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Ensuring an Accurate Count

We wouldn’t want an airline pilot to fly without their glasses, and we wouldn’t want our companies to make strategic decisions without accurate information. Every 10 years, the United States...

Young Americans Face Early Challenges to Financial Security New research by the Principal® Foundation explores the financial attitudes and behaviors of young Americans

More than half of Americans under the age of 30 have already hit financial rock bottom spurred by mental health challenges, job loss and debt, according to new research by...

The Future of Corporate Foundations Accelerate Community: A Report from CECP's First Meeting

In CECP’s 2019 Giving in Numbers survey, roughly 80% of companies reported having a corporate foundation, and of those companies, the average number of foundations a company operated was 3....

The Long-Term Imperative: How Companies Can Respond

On November 7, 2019, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) and Edelman hosted a webinar titled Communicating Long-Term Plans: Best Practices and Examples from the Industry, which can be accessed here. The...

CECP’s 2020 Look Ahead

As companies settle in this world of “corporate purpose”, 2020 will focus on what those purpose statements mean—moving from words to action. Strength will be in solutions, not rhetoric. Stakeholders...

Launching Investing in Society 2019: The Current State of Corporate Purpose

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of CECP – now, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. Corporate Purpose became part of our name over the past year, marking...

Mind the Gap: Business Impact

For data-lovers, too many metrics is still not enough. That said, no matter how many ways you run the numbers, each day has 24 hours, each week 7 days, each...

Back to Where it All Began

The below post is from CECP’s forthcoming book on the history of the organization Paul Newman was worried. In 1982, he’d started his own food company, Newman’s Own, Inc., to...

Listening and learning from our employees to drive greater social impact

3M benchmarks annually against the world’s greatest companies to ensure we empower our people with game-changing community engagement programs. CECP recently released their annual report on trends in corporate community relations:...

How to Talk to Your Kids About the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

With 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg making headlines with her recent UN speech on climate change, you may have noticed that kids today are more environmentally and socially conscious. If...