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

Corporate Learning Strategies & Practices Seminars
Transforming and Advancing Learning: New Trends, the Latest Tools and Recent Challenges

Global Business and Education Conference
Maximizing Global Talent

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Councils

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.

Contributions Council
Provides leadership to advance the practice of coporate philanthropy, and to underscore its importance to corporations and society.

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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.

Webcasts

Business Ethics

Webcast

Conference KeyNotes: Shared Services
Achieving Continuous Process Improvement, Driving Operational Efficiency, and Increasing Value

Conference KeyNotes: Enterprise Risk Management

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Ready or Not: Companies and the Sustainability Tipping Point The challenge for companies is how to make sustainability-centric approaches deliver not only on the financial bottom line but also on a broader platform of ecological and social accountabilities and goals that make up the sustainability blend.		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.
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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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