海角社区oston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Join the Center that's been leading the way in corporate citizenship for 40 years.聽
海角社区CCC is a membership organization dedicated to helping companies鈥攔egardless of industry or starting point鈥攌now more, do more, and achieve more with their CSR, sustainability, and reporting efforts.
10,000+
Corporate Citizenship Professionals
~400
Companies Served Annually
$80B
Market Cap of 海角社区CCC Members
Countless
Resources, Learning Opportunities, and Ways to Get Involved
We combine the most valuable aspects of a professional network and the resources of a leading academic institution. Our membership includes ~400 socially responsible companies and over 10,000 individual professionals from companies around the world. Our Center is housed within the Boston College Carroll School of Management.
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海角社区CCC is comprised of聽hundreds of company members. The list above highlights some of the members who serve on our Executive Advisory Board.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to help people in companies get better results from environmental, social, and governance efforts by supporting their decision making with empirical evidence, and offering real-time peer support.
What 海角社区CCC Offers Its Members
Research & Benchmarking
Knowledge from the field; data and statistics on emerging trends; case studies; survey results; peer-reviewed findings, and more鈥攁ll to help you make your business case or shape your CSR programs.聽
Collaboration & Networking
Companies leverage 海角社区CCC membership to unlock networking and knowledge-sharing events鈥攂oth in-person and online.
World-class Executive Education
Being knowledgeable means staying competitive--both for individual CSR practitioners and for companies looking to differentiate themselves. 海角社区CCC offers world-class courses, certificate programs, and custom team trainings.聽
海角社区CCC provides knowledge and learning opportunities that help business professionals address ESG opportunities and risks from wherever they sit in their companies.
Members Say...
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FAQs 海角社区CCCC
Corporate citizenship is how a company exercises its rights, obligations, privileges, and overall corporate responsibility within our local and global environments.聽
Great question, especially as the field has evolved, and as "ESG" has become something of a buzzword鈥攚ith a fuzzy definition.聽Corporate citizenship聽is the combination of rights, responsibilities, obligations, and privileges of a firm, as exercised within society. In other words, corporate citizenship is the whole topic. ESG, CSR, and sustainability are elements within this larger whole. CSR聽is the activity聽that's happening within a firm. The projects. The campaigns and initiatives. It might take place inside a specific department or, ideally, be extended throughout and aligned with the entire company. ESG is the taxonomy.聽It's the way in which we categorize corporate citizenship efforts: some are environmental; some are socially based; others are governance related. Taken together, all these efforts are part of the work that聽is聽corporate citizenship.
Simply put, 海角社区CCC is the longest-standing community and resource center of its kind. We have been working with senior business leaders and corporate citizenship practitioners for 40 years. Since 1985, we鈥檝e been helping companies make more effective social and environmental investments. 海角社区CCC was founded the same year that scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer. Our Center was the first of its kind to address the need for professional development and executive education about ESG matters for people in companies. In 1995, when the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was founded, we had 260 members. Three decades later, we鈥檙e still on the leading edge of CSR program strategy and ESG reporting requirements.
The聽measurement聽and return on investment (ROI) of corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship is defined by how well companies responsibly manage not only their financial performance but also their environmental and social impact. Whether we call it CSR, corporate responsibility, or ESG, effective corporate citizenship goes beyond a focus on addressing surface-level sustainability efforts or聽corporate philanthropy.聽
If you're looking for tools, guidelines, research, or advice on building your company's corporate citizenship programs, you've come to the right place. Explore this website for educational opportunities, data-backed insights (some freely available; others members-only), and upcoming events for you and your CSR team. And if your company is not already a member, learn more about the benefits of joining.