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We are pleased to present The State of Community Investment in Canada Webinar—a 60 minute session that showcases the research findings of a recently released report entitled Canadian Corporate Community Investment Benchmarking Report. The webinar brings the report data to life with the insights you need to deal with today’s community investment environment. Michael Bassett, report author and Senior Research Associate and Paul Forgues, Senior Manager of the Board’s Corporate Community Investment Council will walk you through the research findings. The webinar will answer your key questions about the state of community investment in Canada.
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April 2013
| The Conference Board of Canada
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This report summarizes a 2012 Canadian survey of corporate community investment programs. Among other topics, it looks at staffing levels, motivations, and types of contributions and recipients.
Report
| 65 pages |
April 2013
| Michael Bassett
| The Conference Board of Canada
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The Conference Board of Canada presents a special webinar that features thought leader Coro Strandberg and Bernie Mitchell, Vice-President, Human Resources at The Co-operators. The Role of HR in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability is a one-hour webinar that will benefit HR practitioners and directors, presidents, corporate directors and CSR practitioners who want to understand how HR can build a high-performance sustainability culture.
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March 2013
| The Conference Board of Canada
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How are companies addressing what they have defined as their corporate sustainability responsibilities? This report provides an answer through a multifaceted examination of current sustainability practices.
Report
| 84 pages |
February 2013
| Thomas Singer
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Conference Board of Canada presents a special webinar that features thought leader Coro Strandberg and Bob Elton, an experienced Corporate Director. The Board’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability is a one-hour session that will benefit corporate directors, corporate secretaries and CSR practitioners who want to understand the emerging fiduciary and board oversight role in corporate non-financial performance.
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February 2013
| The Conference Board of Canada
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The Conference Board of Canada presents a special 60 minute webinar that features thought leader Coro Strandberg and John Coyne of Unilever Canada Inc. In this information-rich session, you will learn about new global research that identifies the characteristics of a transformational company—including the qualities that firms must adopt to be sustainable over the long term.
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January 2013
| The Conference Board of Canada
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This report analyzes the most recent disclosure of environmental and social practices by 3,000 U.S. and non-U.S. public companies that compose the Bloomberg ESG 3000 index.
Research Report
| 176 pages |
July 2012
| Thomas Singer, Matteo Tonello
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report examines how American corporations collectively describe their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities based on an analysis of data collected from 103 Fortune 500 websites.
Director Notes
| 9 pages |
April 2012
| Amy O'Connor, Michelle Shumate
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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What actions are companies taking in China to support the country's sustainable development imperatives?
Report
| 64 pages |
December 2011
| David J. Vidal, Anke Schrader, David Hoffman, Kaying Lau
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report is based on the 2011 edition of The Conference Board Corporate Contributions Survey, which gathered data on charitable contributions made by U.S.-based companies in FY2010.
Report
| 64 pages |
November 2011
| Matteo Tonello, Judit Torok
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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For CEOs in China, the challenge of sustainability was ranked higher than anywhere else in the world. But how will business meet this challenge?
Executive Action
| 11 pages |
November 2011
| Anke Schrader
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report highlights issues to consider when approaching the task of overseeing a sustainability strategy.
Report
| 92 pages |
October 2011
| Matteo Tonello
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report discusses the issues surrounding corporate philanthropy and provides practical recommendations to companies and boards for increasing the accountability and transparency of corporate giving programs.
Executive Action
| 9 pages |
August 2011
| Baruch Lev, Christine Petrovits, Suresh Radhakrishnan
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report documents some of the potential bottom-line benefits to companies of being attentive to CSR: reducing cost and risk, gaining competitive advantage, developing and maintaining legitimacy and reputational capital, and achieving win-win outcomes.
Executive Action
| 7 pages |
June 2011
| Archie Carroll, Kareem Shabana
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Directors College presented this webinar featuring Coro Strandberg, Principal, Strandberg Consulting and Associate, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and Adine Mees, President and CEO, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. This webinar will be of interest to those directors on boards who seek to understand their emerging fiduciary role with respect to providing oversight over their company’s non-financial performance. Increasingly social and environmental factors are becoming material to shareholder value and good governance practice is evolving to address the board’s mandate in this area.
Recorded Webinar
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May 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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To protect a company's integrity, there must be a strong ethics, compliance, and integrity program in place—one that is fully integrated into the organization’s mission, strategy, and operations.
Executive Action Report
| 11 pages |
April 2011
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report discusses what to communicate (i.e., message content) and where (i.e., message channel), as well as the major factors (internal and external to the organization) that affect the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility communication.
Executive Action Report
| 11 pages |
March 2011
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report, which is based on the analysis of 163 articles from the most relevant empirical literature on the subject, offers a number of practical recommendations to business leaders embarking in CSR programs for their companies.
Executive Action Report
| 10 pages |
February 2011
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Despite formal assignment of responsibilities to top business leaders, many companies still lack the structural framework to enable proper director oversight of corporate sustainability.
Executive Action Report
| 20 pages |
June 2010
| Matteo Tonello
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This webcast discussed why GRI is gaining ground, especially among mainstream financial institutions and how GRI helps companies manage and measure their sustainability strategies.
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June 2010
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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