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Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College Brings Two Courses to Chicago Area

Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College Brings Two Courses to Chicago Area

Published 04-13-04

Submitted by Center for Corporate Citizenship

CHESTNUT HILL, MA - The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College is bringing two of its most popular courses to the Drake Hotel in Chicago:

Strategic Contributions • May 12-14

Evaluation and Measurement • May 12-13

Strategic Contributions
If your company makes contributions, how can you be sure that it receives real value for its investment? How can you link contributions to both the company's business interests and community needs?

In this program you will learn how to design a strategic contributions program that has a bottom-line impact on the company and integrates your contributions program into your overall community involvement strategy. You will examine the grants management process, budgeting and evaluation methodologies, and discuss related issues such as volunteerism and employee-directed programs.

Key takeaways:

  • The business case for strategic contributions
  • Create or refine your corporate contributions mission statement and guidelines
  • Research methods to develop a strategic contributions program
  • Tools for establishing giving priorities that meet community needs and support the company's business goals and strategies
  • Zero-based contributions budgeting
  • Efficient and effective grants management processes
  • Strategies for measuring and evaluating program outcomes
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Evaluation and Measurement
If it has value, you can measure it. If you measure it, you can prove it has value. Do you have measurable evidence that your company's community involvement programs contribute to your company's competitive edge, strategic goals or bottom-line?

In this program you will learn how to design and conduct evaluations for individual programs as well as your overall community involvement function. You will learn the key steps in the evaluation process, become familiar with different methods for conducting evaluations, and learn about best practices in evaluation and how to avoid pitfalls.

Key takeaways:

  • Tools and techniques for conducting process, outcome and impact evaluations
  • The bottom-line value of your company's community involvement efforts
  • Which programs contribute the most value
    Community advisory panels and other relationship building activities
  • Evaluating requests for dollars, in-kind contributions and employee volunteers
  • Relating community involvement outcomes to marketing and sponsorship impacts
  • Linking community involvement initiatives to human resource issues, including employee recruitment, training and satisfaction
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These programs are just two of 14 offerings of The Center's executive education program. Seminars cover planning, strategy, program development, implementation, communications, evaluation, leadership development and competency building, leading to a Certificate awarded by the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

The Center also offers courses at company sites on request, and can customize its offerings to address companies' specific challenges and needs.

For more information call The Center at 617.552.4545, or go to The Center's web site at http://www.bc.edu/corporatecitizenship.

The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, part of the Carroll School of Management, provides research, executive education, consultation and convenings on issues of corporate citizenship. The Center has more than 300 corporate members across the globe.

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