Social & Community Impact
Maximising positive societal impact
Overview
Businesses play an integral role in society and carry a unique set of relationships and responsibilities to a wide range of stakeholders. The changing nature of these relationships and the social issues that companies and their stakeholders face have a direct impact on a company’s ability to create and sustain value.
We work with companies to create, implement and measure social and community impact strategies. Our approach to impact measurement is rooted in our long track record for best practice impact measurement via B4SI – the global standard for measuring corporate community investment. We help our clients understand, measure and improve their broader socio-economic and value chain impacts beyond community investment, from job creation and procurement to consumer health and well-being.
Relevant Client Work
City of London
Creating the Business Case for Volunteering
How we support our clients
Assessing social risks, issues, and impacts across operations and value chains
Building understanding of key issues through deep stakeholder engagement
Designing and implementing an enterprise-wide and/or issue-specific (e.g., human rights, DEI, health & wellbeing, financial inclusion) social impact strategy
Creating signature initiatives aligned with core mission and capabilities
Developing standardised impact measurement frameworks
Communicating change through meaningful metrics
Leveraging the B4SI framework, tools and network
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Related Insights
Corporate Community Investment: Four Routes to Impact
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B4SI Global Annual Review 2020
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Hard Outcomes or Hollow Promises? Realising the True Impact of Corporate Community Investment
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Flagship Social Investment Programmes
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