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.

Latest News

The Conference Board Business and Sustainability Conference Taking Place June 17-18
The conference will focus on leading global environmental initiatives; it will be sponsored by Mars, Incorporated and ExxonMobil.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Corporate Community Involvement Conference
Best Practices for Doing More With Less in Your Corporate Community Involvement Program

Innovative Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Seminars: Building Successful Partnerships

Councils

Asia-Pacific Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Council
This council is designed for senior executives in charge of corporate social responsibility, citizenship and sustainability programs in the Asia-Pacific region.

Community and Public Issues Council
The council provides an interactive, off-the-record forum for members to exchange ideas and discuss current problems and issues with respect to community affairs programming.

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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.

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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
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.		The 2008 Corporate Contributions Report This annual survey indicates that charitable giving by companies and corporate foundations grew at a moderate rate in FY 2007 and outpaced corporate profits.
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