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Do Corporate Responsibility “Best Practices” Really Exist?

Submitted by kgilliam on Tue, 2012-02-21 21:26.

In short, no.

Although there are a growing number of examples of “successful practices”. More often than not, companies are still sorting out what CR really means for them. While companies have an important role to play in tackling some of our most pressing challenges, each company’s CR strategy has to make sense for their industry, their business model, and the identity of their individual organization. So rarely does CR look the same at different companies. Moreover, this remains a nascent field, making it a little early declare any practice “best”.

Finding & Supporting New Models of Collaboration for Good

Submitted by kgilliam on Wed, 2012-01-25 15:39.

Following up on last week’s blog post about how, in the midst of the economic downturn, the best corporate citizens built more successful ways of working with governments and NGOs, we now look at how to help organizations establish them by shining a light on real-world examples and providing a platform for connecting with potential partners.

At the 2011 COMMIT!Forum we highlighted several new models of collaboration. Two of my personal favorites were the work done by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Compass Group to alleviate slave-like working conditions for migrant workers in Florida and that of Western Union and USAID to establish an African Diaspora Marketplace to harness the wealth and entrepreneurialism of this community to jump-start new businesses in Africa itself...

Leveraging Deficits: How the Best Corporate Citizens drove more effective cross-sector collaboration during the Great Recession

Submitted by kgilliam on Thu, 2012-01-19 14:07.

In last week's blog post, I pointed to the emergence of a "renaissance" in how companies, NGOs, and governments are collaborating to tackle some of our toughest challenges. This week I'm going to look in-depth at the specific new models and practices we're seeing emerge.

Throughout 2011 we looked for successful practices in cross-sector collaboration by examining commitments made as part of the annual COMMIT!Campaign and by talking with CR Magazine’s Best Corporate Citizens. There were stark differences in the way these organizations engage with NGOs and governments as compared with most companies and donors. The best:

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Do Corporate Responsibility “Best Practices” Really Exist?

Finding & Supporting New Models of Collaboration for Good

Leveraging Deficits: How the Best Corporate Citizens drove more effective cross-sector collaboration during the Great Recession