Working with Businesses Worldwide
Today, business leaders are seeking community engagement
strategies that will help them:
- achieve strategic business goals and meet expectations
for the “triple bottom line”;
- attract and retain the best employees by responding to
their expectations;
- build the knowledge and leadership skills of their employees;
- leverage limited resources to have a demonstrable impact
on community problems.
They are seeking strategies that make a real difference.
CSCG is a global network of experienced,
innovative consultants who have demonstrated their
ability to build community engagement strategies that
meet these expectations – through world class
consultation and training, knowledge development, and program
development.
What We Do
Innovative Tools for High Impact
We know that there is too much to do and too little time
in which to do it. Our tools respond to immediate operational
needs.
Consultation and Training
We provide a full range of consultation and training services
– from diagnosing the current status of programs as
they relate to the company’s strategic goals to developing
strategic business plans for program development to analyzing
realities in target countries and identifying potential partners
to training staff, trouble-shooting, and leading “learning
for continuous improvement” activities.
- Planning the Work and Writing the Plan
– a disciplined, step-by-step approach to identifying
desired outcomes, building strategies, identifying and dealing
with barriers to success, and constructing persuasive business
plans.
- Providing Ongoing Support – strategic
counsel for senior executives and line managers; developing
tools tailored to meet specific needs; troubleshooting and
problem-solving worldwide; knowledge and skill training
for implementation staff.
- Building Strategic Impact – program
design to develop individual and organizational learning;
developing strategies for global program development; developing
effective partnerships with NGOs and governments; benchmark
reports tested against world class best practices.
Knowledge Development
We are on the cutting edge of knowledge development about
corporate community involvement worldwide. By learning from
those who are doing, we can identify emerging trends and best
practices, convert them to useful knowledge, and build tools
that support individual clients and advance the field.
We are proud to have been chosen to assist Businesses
Strengthening America in the development of their
2003 National Research Survey on Corporate and Employee
Volunteering.
Other examples of our Knowledge Development work include:
- “There’s an Elephant in My Bathtub!”
Building High Impact Volunteer Partnerships between Business
and Nonprofits (to be published in Fall 2004) draws
on the experience of over 40 corporate and nonprofit practitioners
in 25 countries to provide a comprehensive, user friendly
resource for both businesses and nonprofit – one done
with a totally global perspective.
- “Learning by Doing” –
based on interviews with 10 companies in 8 countries, identifies
effective strategies for using employee engagement in the
community to build knowledge and skills.
- “The Social Case for Corporate Volunteering”
(in the Australian Journal on Volunteering) is a first examination
of the rationale for corporate volunteering written from
the perspective of nonprofit organizations – why it
is important for them and what they need to know about why
it is important for business.
Who We Are
In the United States and throughout the world, we are CSCG:
- Dr. Kenn Allen – lead researcher
on the pioneering studies that defined corporate volunteering
in the US, consultant to multinational companies, consulting
and training experience in 30+ countries worldwide.
- Sue Heiler – provides research,
consulting, and training support for companies in the US
and abroad; former member of the corporate services team
at the Points of Light Foundation; hands on experience as
corporate staff in Latin America and Europe.
In Brazil, we are Iniciativa Brasil:
- Monica Corullon – founding executive
director of the Programa Voluntarios, the national volunteer
program initiated by First Lady Ruth Cardoso; founding executive
director of Voluntarios das Gerais, award-winning statewide
corporate volunteer program in Brazil’s industrial
heartland; creator of “V-Day,” the first successful
corporate day of service in Latin America; consultant to
major domestic and multinational companies.
And around the world, experienced colleagues on every continent
who can support our work with multinational companies seeking
to build high impact community involvement strategies.
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