Has your company made a place at the table for corporate citizenship?

During these turbulent times, more companies are discovering the financial and reputational advantages that come with a solid commitment to corporate citizenship. Don’t fall behind as competitors create new business strategies, management processes and stakeholder relationships to meet new societal expectations placed on companies. Read the rest of this entry »

The trucks may be brown on the outside, but UPS is taking steps to let customers add a tinge of green to the cargo they carry inside.

For pennies a package, UPS customers can now offset the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the transport of their packages within the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

It may be hard to believe but the people who created generations of couch potatoes are now reaching out to mobilize those sedentary spuds and turn “Must see TV” into “Must do TV.”

The Entertainment Industry Foundation has enlisted major broadcast networks, including Center members ABC, CBS and NBC, for a groundbreaking initiative designed to inspire a new era of service and volunteerism as part of the foundation’s multi-year campaign called “iParticipate.” Read the rest of this entry »

Companies in the financial sector tumbled to the bottom of the Boston College-Reputation Institute 2009 CSR Index (CSRI) while top consumer brands perceived to be strong in the area of ethics, citizenship and workplace practices dominate the top 50, with Disney and Microsoft at the top. Read the rest of this entry »

“You can’t manage unless you measure” is an old saying that has brought numerous experts on sustainability indicators to work together and create the Community Indicator Consortium, a learning network of organizations and individuals interested in the field of community indicators and their application.

More than 200 experts from government, NGOs, business and community organizations attended this year’s annual conference, held in Bellevue, Wash., Oct.1-2, where the theme was “Community Indicators as Tools for Social Change: Tracking Change and Increasing Accountability.” Issues discussed varied from alternatives to GDP as a measure of economic success to linking community quality of life to performance measures. Read the rest of this entry »

PR News has issued a call for entries in its annual Corporate Social Responsibility Awards program. The entry deadline is November 13, 2009.

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Take it from FedEx and the Red Cross: When you absolutely, positively need to be prepared for a disaster or other emergency, you better do more than cross your fingers.

According to research from the American Red Cross, only about 12 percent of Americans are reasonably ready for a disaster. Do More Than Cross Your Fingers is a public awareness campaign featuring games, video and tools to help people build and personalize an emergency kit, make a plan and take simple steps to get prepared. Read the rest of this entry »

Many community involvement practitioners suffer from the nagging feeling that their employee volunteer programs are good but not yet great. However, their attempts at improvement have been hampered by the absence of useful benchmarking information and the absence of a guiding management framework capable of predicting success. How can you move your employee volunteer program from good to great? Read the rest of this entry »