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CSRwire Talkback is where thought leaders and socially conscious readers meet to discuss today's most pressing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues. Talkback focuses on two main areas: CSR (business ethics, shareholder activism, corporate governance and public policy) and Sustainability (green living, human rights, the environment and social enterprise). Join the conversation and share your thoughts on Talkback!

How Corporate Volunteerism Can Change the World By Sarah Middleton

Posted: Mar 21, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
Please allow me to make an obvious statement: We live in a society of impatience. We don’t want to wait in line to pay for our groceries. We don’t want to wait in line at the bank or the car wash or the taxi stand. We want that email response now. We want those results immediately. We want an answer yesterday. We’re whirling dervishes of spastic fidgeting and incessant internal monologues. We’re a collective tornado, tearing through life and work and play at a blistering pace.
Engaging in the Moment: Leveraging Technology for Good By Andrew J. Troup

Posted: Mar 16, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
When was the last time you were unexpectedly and unreservedly inspired? How about deeply immersed in an experience, or actually present and engaged? What made that moment so special and so memorable?
Building a Volunteering Program that Really Works By Nita Kirby

Posted: Mar 14, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
Volunteering at work can be a great force for social change and increase retention and employee engagement in your company. Whether companies are giving their employees time off to work on specific projects, defined as “paid release/volunteer time off” programs, or teams are getting together to tackle an issue at a local non-profit, giving time within the workplace has been growing over the last decade, despite multiple changes in our world and citizens finding their voice to make a difference.
Impact for Change: Why Business Impacts Matter? By Amanda Jordan

Posted: Mar 11, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
A Swazi sewing shop might seem a surprising place to see the impacts of big business first hand. But it’s where I found myself one morning in 2013, travelling as a guest of a big global brand. The smiling owner opened the door to us. She was smartly dressed, and rightly proud of the enterprise she’d grown. I’ll never forget the noise of her workshop. About two dozen women were hard at work, mostly from the local village. They were producing uniforms for the factory owned by our client down the road.
KeyBank Recognized as Transparency Leader in Competitive CDP Rankings By Kelly Eisenhardt

Posted: Mar 09, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
As a leader in sustainability for the banking industry, KeyBank was recently recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project as a company meeting criteria for the S&P Climate Leadership Index. With programs focused on environmental reporting, a largely successful renewable energy portfolio, and programs targeting a “low carbon future,” the company moves forward by supporting transparency throughout the banking industry.
Digital Expectations By Matthew Nelson

Posted: Mar 07, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
At New York Life we are implementing a new partner to handle our volunteering, giving campaign (or as I like to think of it now, marketing campaign for giving), and matching gifts programs. The process takes my breath away. I am in complete awe of how many details there are that must be gotten right. And I realize that I have very unrealistic expectations. Here’s why.
Follow the Money: Creating a Successful Corporate Giving Program By Jeroen van Rotterdam

Posted: Mar 04, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
Stakeholder to Shareholder Alchemy: The Promising Relationship Between Social and Financial Performance By Abhishek Ranjan

Posted: Mar 02, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
We’ve mapped the ways in which a whole range of factors play together to drive CSR practices. Now, let’s look at the bottom line, the numbers game, the argument-clincher: profit.
Is the Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Profession the Job of the Future? By Nikos Avlonas

Posted: Feb 29, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
The growth of corporate sustainability (CSR) over the past decades, along with its positioning as a central element of corporate strategy, has given birth to a new category of professionals, the Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) professionals. Sustainability professionals are those within companies and organizations that spend most of their time designing and performing activities related to environmental, economic and social aspects. CSE Research from various sources* has shown that since the introduction of the term of sustainable development in the late 1980s, there has been a constant growth to the number of companies with full-time sustainability managers. Especially since 2000 the number of such companies has increased by 400%. This is evident also in the fact that more than 60% of sustainability professionals have been in the field for less than 10 years.
Five Truths about Running an Online Auction By Peter Dudley

Posted: Feb 24, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST
Not only did I fail to kill our workplace giving campaign’s online auction last year, this year my team is working harder than ever to improve it. I’m still not sure where I went wrong.