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Nikayla Scott
The author at the launch party for his new book, “Dreams Deferred,” which recounts his struggle to overcome economic hardship and break into corporate philanthropy and social impact.
From 2008 to 2013, like a lot of other people, I experienced personal challenges due to the great recession and its fallout. I struggled to find work, watched helplessly as my mother passed away, and became closely acquainted with hunger and despair. As a down-on-my-luck, unpaid intern, I even found myself searching the streets of San Francisco for a spot to sleep.
Now that I work in “corporate social responsibility,” I often reflect on those years because those experiences helped shape my vision of a better world and inspired my desire to help build it.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Is Shifting As a Result of 2020 s Triple Crisis
By Carolyn Berkowitz, President & CEO, Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP)
Published 03-08-21
Submitted by Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals
No profession has remained untouched by the three crises of 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting economic downturn, and the reckoning with racial injustice. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is no exception. This past year shined a bright light on the increasing importance of corporations redefining their value to society and expanding their commitment to all stakeholders - customers, employees, regulators, investors, and the communities in which they work. Over the past several years, the focus on corporate responsibility has grown as data demonstrates that long-term financial success is inextricably linked to how companies respond to both social and market shifts.
Making the Case for CSR, a toolkit aimed at corporate citizenship professionals.
Making the Case for CSR is an online resource that includes curated, recent statistics from 25 sources and presents them in easy-to-use data points and infographics. This toolkit equips industry executives with a powerful and compelling data-driven case for corporate social responsibility (CSR) critical to gaining support and representing the interests of key stakeholders, including consumers, employees, CEOs and Board members, and investors. The kit is available via download from ACCP.
“A global pandemic, the racial justice movement, and an economic downturn place corporate social responsibility at the forefront of the business world,” said Carolyn Berkowitz, president and CEO of ACCP. “Stakeholder expectations of what it means to be a good corporate citizen and drive social and environmental impact have never been higher. The