Citizenship & Sustainability Programs

Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability

Citizenship and sustainability - sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility - are new business realities. In today's marketplace, companies wishing to improve their long-term competitiveness, profitability, and market valuation must be effective in integrating citizenship and sustainability into core business strategy. Markets, customers, regulators, Boards, and society-at-large are demanding it.

At the same time, new business opportunities are being created by accelerating demand for sustainable products and services. The question executives are now grappling with is not whether, but how, to convert citizenship and sustainability from a nice way of doing business into a source of real business value.

The Conference Board offers a wide range of opportunities for our members to increase their knowledge, grow their competencies, and improve their practices in this important and challenging new business area. We invite you to join us.

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The following is a listing of all our Citizenship & Sustainability products and services including those from our Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability. Center specific products and services are only available to Center members. For more information about our Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability center and to join click here.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Global Business and Education Conference
Maximizing Global Talent

Corporate Community Involvement Conference

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Councils

Business/Education Council
Forum for discussions among corporate executives and academic leaders, focusing on their involvement with public education, preschool, K-12, education reform, and literacy.

European Council on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
The Conference Board’s European Council on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability provides senior executives of companies based in Europe with a programme and meeting place through which to deepen their knowledge, sharpen their skills and share expe

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Research Working Group

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China
This working group will provide companies with the opportunity to meet with corporate peers and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholder leaders to build relationships and learn from one another.

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Webcasts

Business Ethics

Webcast

Conference KeyNotes: Corporate Security, Business Continuity and Crisis Management
Strategies to Limit Risk and Protect Core Assets

Conference KeyNotes: Extending Your Brand to Employees
Energizing Employees to “Own” the Brand

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Key Questions in Pandemic Planning This report addresses questions of concern to business managers across sectors, industries, and regions in light of the current resurgence of a global pandemic health threat.		The Potential Economic Impact of the 2009 A(H1N1) Influenza (Swine Flu) Pandemic While it's too early to determine the ultimate scope of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic, a comparison to the 2003 SARS outbreak shows the economic impact may be short-lived and will not significantly alter long-term trends in global macro economic activity
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Research Reports
The 2009 Corporate Contributions Report Responses to this year's edition of The Conference Board Annual Survey on Corporate Contributions indicate that for companies for which we have multi-year data, U.S. charitable giving declined in FY 2008, while international giving increased.		Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.
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