CECP Insights Blog

July 29, 2014–We were pleased to see the New York Timespiece, “Motivating Corporations to Do Good’ (7/15/2014). At CECP, founded in 1999 by Paul Newman and leading CEOs to do exactly that, we work with a coalition of 150 CEOs who are leading businesses in an increasingly transparent climate. But what truly motivates companies to […]

July 2, 2014–The millennial generation is passionate about societal involvement, and companies are taking notice. At the 2014 CECP Board of Boards Roundtable, CEOs identified employees as the most influential stakeholder group in deciding whether to expand their companies’ community investment. CECP data show that 86% of companies match employee gifts, and that the median […]

May 22, 2014— Imagine you’re eleven. You live in Rio. You absolutely love school. It’s a safe place where you are free to learn, engage with your peers, and grow. But suddenly you hear about plans to demolish the school building. In its place will be a parking lot for a local stadium.   What […]

Note from CECP: Kristin Giantris will be speaking about her organization’s State of the Sector Survey on the New Models for Supporting a Shovel-Ready Third Sector panel at the CECP Summit May 20-21. May 12, 2014– On the day Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) opened its annual State of the Sector Survey, a water main burst […]

April 10, 2014– At CECP, we have the privilege of talking to more than 100 leaders in corporate citizenship and community investment per quarter, and one of the common challenges we hear is the difficulty in sharing the company’s community impact and opportunities for engagement with its closest audience: its employees. What makes this so challenging? […]

February 3,  2014– As corporate leaders, we have a responsibility to represent all of our stakeholders in the most enlightened way possible.  This means meaningfully promoting the interests of our employees, customers, consumers, and communities, as well as the needs of our shareholders. It is not an easy job.  But it is an important one. We […]

January 8, 2014–Integrated Reporting—the combination of financial and non-financial performance in a single report—is based on the principle that any organization can maximize value by serving the interest of all stakeholders and should not be limited to financial return only. Recent studies show that 80 percent of an organizations value is ‘hidden’ in non-financial assets […]

November 28, 2013–Why not kick off the holidays in the same way retail stores take part in Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with a day devoted to giving?  #GivingTuesday will be celebrating its second year on Tuesday, December 3, following Thanksgiving. Created as a national day of giving, #GivingTuesday encourages partners to create and commit […]

October 3, 2013–With summer vacations behind us and a slight chill in the air, the time is ripe to roll up our sleeves and approach the challenges ahead of us with a clear mind and unencumbered ambitions. For corporate leaders focused on addressing pressing community issues related to their business such as workforce readiness, education, […]

August 30, 2013–If you are one of the 2.7 billion people in the world with internet access, you may have read last week that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg brought to life a website called Internet.org to announce the details of a new partnership among seven technology giants with the shared goal to bring internet access to […]

August 16, 2013–Peter Buffett’s New York Times Op-Ed piece “The Charitable-Industrial Complex” reads like the diary of an early explorer, a mix of insightful and simplistic observations of the new world he’s been thrust into as co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation: the wild territory at the intersection of money, politics, and highly-complex societal problems. For […]

July 16, 2013—There are two basic models of corporate philanthropy. The charity model: write a check to a health clinic that fights AIDS or a school that focuses on educating girls, you’ve helped your community, you’re done. This approach is simple to do, and certainly a lot of good comes from it. But there’s a […]

July 12, 2013 — In early 2012, Philanthropy New York began working with Reimagining Service to bring its core mission and principles to our members, a mix of traditional grantmakers and corporate philanthropists. As stated in the blog by Gail Gershon of Gap Inc., that initial session generated robust conversations on the value of foundations […]