Learn about how Midwest-based companies are trying to maximize their social, environmental, and financial returns.
Whether your work is regional, national, or global, the structure and approach that you use to activate local giving can have a big impact on your effectiveness.
Join us for a tactical conversation on how to make your community a better place to live through investments in programs and partnerships that promote healthy lifestyles.
Explore the ins and outs of communication, how to craft effective messaging and share the great corporate philanthropy work that you do through various channels.
Corporate Insights into the CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity presents an update on what has been heard from corporate leaders in response to the A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity and what it means for what comes next.
Implementing a CSR or corporate foundation strategy may be even harder than developing it. Our learning brief provides best practices and tools to help corporate foundation and CSR leaders advance their strategy. Learn how to overcome common obstacles by applying structured, data-driven processes that transform your corporate societal engagement portfolio.
A companion to Simplifying Strategy and developed in partnership with CECP, this brief outlines key design steps that leaders and teams can take to advance their initial strategy choices.
This strategy toolkit, developed in partnership with CECP, identifies three tools for clarifying your strategy and transforming your portfolio.
This research report aims to meet that need, by presenting the corporate philanthropy community with an analysis of current measurement studies, models, and evidence drawn from complementary business disciplines as well as from the social sector.
Giving in Numbers™: 2023 Edition examines 2022 trends in corporate community investments and employee engagement. Society’s expectations that companies will be a force for good both internally and externally are at an all-time high and companies’ awareness of this is reflected in the multiple acronyms they commonly use to describe their corporate purpose strategies. These include Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI), and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG). Many companies are meeting the challenge. Simultaneously, anti-ESG rhetoric has shifted the focus away from stakeholders and social impact departments must continually prove their programs’ value while also navigating a thorny political landscape. Moreover, last year was a time of rebuilding, with many companies and organizations revisiting their social impact strategies after the pandemic and relevant staffing changes.
This resource provides an overview of important topics and distinctions among the three primary forms of corporate philanthropy: corporate giving programs, corporate foundations, and corporate donor-advised funds (DAFs).
A business may choose any one of these approaches to its philanthropy or use a combination of these structures to achieve its goals. This information is provided by Ask CMF – a technical assistance service of the Council of Michigan Foundations – for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.
