Producer Shauna Robertson, together with her then-boyfriend, now-husband, Edward Norton and two of her childhood friends, brothers Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe, launched CrowdRise — a for-profit website that uses crowdsourcing to raise funds for charity.
To date, they have raised over $150 million. According to Hollywood philanthropic adviser Greg Propper of Propper Daley, "...more people in the social-change field are realizing that, if given the choice between a pure nonprofit model that requires constant donor cultivation versus a for-profit social enterprise that is self-sustaining, they would almost always choose the latter."
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.