustainable supply chain, which it calls Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. These coffee-buying guidelines help the company establish equitable relationships with farmers, workers, and communities. In this audio lecture recorded at Stanford during the 2007 Responsible Supply Chains Conference, Willard Hay explores what's making C.A.F.E. Practices successful.

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Making Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Environmental Sustainability and Supply Chains

Environmental sustainability is now an imperative for supply chains, and buyers and procurement professionals have more power than ever to exert pressure on suppliers to provide green products. Businesses are also partnering with government and nonprofits to create change in this arena. How do you communicate with suppliers on environmental innovation? At the Stanford 2007 Responsible Supply Chains Conference, executives from an HMO, a government agency, and an entrepreneurial company share successes in greening the supply chains.

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Review By Catherine DiBenedetto

Winter 2008

Boots on the School Ground

By David Bank 3

An innovative federal project turns retiring military personnel into teachers.

Working All Fronts

By Catherine Potter

How Sustainable Conservation unites all sectors for the environment.

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By John Kania & Mark Kramer 115

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Ten Nonprofit Funding Models

By William Landes Foster, Peter Kim & Barbara Christiansen 79

With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.

The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards

By Aysa Gray 39

Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Design Thinking for Social Innovation

By Tim Brown & Jocelyn Wyatt 43

By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.

The Science of What Makes People Care

By Ann Christiano & Annie Neimand 21

Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.

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