11:00 Give Something Back: Making Sustainability Real in a Business Environment

How do businesses incorporate sustainability practices that engage their employees, customers, clients, and stakeholders in a meaningful and proactive way? Over the last 15 years GSB's social and environmental practices show how sound sustainability practices are not only good for the planet, but good for business, and good for the community too. Give Something Back is an example of a whole new breed of companies that are quietly transforming business and shifting the value base of business from getting to connecting. These companies, known as social enterprises, are beginning to have a broad positive impact on the way business is done in the 21st Century.