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Net Impact is a nonprofit membership organization for students and professionals interested in using business skills in support of various social and environmental causes. It serves both a professional organization and one of the largest student organizations among MBAs in the world.〔Vogel, David. ''The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility'' Brookings Institution Press, 2004〕 From its central office in San Francisco, the organization supports over 200 autonomous volunteer-run chapters and a membership base of over 10,000, with programs and networking events centered on topics such as corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, international development, and environmental sustainability. ==Historical background== Net Impact was founded in 1993 as Students for Responsible Business (SRB). Its inaugural conference was convened by 13 graduate business students in collaboration with Dr. Mark Albion and a handful of members of Social Venture Network, an organization that has been a launching pad for several other organizations within the business and society movement.〔Hollender, Jeffrey and Stephen Finchell, ''What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening'', Basic Books, 2004〕 The organization grew steadily in its first few years as an organization exclusively for graduate students. Beginning in 1998, a professional network of SRB alumni began to form. The organization was renamed Net Impact in 1999 in part to accommodate a shift toward inclusion of professional MBA graduates.〔”Naming the Future” ''Leading Business'', Net Impact, Fall 1999〕 The first professional chapter was launched in San Francisco in 2001, and in 2008 professionals made up 44% of all dues-paying members, and 23% of chapters. In 2007, an undergraduate pilot program was initiated, growing to 34 undergraduate chapters by early-2009. While the bulk of Net Impact’s activity has been focused in the United States, international chapters began as early as 1997 at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The inaugural European conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland in June, 2008 in partnership with HEC Geneva IOMBA, INSEAD and the University of Nottingham.〔Zaidman, Yasmina “Net Impact Europe: Can Business Make a Positive Difference?” ''Acumen Fund Blog'', Between 2004 and 2008, under the leadership of Executive Director Liz Maw, the organization increased its paid membership nearly fivefold, in keeping with a growth trend that has been identified among MBAs and society at large toward interest in responsible business practices.〔“CSR Jobs Rank High for Newly Minted MBAs: Report” ''GreenBiz'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Net Impact」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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