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Seven Steps Towards Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/25/2015

Successful companies now recognize that philanthropy is a key component of corporate citizenship and overall business strategy. To create a strategic corporate philanthropy program, or improve an existing one, consider these seven steps offered by Bruce DeBoskey, a teaching fellow of Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship.

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Corporate Giving

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Corporate philanthropy/CSR

Volunteering: What Could Go Wrong?

Release Date:

03/25/2015

A lot, it turns out. Not all volunteer activities are equally helpful, and it can be surprisingly difficult for your nonprofit partners to be candid about what they need (and don’t need). The next time your company considers volunteering as a team-building or employee engagement strategy, consider the constraints and preferences of the nonprofit agency you have in mind.

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Corporate Giving

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Corporate philanthropy/CSR

Member Spotlight: Staunton Farm

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03/16/2015

Behavioral Health for All Joni Schwager, executive director of the Staunton Farm Foundation, recently published an excellent article for Grantmakers in Health’s Views From the Field, in which she addressed how behavioral health affects the work of...