ifPeople Newsletter (aqui en Español)
April 20, 2004 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Welcome to our first newsletter! We are glad that you all are a part of our community and hope you enjoy the information here. Please pass it along and tell your colleagues to sign up on our Web site, www.ifpeople.net. We are now announcing a Spanish-language mirror of our site at www.empresasustentable.com. Also we would love to hear from you with your news and ideas.

Best wishes,
Chris Johnson and Tirza Hollenhorst
ifPeople Co-founders

Social Enterprise
The Building Blended Value Event Series explores ways of creating synergies among various sectors of related activity--business, social, academic, and government--in an attempt to spark interdisciplinary initiatives. The series will take place over the 5 months (March 23 to July 30) and will address the capital challenge, performance metrics, the regulatory environment and other areas critical affecting our work.
>> For more information and a schedule

Responsible Technology
Technology can be a powerful tool for change, especially when used responsibly. Responsible Information Technology management should be an important part of any socially responsible enterprise's policies and practices. ResponsibleIT is a set of guidelines to help combine the performance and efficiency benefits of technology with socially responsible and environmentally sustainable practices. ifPeople has built the Guidelines for ResponsibleIT on best practices, industry research, and the extension of social responsibility to business processes that often fail to incorporate such practices.
>> To view ifPeople's ResponsibleIT standards and the benefits they generate

Report on Tools for Business Social Responsibility: A new report in English and Spanish
ifPeople announces a report with clear and practical information about 13 major tools for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This freely available online resource offers information about tools and their use in business and civil society. The objective of this report is to give civil society organizations and businesses access to and an understanding of the tools that foster CSR.
>> View full article and access the reports or view the tools available for download

White paper on Evolutionary Leadership and Sustainability
Tirza Hollenhorst of ifPeople in collaboration with Manuel Manga of the Center for Evolutionary Leadership announces a white paper on leadership for sustainable organizations. The paper explores five competencies leaders need to effectively manage socially responsible and ecologically sustainable businesses. These competencies of the Evolutionary Leader are those of vision and back-casting, language and conversations, systems thinking, scientific understanding of sustainability, and culture and organizational learning.
>> View the full paper
>> Learn more about ifPeoples Sustainability services and training

Free Software and Non-Profit Organizations
Have you seen IBM's advertisements promoting Linux and want to know what the big news about Free Software is? A new guide, written especially for non-profit organizations, explains what Free Software is, how it is developed, and how to decide if its right for your organization. This accessible guide includes worksheets for evaluating total lifetime cost and case studies about specific applications of Free Software in non-profits.
>> To get a copy of the guide
>> Interested in learning more about Free Open Source software? ifPeople can help you select and implement the most appropriate software solution for Web sites, project management, and knowledge management software.

Earth Day
ifPeople will host a booth at the 7th annual Earth Day at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The event will draw the local university population as well as local business and community leaders. The Earth Day Celebration will be held on Friday April 23rd from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the Skiles Walkway and the Georgia Tech Plaza. Come join ifPeople and find out about our sustainability solutions and what we are doing do be a sustainable company.
>> For more information

EnviroDesign
EnvironDesign is one of the most well-respected symposiums dealing with the topics of sustainable design and business practices and their ability to be incorporated into mainstream America. Now in its eighth year, the EnvironDesign conference has been expanded to strengthen the dialog between all business-to-business enterprises. During the two-and-a-half day event, participants will have a chance to learn from the visionaries who are changing the environmental landscape in the 21st century.
>> For information about the conference and ifPeople's participation