Companies can help address social and environmental problems through corporate social responsibility initiatives and social business models. Under social business models, companies invest in sustainability projects that address issues like poverty, illiteracy, or disease, with the goal of making the projects self-sustaining so the company can recoup its initial investment over time. Rather than pure charity, this approach creates long-term solutions by building institutions' capacity for self-sufficiency, benefiting both society and the investing companies' own security and interests.

1. Compounding Sustainability Impact
A vast majority of the problems and conflicts in the world are directly or indirectly a
result of traditional economic, political & social systems. Business as usual suggests
maximization of profits for the company’s share holders. Many a times in doing these
companies externalize or avoid social, environmental, and economic responsibilities.
These systems need to be tweaked and modified a little in order to make necessary
corrections to make their operations, more sustainable. For example, for a sustainable
world it’s important to think globally and act locally, facilitating economic, health, and
environmental sustainability it’s important to discourage human migration from one
country to other we need to give the existing population of a country stable,
environmentally, politically, economically with enough opportunities to earn a
livelihood and support his or her family with a reasonably better way of life or living
standard than what they got yesterday. This is possible if the shareholders of the

2. company influence the policy & decision making processes in a company for investing
in social, environmental & economic sustainability of a country or a region which it
does business and extracts profits. And these actions are taken in realization of the fact
that we live in one world, if we need safeguard of our interests and our families
interests we need to build a safe community and society where we live in. or else even
the best of guns, security systems, surveillance and monitoring will be insufficient. A
happy, sustainable self needs a happy, self sustaining and safe society.
How do we do that? Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives undertook by
companies under influence and at times compulsions from the governments can do the
trick. Capacity building is needed more than charity. Generation and proliferation of
ideas, initial financial & social support, institutions & systems generations for infusing
self sustainability in left off poor and incapable class of the citizens of the country in
which the company carries out its operations are needed. Social business gives a ray of
tremendous hope. In this model companies invest in social, environmental, economic
sustainability projects with a guarantee to get there invested amount back in some
period of time. The institution or the social business it invests operates on the principle
of not just profit but to address a social cause, focus is to solve a social, economic or
environmental problem. That can be anything from eradicating poverty to illiteracy, to
solve energy crisis, to sanitation, to malnutrition, to eye sight restoration, to prevent
child death rates during birth, to prevention of diseases, anything.
Once the institution is made self sustainable economically solving various problems,
the investor can take out his investments but without any dividends. It’s not pure
charity, companies don’t lose their money, the investments solve the problem and the
money has many lives. Society made sustainable and safe, self security is achieved by
both the giver and the benefiter. Does it make sense?