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Maximizing Impact in Corporate Giving to Humanitarian Crises and Disaster Relief
Companies need to create a giving strategy for humanitarian crises in order to counter bias, ensure alignment and create impact.
5 Steps to a Transformative Corporate Advocacy Strategy
Many companies make mistakes with corporate advocacy, or “brand activism”, but here’s how you can build a solid strategy that’s meaningful.
Employee Engagement Benefits Business and Society: Let’s Put a Value on its Impact
The monetary value of the impacts of people-related initiatives can illuminate a company’s true influence on society and incentivize change.
3 Ways to Engage Employees as Strategic ESG Partners
An exceptional ESG strategy leverages employees through employee-driven innovation, impact measurement support and decision-making responsibility.
CSR in Content Marketing: 3 Steps for Creating Effective and Responsible Stories
Companies’ corporate social responsibility efforts should be integrated into content marketing, but to create stories with integrity marketers need to consider ethics and purpose.
Can Corporate Social Responsibility be Agile?
Going agile can help organizations be more responsive to the needs of the communities they support and make a greater impact on stakeholders.
How to Take the Bullshit Out of Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR is a lot of bullshit, but by understanding its nature, we can fix it and motivate companies to act.
These 3 Corporate Activities Need Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity, equity & inclusion isn’t just about company employees: it is also a company’s responsibility to incorporate DEI in its external-facing work.
Ethical AI: Why and How It Needs to Work With Communities
Behind the talk of making AI ethical, lies the task of making ethical AI by directly working with & listening to the communities it affects.
Blockchain Technology is Raising the Bar in Giving
It’s not just about cryptocurrency: smart contracts are making philanthropy more sophisticated and encouraging non-profit impact measurement.
Want a Way to Build Your Company’s Culture of Empathy? Start Designing for Real People
By encouraging the development of stress cases in design, companies can promote and teach empathy.
In People We Trust: Let’s Build Companies Like We Believe It
To help people be their best selves at work, organizations need to reflect trust in their structures, not just in policies.
How One Practice Can Cultivate a Socially Conscious Company
Mindfulness can develop behaviours that make us more socially responsible and sustainable,
How to Elevate Health in Your Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Companies need to take a wider view to how they can contribute to health prevention, care & treatment to support better health outcomes.
Corporate Philanthropy Needs a Human Rights Approach
Corporate human rights obligations should extend to philanthropic initiatives for sustainable and meaningful systemic change.
Corporate Volunteering: More Pain Than Gain for Charities?
Companies need to be cautious about how their corporate-managed employee volunteering goals affect the charities they want to work with.
Beyond B Corp: Doing More and Doing Better With Social Responsibility Reporting
B Corp companies need to offer greater transparency & comprehensive reporting if they want to establish themselves as purpose-led leaders.
Giving Without Restrictions: The Ultimate Gift
Sources of core charitable funding continue to be elusive – grantmakers need to open up to the idea of unrestricted & multi-year giving.
Business and the SDGs: It’s Time to Step Up and Smarten Up
Companies should use the Sustainable Development Goals strategically to commit to an actionable and deeper impact on sustainability.