Business Ethics Network

Business Ethics Network (BEN) states: "Our mission is to help transform the role of corporations in society by building the capacity of our members in their corporate campaign work, by providing education, facilitating collaboration, and increasing recognition of their campaign successes with the funding community and the public." [1]

According to its website, BEN was launched in 2003 when "many of the top environmental and environmental health markets campaigners from the U.S., Europe, and Canada came together for the first time at the Markets Synergies Conference in Bolinas, California. ... They agreed to create the Business Ethics Network (BEN), with the mission of improving the effectiveness of corporate campaigns worldwide in order to make business practices more ethical in terms of the environment, health, social justice, and labor. [2]

BEN was begun by Michael Marx as a project of Corporate Ethics International (both have the same staff and address) and whose mission is: "to transform the role of corporations so that they are once again in service to and under the control of civil society. [3]

Corporations targeted by BEN-member corporate campaigns

The partial list below can be cross referenced with a much larger list on a category page: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Corporations_Targeted_by_BEN_Campaigns

• Chevron [4]
• Coca-Cola [5]
• Exxon Mobil [6][7]
• PepsiCo [8]
• Shell [9]
• Starbucks [10]
• Target [11]
• Wal-Mart [12]

BEN member groups

The list below can be cross referenced with this category page: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Business_Ethics_Network

On November 29, 2007, the BEN website listed the following member groups:

• Amazon Watch
• American Rights at Work
• As You Sow
• Big Box Collaborative
• Breast Cancer Action
• Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
• Care2
• Center for Environmental Health
• Center for the Working Poor
• Center for Health, Environment and Justice
• Clean Production Action
• Commercial Alert
• Corporate Accountability International
• Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First
• CorpWatch
• CounterCorp
• Dogwood Alliance
• Dogwood Initiative
• EARTHWORKS
• East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)
• EcoPledge
• EnviroJustice
• Environmental Investigation Agency
• Essential Action
• Ethike
• Farm Labor Organizing Committee
• Food First/Institute for Food & Development Policy
• ForestEthics
• Friends of the Earth-US
• Global Exchange
• GRACE Factory Farm Project
• Green Corps
• Greenpeace Canada
• Gulf Restoration Network
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Institute for a Sustainable Future
• International Labor Rights Fund
• Karuk Tribe of California
• Markets Initiative
• National Farm Worker Ministry
• Natural Capital Institute
• Oceana
• Organic Consumers Association
• Pacific Environment
• Public Citizen's Energy Program
• Rainforest Action Network
• Reef Protection International
• Responsible Endowments Coalition
• Sea Turtle Restoration Project
• Seaflow
• SEIU Service Employees International Union
• State PIRGs
• Texas Campaign for the Environment
• True Food Network
• Women's Environmental & Development Organization
• Women's Voices for the Earth

Staff

Same staff as Corporate Ethics International:

• Michael Marx, Executive Director, Corporate Ethics International and Business Ethics Network
• Anne Pernick, Coordinator

Contact details

P.O. Box 2401
Suisun City, CA 94585
Phone: (415) 238-9975
Email: info AT businessethicsnetwork.org
Web: http://businessethicsnetwork.org

External Articles

• John Stauber, The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats, March 15, 2013, CounterPunch.

Related SourceWatch articles

• 99% Spring
• Hans W. Schoepflin - funder, Panta Rhea Foundation
• Corporate Ethics International
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporation
• Crocodyl
• Globalization
• Greenwashing
• SourceWatch:Exploring a company's external relationships
• SourceWatch:How to research U.S. corporations
• SourceWatch:Analyzing a company's social responsibility record
• SourceWatch:Sources for basic corporate profiles

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