Corporate Social Responsibility & Philanthropy ~ Should be based on Bottom-up, inclusion & the principle of teach a man to fish

All CSR and Philanthropy initiatives that have been and now emerging are to based on sustainable and scalable models.

The Stanford Social Innovation Review has some excellent content, community and networks
http://www.ssireview.org/

The Stanford GSB Center for Social Innovation is the direction of what is emerging as key to the future of inclusive bottom up economics and ways to do business
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/

The Stanford BASES competition and the MIT IDEAS
http://bases.stanford.edu/site/socialechall/index.jsp
http://web.mit.edu/ideas/www/index.htm

Why did Warren Buffet donate over $30 Billion
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/

Google's For-Profit Philanthropy!
http://anthonysmirror.blogspot.com/2006/09/googles-for-profit-philantrophy.html

In February 2004 the ILO World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization published its report, "A Fair Globalisation: creating opportunities for all...
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/fairglobalization/index.htm

CSR and some examples of government intervention

http://www.state.gov/p/af/rls/rm/2006/73701.htm
http://nrcan.gc.ca/sd-dd/csr-rse/bp_e.html
http://www.csreurope.org/

In India we have had some great models that have been based on bottom-up and for-profit to great effect.

Amul as a cooperative movement that changed the face of India in milk production
http://www.amul.com/chairmanspeech.html

The PCO business model that disrupted telecommunication access density in India
http://openlib.org/home/ila/MEDIA/2003/stdbooths.html

"Every day, 5000 semi-literate Dabbawalas transport 200,000-boxes in a 3-hour period, through a 25 km of public transportation involving multiple transfer points. Forbes magazine, in 1998, gave this service the highest quality rating of Six Sigma. They do this without any IT support. Their business model is a case study at the Harvard Business School. Last December, students at Stanford GSB met them as part of their India Study trip."
http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/01/30/indias-dabbawalas-reinvent-themselves
http://indiastudytrip.blogspot.com/

How companies like ITC are looking to leverage business models and technology
www.itcportal.com/ruraldevp_philosophy/echoupal.htm

Need one look far?