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Differentiate Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Responsibility Investment

Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the most known business practice that helps the company to
be liable to itself, its stakeholder and the public by having a great result on the improvement of the
company's image. It is popular not only on the entrepreneur but mostly on the people in the society
because of it having a good impact when it comes on social, economic and environmental factors. It
can help build the brand and make the society see the organization as a good and worth investing
company. As the corporate social responsibility became well known in the business industries,
consumer, stakeholders and employees are beginning to prioritize a company's intake on corporate
social responsibility when in comes to choosing a products or company because who wouldn't be
drawn to a business that give back.

Social Responsibility Investment is an investment strategy that ensuring the financial return while
minding the environmental and social impact. The investor encourage the organization to practice the
social responsibility, some investors avoid investing on business that have negative social and
environmental effects such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling and weapons. When a person started
investing it is important to research to gain some information and be knowledgeable enough to know
the option that are available to the investor. On of the options, is knowns as a social responsibility
investment means enables you to grow your money while doing good. It allows the investor to have a
profitable amount of money while helping the social causes you care about.

Corporate social responsibility is a self regulating business model that helps the company’s be
socially well known or improve its company’s image in the society by practicing corporate social
responsibility, companies is conscious of the kind of impact they are having on all aspects of society
including economic, social and environmental factors. To be engage in corporate social responsibility
means the companies is operating in ways that is beneficial to the society and its environment instead
of giving or contributing negatively in the society.

This can take in the form of giving scholarship grant on the employees family, or sponsoring
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other people, helping the community by having a program that can help to spread awareness to the
people regarding the current environmental condition. While the social responsibility investment is
the people or investor that is investing money to those company that practices corporate social
responsibility. These investment choose to invest towards a companies that is practicing of having
positive impact to the environment by reducing emission or investing in a clean energy sources, also
these investor avoid industries such as coral mining, tobacco companies due to negative
environmental impact of their business practices.

To sum it all up, corporate social responsibility is the act or business practice that helps people on the
society by having programs that can be beneficial to the society including social and environmental
factors while social responsibility investment means inventing on people or organization that are
doing business practice that is minding on the effect of their products in the society.