Stewardship Action Council formed to promote Sustainable & Responsible Business Practices

According to the CSRwire press release, The Stewardship Action Council (SAC) announced its formation yesterday with aims to promote and improve sustainable and socially responsible business practices, provide a space where cross-functional collaboration can take place, and develop a performance-based sustainability index.

This new multi-stakeholder organization is open to industrial facilities, academic institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, the investment community and trade associations with the mission to: Raising the level of social, environmental, and economic performance through shared responsibility and collaboration among business, non-governmental, academic, and government organizations.

Goals include:

creating a multi-stakeholder learning network.
creating collaborative partnerships to address local and regional environmental, social and economic challenges.
advancing sustainability performance and recognizing and sharing outcomes.

My hope is that SAC will also act as a bridge to the federal government where they can advise as experts and influence public policies and/or legislation that incentivizes sustainable and socially responsible business practices. As you can see from the list of founding members below, state governments are represented but there are no federal agencies connected to this group yet.

Founding members of SAC include: