Business-NGO Partnerships Conference May 9-10, 2006
How to build and sustain partnerships that deliver win-win results

Get the inside track from the world's top businesses, NGOs and academics at the

Organized by the Ethnical Corporation

Partners will participate in Ethical Corporation's Business-NGO Partnership Conference. Over the past several years, Partners for Democratic Change has embarked on a long-term effort to facilitate closer linkages between business sector actors and development practitioners, recognizing their mutual interdependence. During this conference, Partners will participate in a roundtable with Marcela Manubens, Vice President of Global Human Rights and Social Responsibility, Philips Van Heusen Corporation, which will be moderated by Paul Martin, Executive Director, Columbia University, Center for the Study of Human Rights. Partners will share our innovative strategies for managing conflict and change at the local level in difficult environments where multiple stakeholders represent diverse, often antagonistic, interests. We will share specific approaches for managing local conflicts, how these strategies work, when they should not be used and what is needed for them to succeed.

Hear high-level executives from:
Visa * Timberland * Danisco * Merck * Intel * ExxonMobil * Philips Van Heusen * Dupont * Pfizer * Chiquita * Shell * Nokia * British American Tobacco * UN Global Compact * Rainforest Alliance * Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility * City Year * Unilever Canada Foundation * Wildsight * Oxfam America * People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) * Disaster Resource Network * Environmental Defense * Partners for Democratic Change * Future 500 * Free Enterprise Action Fund * American Enterprise Institute *

And many, many more!

Click here for the full line-up of speakers:
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/nycpartnership/speakers.shtml