Voice of Corporate Citizenship, January 2008

January 2008

In Good Company

Nearly half of Chicago's public school freshmen do not graduate from high school. Exelon's Stay in School Initiative, which won the 2007 Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, is working hard to change that statistic. Read more.

Welcome New Members

» Foley Hoag LLP
» ULA

Learn more about these new Center members and their corporate citizenship efforts.

Upcoming Center Events

Integrating Corporate Citizenship Across the Company
Feb 6-8; San Diego

Leveraging Corporate-Community Partnerships
Feb 6-8; San Diego

Corporate Citizenship Communication
Mar 5-7; Scottsdale

Evaluation and Measurement
Mar 5-7; Scottsdale

Developing a Community Involvement Strategy
Mar 26-28; Nashville

Institute on Corporate Citizenship
Mar 26-28; Nashville

International Corporate Citizenship Conference
Apr 6-8; Boston

» More events

Creating the Discipline of Corporate Citizenship

by Bradley K. Googins, Ph.D., Executive Director, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Effective and strategic corporate citizenship doesn't just happen by will or by vision. It is often the hard and daily grind of building processes, taking the time to raise the awareness of the strategic value to business units across the globe, and of measuring and reporting results that builds a strong and relevant citizenship within a company. Read more.

Transforming Business-Education Partnerships: Seeking Solutions for the 21st Century
The Center is hosting a one-day conference in Boston on April 5 (immediately preceding the International Corporate Citizenship Conference) to explore how companies can transform their business-education partnerships by taking a more strategic approach. Read more.

Citizenship as Strategy: Outside-In, Inside Out
by Phil Mirvis, Senior Research Fellow, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Leading-edge firms make the link between business and society in their strategies, plans, and supply chain by looking outside-in to define the issues that are "material" to the firm and to society, and by considering, from the inside-out, how to address them authentically and distinctly. Read more.

Creating a Profile of the Corporate Citizenship Practice
The Center has launched a new project that will soon answer some of the most practical questions about how corporate citizenship actually works inside companies. Read more.

Leadership or Change Management?
Which is the more valuable skill in driving tangible improvements in CSR performance? Intel's Dave Stangis asked this question on his CSR blog after speaking at The Center's course on this topic. Read more.

State of Corporate Citizenship Communications Wins Award
The Hitachi Foundation has received an award for the communications strategy that supported the release of the 2007 State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S. Read more.

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The Voice of Corporate Citizenship is the monthly electronic newsletter of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship; the articles in this issue also appear on The Center's web site. Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues.

Editor's note: We welcome submissions from all readers. Our readership is varied and ranges from those with many years experience in corporate citizenship to those who are just entering the field. If you have a story to tell, advice to share, or a voice that wants to be heard, we welcome your submission. To learn more or submit an article, email susan.thomas@bc.edu.