MacArthur Foundation CIW co-founder Greg Asbed was honored with a MacArthur “Genius” Grant as part of the class of 2017. Asbed and CIW were recognized for transforming conditions for low-wage workers with a visionary model of worker-driven social responsibility. READ MORE AT THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
Labor expert and Professor Janice Fine in the New York Times Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/in-florida-tomato-fields-a-penny-buys-progress.html
Bernice Yeung, Pulitzer Prize Nominee, in Slate Magazine READ MORE
Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 world-changing initiatives by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Read more at the HBR website: https://hbr.org/2017/09/audacious-philanthropy
10-year, independent study by NGO MSI Integrity cites Fair Food Program, Worker-driven Social Responsibility model as leading examples of new “gold standard,” with effective mechanisms for “empowering rights holders to know and exercise their rights” Read the summary
End of visit statement, United States of America (6-16 December 2016) by Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children Washington DC, 19 December 2016– I am grateful to the Government of the United States of America for the invitation to carry out an official country visit from 6 …