SHIFT- Meeting Corporate Philanthropy Where It’s Headed- Influencers: CSR
THE INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON CORPORATE GIVING You’ve heard me use the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is the increase in the number of corporations attemping to define and implement their CSR that is also influencing corporate philanthropy. Corporate Social Responsibility is not a new concept. It actually has been an ‘activity’ of corporations […]
SHIFT: Meeting Corporate Philanthropy Where It’s Headed- An Introduction
This is the start of a four week series on corporate philanthropy, based on research, best practices and personal experience from the field. We’ll keep it entertaining and packed with good useful information that will help you develop your own Corporate Giving program. To follow along, bookmark and check back daily, or subscribe to the […]
Use these mid winter months to GROW, not slow, your organizations philanthropy
Most nonprofits experience a significant lull in donations and donor activity in the months of January and February. The post year end doldrums. Donors are slow to give, having distributed their 2010 charitable contributions during the ebullience of the holiday season. Consumers are recovering from gift purchases. The weather makes for hermits, with snow, ice […]
Passion, in the boardroom, gives birth to a fundraising high
Fundraising for an organization on which a person serves as a board member is a core component of their role. Why? Because a boards role is to govern and act as fiduciary authority for the protection of the organization. According to a Grant Thornton report from 2008, boards spent 30% of their time on Strategic […]
“Locard’s Exchange Principle” or “Some armchair philosophy to start your morning”
When someone comes in contact with another person or place, something of that person is left behind, and something is taken away. “Locard’s Exchange Principle” Edmund Locard was a 20th century forensic scientist and director of the first crime lab in Lyon, France in 1910. His theory postulates that wherever two things meet, evidence exists […]
Visionary Leadership
I’ve been asked to speak on visionary leadership. I’m still deciding if I have anything cogent to say on this topic. The term “visionary leader” is tossed out like so much corporate slang today. But is it an accurate representation of the sentiment hoped to be communicated? The encyclopedia defines leadership as an individual’s capacity to motivate others […]
And it’s scientifically proven….carrot? stick? Neither.
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