I am using your reports in my choice of personal investments. I would not be comfortable with my consciousness if I would make money from investments in companies that do not have a responsible and sustainable behaviour, or that pursue business that I consider immoral. EthicScan's reports are the best information source I found so far to get some form of assurance in this respect before I buy shares of a given company. – Marc G., Montréal, Canada

It isn't easy to find high quality, credible and detailed information about corporate behaviour. The Canadian Clearing-House for Consumer and Corporate Ethics is a rich resource of ideas, reports, and studies. It includes an extensive library of ethics reprints, kits and other resources. EthicScan offers a rich source of diligently researched information about a range of social, labour and environmental topics.

The criteria used aren't EthicScan's. Rather, they reflect the results of debate among experts such as businesspeople, social justice, advocates, unionists, ethics professors, human rights advocates and others. This process is called a Modified Delphi Process Panel (MDP). It is repeated every 3-4 years.

Feel free to look at samples of various reports (Investor Report, Rating Report, Profile Reports.) All are drawn from EthicScan's Corporate 1500 DataBase. Some are designed for investors, others for consumers, and still others for potential partners.

EthicScan conducts original and regular research in order to maintain paper and electronic files on 1500 corporations, both Canadian and transnational. These files permit access to performance across a broad range of corporate social responsibility (140) and corporate governance (15) topics. Answers to performance questions are available in Rating Reports (425), Investor Reports (425), Corporate Profiles (650) and Comparative Industry Sector Studies (54).

Our continuously updated definitions of corporate social responsibility are shaped by a regular multi-stakeholder process. This Modified Delphi Panel dialogue involves 60 executives, academics, civil society leaders, journalists and others. We are the only research company in Canada to regularly publish our results and expose it to public scrutiny, both bi-monthly in The Corporate Ethics Monitor and in popular consumer guides and books Conscious Consumption [Aug. '02], The Ethical Shoppers Guide, and Shopping With a Conscience.

• a periodical, The Corporate Ethics Monitor, published bi-monthly since 1989
• invitation only national conferences, including Ethics on Call and Ethics Essentials
• ethics auditing professional development seminars
• a multi-stakeholder Modified Delphi Panel process where businesspersons, social justice advocates, business ethics professors and other "experts" define the changing nature of social responsibility
• newly released consumer guide book Conscious Consumption
• forthcoming book on best business practice, Shopping With a Conscience [Nov. '03]
• a panel of 50 participants from coast to coast who update definitions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) every 3-4 years through a Modified Delphi Panel Process
• previous best-selling books, including The Ethical Shoppers Guide (Broadview Press: 1992) and Shopping with a Conscience (Wiley: 1996)
• research files on a variety of CSR topics such as charitable giving, child labour, environmental management, international practices, and many others

• monitor changing definitions of corporate social responsibility
• report on trends and innovations in such areas as progressive staff policies, home-work benefits, environmental responsibility, and ethical sourcing and trading
• conduct contract research on sector-specific social responsibility practices
• advise on alternative strategies to social marketing
• prepare reports on leading edge management strategies that nurture social responsibility, diversity and home/work harmony in the workplace

• analyses of organizational ethical strengths and weaknesses
• ethics programs and initiatives based on ideal, best practice and/or incremental improvement norms
• leading edge management strategies that nurture social responsibility, diversity and home/work harmony in the workplace
• competitive intelligence on industry sector competitors

• Modified Delphi Panel Process
• EthicScan Corporate 1500 DataBase
• Corporate Social Responsibility Research
  • Profile Reports
  • Investor Reports
  • Rating Reports
• Partnership Screening Reports
• Industry Sector Comparative Essays
• Books
• Corporate Social Responsibility Special Series
• CD ROM Annual Service
• Commissioned Research on Canadian and International Corporate Performance