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Quality of Life: The Civic 50
The Civic 50 is the first comprehensive ranking of S&P 500 companies that best use their time, talent and resources to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business.
Points of Light and the National Conference on Citizenship, in partnership with Bloomberg LP, ranked the Civic 50 companies using seven metrics:
1. Leadership
2. Measurement and strategy
3. Design
4. Employee civic growth
5. Community partnerships
6. Cause alignment
7. Transparency
This series, penned by Jackie Norris, executive director of the Points of Light Corporate Institute, exclusively for CSRwire Talkback, will examine best practices in each of these seven areas and illustrate what makes the Civic 50 companies winners. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment or connecting with us on Twitter or Facebook.
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Just Peachy: Campbell Soup Designs Ways to Nourish Its Community
Posted: May 08, 2013 – 08:55 AM EST
Serving 170,000 people in South Jersey with peaches: Ilir Zherka examines how Campbell Soup found an innovative way to help food insecure residents. -
Leading CSR at Hasbro With Some Help From Transformers & GI Joe
Posted: Apr 23, 2013 – 09:28 AM EST
For valuing executives willing to moonlight as polar bears, Hasbro earned honors in leadership last year from The Civic 50, a ranking of America’s most community-minded companies. Ilir Zherka examines. -
Community Development: Morgan Stanley Challenges Its Employees to Get Involved
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 – 08:57 AM EST
Morgan Stanley earned top honors in employee civic growth last year from The Civic 50. Points of Lights' Jackie Norris examines how the company motivated its employees to get involved in its communities. -
Cause Alignment: Capital One's Formula for Aligning CSR With Everything It Does
Posted: Mar 12, 2013 – 09:35 AM EST
How does Capital One embed its CSR vision into every aspect of its business -- from bank branches to investments? Points of Light's Jackie Norris examines. -
The Citi Foundation Finds New Ways to Measure the Impact of CSR Efforts
Posted: Feb 26, 2013 – 08:00 AM EST
It’s not easy to capture the effects of philanthropic programs on people’s lives. The NCoC's Ilir Zherka examines the efforts of the Citi Foundation to scale its community development by focusing on measuring impact. On Talkback. -
The Civic 50: Why IBM's Integrated Commitments Make it America's Most Community-Minded Company
Posted: Feb 12, 2013 – 08:15 AM EST
What makes IBM America's most community-minded company? Jackie Norris, Executive Director of Points of Lights' Corporate Institute, decodes in part one of a new series on Talkback.