Corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, young social entrepreneurs, and celebrities all in this weeks New York Times Magazine!

Check it out here! Make sure you also check out the slideshow here.

1. The Charles G. Koch Associate Program
2. JustMeans
3. StartingBloc summer fellowship in London

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The Charles G. Koch Associate Program
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 Koch Associate Program.

The Koch Associate Program is a year-long, paid program designed to develop promising leaders and entrepreneurs interested in liberty and a career in the non-profit arena. Associates range in experience level from recent graduates to those with up to a decade of work experience, and come from diverse fields and academic majors.

You can learn more about the program and the Koch Foundation at www.cgkfoundation.org.

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JustMeans Careers with Impact Fairs

Boston
February 8: JustMeans Careers with Impact Fair at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

New York City
February 25: Citizenship and Social Enterprise Expo presented in partnership with the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University

San Francisco
April 10: Clean Technology and Sustainability Career Fair and Expo at Stanford University

If you are interested in booking a table at any of these fairs for your organization, please contact kschneider@justmeans.com.

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StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation–Summer Fellowship

As an emerging leader, we invite you to apply for the 2008 StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation Fellowship program, which will take place this Spring in New York and this Summer in London.StartingBloc (www.startingbloc.org) provides socially conscious undergraduate students and young professionals with the training, career opportunities, and networks necessary to drive social, economic, and environmental innovation around the world.

As a StartingBloc fellow you will attend conference sessions on corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development at our partner graduate schools including MIT Sloan, NYU Wagner, The Fletcher School, Columbia Business School, Yale School of Management, and London Business School. At these sessions you will work with MBA and graduate school professors, as well as executives at firms like Google, Echoing Green and City Year.

Apply now at http://www.startingbloc.org/fellowship.html

Doug Guthrie is a Professor of Sociology and a Joint Appointment with the Department of Management and Organization (Stern School of Business) at New York University.

This lecture was presented November 1, 2007, as the second installment of a four-part lecture series on “The Next Generation of Corporate Responsibility,” hosted by Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies

Fairbanks is also the founder of The OTF Group http://otfgroup.com, a strategy consulting firm based in Boston. It is the first Venture-backed US firm to focus on developing nations. Mr. Fairbanks was a US Peace Corps teacher in Kenya, a Wall Street Banker and Angel investor in digital technologies and biotech http://www.merrimackpharma.com/, and has, over a twenty year career, advised scores of Presidents, cabinet members and CEOs in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia on private sector development and export competitiveness.

His recent projects include working for the President of Rwanda to improve the prosperity of all Rwandan citizens by increasing the competitiveness of that nation’s tourism, coffee and agro-industry sectors; advising the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan on private sector reforms, and advising the President of the Inter American Development bank on the Opportunities for the Majority Initiative http://www.iadb.org/bop/. He co-authored, along with Stace Lindsay, Harvard Business School’s landmark book on business strategy in emerging markets, entitled “Plowing the Sea, Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Advantage in Developing Nations,” with a forward by Michael Porter. Business Week Magazine said, “Plowing the Sea points the way toward creating prosperity in developing nations,” the Boston Globe named it one of the ten best books of the year in Politics and Economics, and Exame magazine, Brazil’s leading business weekly, called it one of the ten best books of the decade. He co-conceived and contributed to the global best selling book “Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress,” with Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison at Harvard. His next book, edited with Malik Fal and Marcela Escobari-Rose, contains essays by OTF colleagues from around the world. It is entitled “In the River They Swim: Essays on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty.”

His work has been translated into a dozen languages including Korean, Mongolian, and Serbian. He was a visiting fellow at the Hoover institute at Stanford, a frequent lecturer at Harvard, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. He has degrees in Philosophy and Biochemistry from the University of Scranton, a Jesuit University in Pennsylvania, and African Politics from Columbia University in New York City. He served on the Commission on Globalization with, among others, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, and Joe Stiglitz; advised the Private Sector Commission at the United Nations; and FORTUNE Magazine named him one of the 150 Smartest People in the World. In 2006, his Alma Mater gave him its highest award, a Doctorate in Humane Letters for his “accomplishments and devotion to Social Justice.”