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Corporate Social Impact Centre

Upskill to guide your organisation to greater heights in driving social and environmental change in the community

USD $500 million

The amount pledged by a group of 60 CFOs to be invested toward the SDGs over the next five years.

(Click here to read more about this UN Global Compact task force)

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Welcome to the Corporate Social Impact Centre

This Centre is a resource to support CSR and sustainability professionals as you navigate the change and innovation processes and lead impact delivery in your organisations.

The goal of the centre is to empower you to articulate and establish your leadership in the face of both internal and external complexities while delivering impact that not only aligns with, but even scales, business values and goals.

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Understand different approaches in corporate social impact

Corporate Social Responsibility

Employee Engagement

Corporate Foundation

Inclusive Business

Corporate Impact Fund

Corporate Social Impact Accelerator

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Introduction to Inclusive Business

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Developing and Scaling Inclusive Business Models

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Building and Scaling Corporate Social Impact Through Employee Engagement

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Building your inclusive business: How to identify funders

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Growing your Inclusive Business

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What is Corporate Social Impact and Why Now

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Leading Transformation

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Inclusive Business

Companies may choose to adopt an inclusive business model or approach that provides goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis to people living at the base of the pyramid (BoP). Depending on the nature and size of the organisation, companies can do this by directly incorporating the BoP in their core value chain, or by piloting inclusive business initiatives through their corporate impact efforts.

Adapted from: Inclusive Business Action Network (IBAN)

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Improving Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation

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Improving the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Healthcare

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Intention to Action: Empowering a More Gender Equal Asia Module 2

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Intention to Action: Empowering a More Gender Equal Asia Module 1

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Improving Education Outcomes

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Ask the Expert: SDG Impact Standards with Jeremy Nicholls

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Ask the Expert: IMM and Impact Finance Integration with Mike McCreless

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Systems Change in Philanthropy Development

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Introduction to Inclusive Business

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Developing and Scaling Inclusive Business Models

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Building and Scaling Corporate Social Impact Through Employee Engagement

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IMM module 3: Managing Impact Performance

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Creating Shared Value Through Inclusive Business Strategies

By CSR Asia

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This paper by CSR Asia outlines how inclusive business (IB) strategies can create shared value and walks through practical steps companies can take to develop an effective IB strategy. It makes a case for inclusive business and demonstrates how companies can leverage aspects of their value chain to create opportunities for low-income communities. You will also find a number of case studies from around the Asia region.

Corporate Foundation

Corporate foundations (or company-sponsored foundations) are philanthropic organisations that are created and financially supported by a corporation. The foundation is created as a separate legal entity from the corporation, but with close ties to the corporation. Corporate foundations tend to make grants in fields related to their corporate activities or in communities where the corporation operates, or where their employees reside.

Source: Council of Foundations

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Corporate Social Impact Accelerator

Companies may establish Social Impact Accelerators to help enterprises looking to address a social problem over an extended period of time with a mix of financial and non-financial support, including seed funding, mentorship, training, networking and working space.

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Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is any formally organised support or encouragement from companies to leverage employee time, knowledge, skills or other resources to support impact organisations. Employee engagement can vary from corporate volunteering (hands-on or skill-based, virtual or on-site volunteering) and/or corporate giving (payroll giving, employee matching) to co-investment programmes.

Source: EVPA, 2018

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to strategies that companies put into action as part of corporate governance that are designed to ensure the company’s operations are ethical and beneficial for society. These may include initiatives to support the environment, fair labour practices, philanthropy and/or sustainable business practices.

Adapted from: Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

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Corporate Impact Fund

Corporate impact funds enable companies to make investments that are aligned with and amplified by their strategic priorities, market position and resources in order to generation measurable and mutually reinforcing social, environmental and financial returns and outcomes.

Adapted from: Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), 2021

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