Building Better Business (BBB) is an online certification programme that aims at accelerating impact-minded businesses to create both financial and social value in the greater Amsterdam region. It is an initiative developed by Amsterdam Impact, a four-year programme by the City of Amsterdam to support and strengthen the corporate ecosystem, from social enterprises to [...]
At the end of January 2022, the Bavarian Economy for the Common Good (ECG) member companies gathered online as part of the third annual Bavarian “Forum Unternehmen”, to exchange information and to network, but also to honor those companies, that had published a Common Good Balance Sheet during the previous year. The event opened [...]
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) announced the integration of a sustainability reporting pillar in its organisational structure as part of their governance reform. On January 2022, EFRAG welcomed the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) to the sustainability reporting pillar as part of the Civil Society Organisations Chapter, along with 12 other [...]
The Chilean Association for the Promotion of the Economy for the Common Good has left its mark on the current Constitutional Convention in Chile, by proposing that the new constitution complements the use of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a performance tool for the national economy. The Chilean ECG Association proposes integrating the [...]
Stuttgart was the first German city to have four municipal companies audited according to ECG's criteria. It also encourages private companies to draw up a Common Good Balance Sheet with the support program "Sustainably fit for tomorrow". Stuttgart was now awarded the German Sustainability Award 2022 for being Germany's most sustainable city. The award is [...]
Santa Coloma de Queralt is a rural municipality in Catalonia with an agricultural tradition and approximately 3,000 inhabitants. It has one of the largest populations in the County La Conca de Barberà. Earlier this year, the government decided to bring the municipality closer to the values of the Economy for the Common Good: human [...]
An initiative in Valencia called "Transforming our world, teaching in principles and values of the Economy of the Common Good in Vocational Training" introduces students and teachers in the field of Administration and Finance to the Economy for the Common Good. The objective is to bring the core values of the Economy for the [...]
Estamos apoyando el lanzamiento del *Programa de Introducción a Nuevas Economías* Edición 2 - Online para todo Latinoamérica. ¡Empieza en febrero 2022! Christian Felber and Luciana Cornaglia from the International Federation of the ECG will give a presentation at the launch of the New Economies Programme (P.I.N.E.). This is a three-month online course on [...]
Futurlab, the laboratory of the organization "Las Naves" hosts a conference on the Economy for the Common Good on November 12 (10:15 - 14:00) in Valencia and online, in Spanish: Futur·lab, el laboratorio de Las Naves que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer acciones e iniciativas que inspiren la construcción de un futuro mejor, [...]
The Technical University of Nuremberg is the first state university in Germany to present a Common Good Balance Sheet. At the Common Good Congress at the Technical University of Nuremberg, the university has now been awarded for this step, together with other organizations and companies. The official ceremony took place in the presence of [...]
