Strategic Community Involvement Planning

An essential component of business social responsibility is understanding your organization's key social/community impacts. Whether you're starting from scratch, tweaking existing programs or giving strategies, facing a specific challenge, or tracking the progress of new initiatives, our community involvement planning can help you identify the challenges and opportunities associated with civic engagement. Together we'll create a strategic plan that that aligns your core values, business assets, and community involvement with your business goals and financial bottom line.

Metrics for Assessing Impact

A commonly underdeveloped but essential component of any company's community involvement efforts is systematically documenting the value of your contributions of time, talent and treasures. We can help you design processes and systems for learning how your community involvement impacts your nonprofit beneficiaries as well as your company's goals.

Telling the Story: Community Impact Reporting

Having engaged in authentic, strategic community involvement, you now need to share your results with your key stakeholders. One of the best ways to reap the benefits is a community involvement section on your external website, and/or intranet, in your annual report, or as a standalone Community Impact Report. We can help you figure out what, when and how to report your efforts authentically and transparently, thus avoiding charges of "whitewashing" or aggrandized self promotion.

BNC Community Involvement Audit

We help you identify the key impacts of your community involvement efforts, assess the challenges and opportunities of your efforts to date, and create a six month action plan to take your CI Strategy to the next level. Before making further investments, we find an audit is essential for any company that has been engaged in the community for at least a year in order to have the necessary information for good decision-making.

Speaking and Live Workshops

We can put together a specialized presentation for your company or association on a variety of topics (Options include: "Contributions and Commerce: Rethinking How to Engage with Nonprofits/NGOs, "The Big Four -- Business Benefits of Community Involvement", Moving Beyond Checkbook Philanthropy)

Remote Training Events

We offer a variety of different online seminars and teleclasses for both businesses and nonprofits. These interactive workshops, led by business leaders and other experts in the field, provide a cost-effective opportunity for education and dialogue -- all from the convenience of your office. See our EVENTS page for offerings from BNC and other leaders in the field.

Workshop in a Box

Our toolkits or "workshops in a box" offer the same great information as our live and web-based trainings but in a format that allows you to set the own hours and pace of your own learning to fit your busy schedule.

For more information or a free preliminary consultation, please call Susan Hyatt at 866-512-0808.