About CROA
CROA members transform ideas into action, advancing corporate responsibility (CR), the profession, and their careers.
As the largest independent CR community, CROA supports the concept that to excel, organizations need to embrace multiple responsibility disciplines including sustainability, governance, social responsibility, and philanthropy.
CROA welcomes corporate practitioners, providers of products and services, academics, governments, and non-profits as equal participants. Read more
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WHAT'S NEW?
 Best Practices in Sustainability Reporting, Thursday Feb 2nd, 10am ET Register Now!
Hear how best in class organizations measure impact and performance to accelerate their sustainability strategy. Many organizations today find that financial reporting alone no longer satisfies the needs of investors, governments, supply-chain partners, and other stakeholders for information about overall organizational performance. This requires companies to become increasingly transparent with their sustainability business practices and accountable to performance targets.
Join consulting firm Brown Flynn and sustainability professionals from IT services company Atos International and SAP as they discuss:
- Guidelines and best practices in sustainability reporting
- How to efficiently gather sustainability data & disclose performance to stakeholders
- How companies such as Atos use SAP software to enable better sustainability disclosure and analysis
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Join the 2012 COMMIT!Campaign; Make a Commitment to Change the World!
See How to Participate
Join this webinar hosted by NAEM to learn about the methodology behind CR Magazine's 12-year-old list, known as the world’s top corporate responsibility ranking and recognized by PR Week as one of America's top three most-important business rankings. The methodology, with 324 data points in seven categories, uses publicly available data on Russell 1000 companies. The information is collected by IW Financial with rankings determined by CR Magazine using an open and transparent methodology reviewed annually by a committee of CR practitioners, academics, and other advisers.
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Lawyer Philip K. Howard, author of Life Without Lawyers and founding chairman of the non-profit Common Good, will keynote the 2012 COMMIT!Forum, taking place October 2-3 in New York City.
Howard will articulate his mission of rebuilding reliable legal structures that will permit Americans to use their common sense based on the thesis that making choices for the common good is impossible if everyone is tied up in red tape. Reclaiming responsibility requires a basic shift—where law sets boundaries for free choice instead of dictating choices for the lowest common denominator.
He is just one of the many influential speakers that will headline the 2012 event. Click here for more.
CR Magazine, NYSE Euronext & CROA Reveal Results of 2nd Annual CR Best Practices Survey
Analysis of Findings Released
The findings of this second annual survey of CR professionals, performed earlier this year, provide the CR community with important insights on the state of corporate citizenship, how this has changed year-over-year, and some of the field's best practices. Click here for an executive summary of the 2011 survey results or CROA members click here to log in and download the complete report.
The 2011 survey results, with responses from 300 companies from across 20 industries, build upon the inaugural 2010 survey that set a baseline as the broadest sampling of how companies plan, structure, and budget for corporate responsibility programs ( click here for the 2010 survey results).
CROA recently launched a multi-faceted research and development program on the CR profession. This report summarizes the findings of a specific phase of that program; formulating a snapshot of where the CR field stands today and providing insights on how to mature it. CROA Executive Director Richard Crespin presented the preliminary findings from this report at the BCLC 2011 Citizen Awards finalists lunch on November 17th.
Click here for an overview of the report results. CROA members will be notified once the full report is available online. This report builds off of the Structuring & Staffing CR Guidebook that the CROA Professional Development Committee released earlier this year, available here.
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Outcomes of 2nd Annual Government & Industry Roundtable
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Administrator Dan Gordon, head of federal procurement policy for the White House, challenged participants from across government, industry, non-profit/NGOs, and academia at the July 20th roundtable on how best to account for corporate responsibility in government purchasing in a way that does not disadvantage small businesses or cause disruption to the procurement process.
Click here to join the ResponsibilityWorks LinkedIn group and participate in this important conversation on improving transparency and sustainability in the government supply chain. Join CROA to become a part of the ResponsibilityWorks working group consolidating this input into recommendations.
Click here to learn more about ResponsibilityWorks.
CR Magazine Releases Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting List
This 2nd annual list highlights companies that know that how they provide products and services to government is just as important as the successes they achieve. CR Magazine research shows that overall disclosure performance of government contractors most transparent about their corporate responsibility practices improved by 5% over last year, with 3-year average returns to shareholders outpacing the S&P average by .65 percentage points or 32 percent, proving that transparency pays.
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CROA Empowers Individuals at All Levels to Take Action & Improve CR
Join today!
CROA has expanded to engage individuals at every level of an organization to enhance the role of businesses in society, transitioning from an organization-focused membership to a professional society with individual memberships and organizational underwriters.
This change helps focus the work of the association on the individual corporate responsibility practitioner and allows for strengthening of the profession, in recognition of the increasing interest in and proliferation of this role. CROA will for the first time allow aspiring practitioners to engage as general members, retain its close ties with CR practitioners as practicing members, and continue its multi-stakeholder involvement of corporations, non-profits, government and academic institutions.
Organization members continue to be essential to the ongoing success of CROA as their support provides access to important services and programs. For more about Underwriter Options, please click here.
To join CROA now, please click here.
The single largest gathering of leaders improving business and society!
The 2011 COMMIT!Forum was a great success! Click here to view the media coverage.
Click here to view the 'big ideas' that attendees shared from the show floor!
Make plans now to join us for COMMIT!Forum 2012, October 2-3 in New York City.
Register today!
 Research Alerts
Sign Up now to receive Research Alerts with analysis of the successful practices of these top performers in:
- Climate Change & Environment
- Employee Relations & Human Rights
- Finance & Governance
- Philanthropy
In 2010, CROA sent surveys to every publicly traded company on the NYSE Euronext Exchanges plus CROA members and CR Magazine subscribers seeking their answers to questions about how they budget, structure, and plan for their CR Programs. Simultaneously, the CROA’s Professional Development Committee engaged in a structured review of how companies organize the function and the responsibilities they delegate to CR professionals. This Guidebook brings these two efforts together in a helpful resource.
 Twitter Chat: Results of COMMIT!Forum Debate on Value of CR
Recap Available!
Members of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens and CROA have vitally important stories to tell about how their companies have made real commitments to corporate citizenship, transparency, and accountability. We are excited to help share these stories with you! View videos on programs from across the CR spectrum, different industries, around the world.
CROA and CR Magazine have partnered with Causecast, the premier cause integration platform for nonprofits and brands, on launching the public beta of Cause Integration Profiles to promote and syndicate the listings of socially responsible companies such as CR Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens list. These Cause Integration Profiles are open to any company interested in enhancing the visibility of their CSR initiatives, the causes they support and the grants offered by their foundations.
The idea of saving on energy can seem like an abstract and daunting concept. Where do you begin?
Enter EDF Climate Corps. Every summer, the EDF Climate Corps program trains and places highly-qualified MBA students in leading companies to turn this seemingly overwhelming task into tangible, clear tips everyone can use in the workplace. See the top 12 energy efficiency tips EDF fellows have identified over the past three years.
Call for CROA Committee Members...
CROA Members have the opportunity to join one of our active committees, let us know if interested!
- Rankings & Ratings Methodology Committee provides input into CR Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking methodology.
- Research Committee working groups advise on research initiatives such as the Responsible Supply Chain Research Study or CR Best Practices Survey.
- Professional Development Committee is developing the CR practitioner body of knowledge, looking at the knowledge, skills and attributes required and their prevalence, as well as exploring a CR professional code of ethics.
- ResponsibilityWorks Government Roundtable is focused on improviding transparency and responsibility in the government supply chain.
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Check out these past webinars...
CR Best Practices
Results of the 2nd Annual CR Magazine/ NYSE Euronext Survey
We surveyed every publicly traded company on the NYSE Euronext indexes as well as the CROA and CR Magazine databases...the results are in! Learn how: CR leaders are structuring, staffing and funding their programs; CEOs and boards are engaging in CR; and how CR is impacting profitability and competitive advantage.
Hear the findings from this FREE webinar now!
How can companies organize CR for success?
What kinds of leaders hold CR positions?
What knowledge, skills, and attributes should those leaders possess?
View FREE webinar online now!
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