Corporate Responsibility

Corporate citizenship strategy is grounded in a deep understanding of your purpose and the diverse expectations of your stakeholders, including employees. We help you develop your corporate citizenship goals, develop the roadmap to building a high impact portfolio of initiatives and programs, and strengthen your relationships with stakeholders.

We’re often engaged to evaluate corporate citizenship work. All our evaluation services take a customized approach—using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods—to harness evaluation and learning for your diverse stakeholders. We provide actionable insights and build internal capacity to carry on learning efforts.

Along with strong leadership, sound management, effective tools, adaptability, and a values-driven culture, accomplishing your goals takes collaborative muscle. We help you identify your strengths and opportunities for growth to determine how you can best partner with others to achieve your shared aims.

We work with corporate funders on a wide variety of giving programs. Our experienced staff members design, develop, implement, and manage grantmaking efforts. We help you administer grants efficiently, communicate with grantees and grantseekers, and align your grantmaking with other funder objectives.

Tackling complex issues demands integrated action, informed by deep listening, intentional engagement, critical analysis, and bold approaches. To help you achieve your corporate citizenship goals for lasting impact, we design integrated initiatives: strategic endeavors that meaningfully choreograph multiple program components and are responsive to community needs.

Relationships are essential for impact. We help you build authentic, expansive, and productive relationships with the stakeholders critical to your work in corporate citizenship. We begin with stakeholder mapping, plan your strategy for engagement, identify the touchpoints for ongoing and fruitful partnership, and bolster feedback loops.

At all stages of work in corporate citizenship—designing a complex initiative, embarking on an organizational change in direction, or creating a suite of materials—strategic communication is essential. We create communication plans that make your voice heard, identifying your messages, messengers, audiences, and channels.

An engaged and effective corporate foundation board helps ensure the foundation is aligning with and supporting the company’s purpose and corporate citizenship goals while ensuring the foundation is observing self-dealing restrictions. We work with companies of all sizes, advising the board on the foundation’s role and approach.

Surface the hypotheses and assumptions underpinning your work. How will you get from here to your goals? We lay out the steps by which your corporate citizenship work will lead to impact. Articulating a Theory of Change and indicators of success are essential to establishing a shared vision for priorities, evaluation, partnerships, and resources.

We have deep experience with companies committed to their corporate citizenship efforts. We map the key players, relationships, and trends essential for your unique mission. We collect data and connect you to the perspectives of diverse actors—including those most impacted within the community. We help you find the most effective ways you can make a difference.