{"id":9777,"date":"2017-09-22T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:52:44","slug":"2017-10-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-10-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Hosted by Arthur Jackson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 29, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Arthur Jackson will introduce the concept of a Benefit Corporation, and then show a 30 minute video of a HCSV Forum talk by John Montgomery on Benefit Corporations from 3\/31\/13 (https:\/\/vimeo.com\/64508036).  Mr. Jackson will then host the Q&#038;A period, drawing from John\u2019s article in the May\/June 2014 issue of The Humanist magazine (https:\/\/thehumanist.com\/magazine\/may-june-2014\/features\/the-benefit-corporation) which Mr. Jackson helped make possible by connecting John with Jennifer Bardi, the editor of The Humanist.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jackson would like to promote the idea of Benefit Corporations, which give corporations a conscience so they benefit all of society &#8211; not just the investors.  Mr. Jackson&#8217;s goal is to find a way to develop pressure groups to spread the idea of benefit corporations and the power they have to change the whole world through using economies fairly.  In contrast, traditional corporate law often forces corporations to stand in opposition to a society\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243067665\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/243067665\">Humanist Community Forum (2017-10-29): Benefit Corporations (Arthur Jackson)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/243586580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted by Arthur Jackson October 29, 2017 Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Arthur Jackson will introduce the concept of a Benefit Corporation, and then show a 30 minute video of a HCSV Forum talk by John Montgomery on Benefit Corporations from 3\/31\/13 (https:\/\/vimeo.com\/64508036). Mr. Jackson will then host the Q&#038;A period, drawing from John\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-10-29\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benefit Corporations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9859,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}