A Sustaining Force for Philanthropy: Three Donor-Advised Fund Trends
In my role leading Fidelity Philanthropic Consulting, I help individuals and companies realize their vision for philanthropy—and emphasize effectiveness and impact. For many, this means using tax-efficient giving vehicles, like donor-advised funds (DAFs), private foundations, and charitable trusts...
Trend Talk: Siemens USA CEO on the importance of sustainable business
Daryl: In the past five years that you have been President and CEO of Siemens USA, how has your company significantly ramped up its sustainability efforts? Share with us what that has looked like. Barbara: Back in 2015, shortly before I stepped into the U.S. CEO role, Siemens made a big commitment. ...
Trend Talk: What does Anti-Racist Leadership look like in practice?
Daryl: James and Krista, thank you both for making the time to talk with us about your book, Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World. It seems fitting to begin with the book’s opening lines – “This book is not apolitical. This bo...
2022 Lessons: How to Improve Employee Engagement Through Responsive Company Culture
Many employees are re-evaluating what they want and expect from their employers. This is a pivotal moment for companies to recalibrate program offerings and better support employees in applying their unique talents to purposeful projects in the communities where they live, work and raise their famil...
CECP’s 2023 Look Ahead
2022 was another year of unprecedented societal challenges, requiring constant adaptation to issues caused by the pandemic, rising inflation, labor shortages, the war in Ukraine, supply chain limitations, and more. While many employees, investors, consumers, and suppliers are re-evaluating what they...
Don’t get distracted now; Stay the course on ESG and Sustainable Business
The headlines are a buzz. And in them, ESG has taken a beating, with “woke capitalism” as the click bait of the week. But we’re not worried. ESG can take it. We welcome the debate as it only makes companies’ convictions stronger. It refreshes their corporate purpose, reminding them why they ...
It’s Time for Companies to Do Less
Every quarter, companies are asked to do more: more measurement, more transformation, more stakeholders, more ratings and rankings, more standards, more purpose, more advocacy, more equity, more revenue, more sustainability, and so on. That’s not without reason. Real threats that were once just do...
Time for a Net Positive Movement
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, sustainability has been confounding expectations. As more CEOs and world leaders recognize the systemic nature of the challenges we face, it is also rising in importance on the corporate and global agenda. On climate 70% of countries, accounting for around 90 p...
CECP’s 2021 Look Ahead: Focusing Corporate Purpose
Photo by Campbell Soup Company 2021 was a tipping point for global challenges—from new COVID-19 variants to racial reckoning to climate change and more. A recent study conducted by the Milken Institute and The Harris Poll finds over half (54%) of the surveyed global citizens said they trust c...
Helping to End Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Photo by Mackenzie Stroh, The Hollywood Reporter Despite increased awareness around the harm of toxic work environments, addressing sexual harassment is still the issue that people say is the most important problem employees currently face in the workplace. In the past decade, it has becom...
Reimagining Value Through Volunteerism
Over the past year and a half, volunteering has taken on new meaning. Its value has been stretched, renewed, and redefined. From community partners to business objectives, what’s become evident over these last 18 months is a deeper need for collaboration, clear communication, and relevant, achieva...
New Partners, New Tech, New Topics – the CECP Giving in Numbers™ 2021 Survey is Live!
The annual CECP Giving in Numbers™ Survey is now live. That means 200+ large global corporations are currently gathering, scrubbing, and finalizing their 2020 data across a number of critical areas – community investment, employee engagement, measurement of their impact, and more – as they pre...
How Disability Inclusion Builds Sustainable Companies
As the country grapples with a pandemic, a racial equality movement and now, civil unrest, business leaders yearn to get back on the road to stability—and fast. This year, CEOs and investors are expected to intensify their focus on the “S” of ESG activities (environmental, social and governanc...
New report from the Global Exchange offers expansive look at how companies are measuring and reporting on their ESG investments
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose© (CECP), in collaboration with its Global Exchange (GX) Country Partners, has released the inaugural Global Impact at Scale: 2020 Edition report in 18 countries around the world. The report marks a new dawn for advocates and practitioners of Environmental, Soc...
CECP’s 2020 Look Ahead: Corporate Purpose Defining Stakeholder Capitalism
Anyone with the idea that CEOs and companies can now stand down with a new Administration has sorely underestimated corporations. They will still fill the role of CEO statespeople Yet, the role of a company will change when a little less rests on their shoulders alone. There is still plenty to do to...
CECP data offer a unique look at social investments before and after 2020
The 2020 edition of Giving in Numbers is here! As always, this year’s report covers trends in corporate social investment and includes a brand-new section on corporate purpose. Given the rapidly changing state of the world during 2020, CECP took steps to ensure that Giving in Numbers data was supp...
Looking Ahead to the 2020 Elections
On September 29th, CECP sent a Pulse Survey to our companies asking if they would be providing support around casting ballots for the general election in November. We are proud to report that 75% of companies have pledged support to employees for voting, such as providing time off. Yet the...
Philip Morris International’s Statement of Purpose Moves a Step Closer to Action & Sets Example for Others
The Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation in August 2019 elicited many “nice start, what’s next?” reactions. In their article, “3 Ways to Put Your Corporate Purpose into Action,” Professor Bob Eccles and his co-authors recommended companies publis...
Company Priorities Drive the Agenda for CECP Accelerate Communities in 2020
Over the past twenty years, and particularly in the midst of challenging times, companies have turned to CECP as a trusted advisory to provide necessary company connection and discussion as well as proprietary data and insights around the role of companies and the strategies they employ. CECP launch...
A Joint Letter: What is the Courageous Opportunity for Companies in this Crisis?
The word ‘crisis’, when written in Chinese characters, consists of two brushstrokes: one for danger, the other for opportunity. The global community is in the middle of an unprecedented cataclysm as it stares down Covid-19. Stemming the economic and humanitarian fallout requires all-hands on dec...
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