Citizenship & Sustainability Programs

Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability

Citizenship and sustainability - sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility - are new business realities. In today's marketplace, companies wishing to improve their long-term competitiveness, profitability, and market valuation must be effective in integrating citizenship and sustainability into core business strategy. Markets, customers, regulators, Boards, and society-at-large are demanding it.

At the same time, new business opportunities are being created by accelerating demand for sustainable products and services. The question executives are now grappling with is not whether, but how, to convert citizenship and sustainability from a nice way of doing business into a source of real business value.

The Conference Board offers a wide range of opportunities for our members to increase their knowledge, grow their competencies, and improve their practices in this important and challenging new business area. We invite you to join us.

Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability

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The following is a listing of all our Citizenship & Sustainability products and services including those from our Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability. Center specific products and services are only available to Center members. For more information about our Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability center and to join click here.

Latest News

Corporate Contributions Holding Steady
International grantmaking by U.S. companies continues to increase.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Global Business and Education Conference

Business and Sustainable Development Conference

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Councils

Community and Public Issues Council
The council provides an interactive, off-the-record forum for members to exchange ideas and discuss current problems and issues with respect to community affairs programming.

Contributions Council II
Discusses best practices, trends, and cutting-edge issues in corporate philanthropy, social involvement, and citizenship.

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Research Working Group

Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China
This working group will provide companies with the opportunity to meet with corporate peers and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholder leaders to build relationships and learn from one another.

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.		Bridging the Logistical Divide: Integration of Poor Countries in Global Supply Chains This report analyzes the reasons behind the lagging development of the world's poorest countries and offers some solutions for conquering the divide to help those nations achieve sustainable growth.
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Research Reports
The 2008 Corporate Contributions Report This annual survey indicates that charitable giving by companies and corporate foundations grew at a moderate rate in FY 2007 and outpaced corporate profits.		Corporate Responses to Humanitarian Disasters: The Mutual Benefits of Private-Humanitarian Cooperation This report provides a detailed overview of the new model of corporate-humanitarian cooperation.
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