The Social Impact Show

In today's episode, we discuss global activism, what it looks like today, and how your business could start. We chat with Jo Jeffreys, Principle Social Value Consultant with Jacobs, and explore how to scale your global activism efforts, showing the ROI of programs and what is the greatest challenge in the space today.

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0:54 - Defining Global Activism

2:20 - How to focus on global and local activism at the same time?

3:13 - What does modern global activism look like? Examples?

6:15 - What challenges were you solving for at Jacobs?

9:19 - How did you get buy-in for social impact programs at Jacobs?

12:12 - How should companies get started in global activism?

15:00 - How to scale your companies global activism efforts?

16:40 - How to show the ROI of social impact programs

18:45 - Greatest challenge in global activism, and how to overcome it?

21:25 - What are you most looking forward to at Goodness Matters 2022?

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/MOTjeyStAwY

In today's episode, we discuss the importance of community investment for your business, why it's important and how to get started. We chat with Leeatt Rothschild, Founder and CEO of Packed with Purpose on how to choose which communities to investment, how to shift priorities and measuring success.

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00:50 - Getting started with purpose

3:08 - Why is community investment important?

4:22 - Changes and trends in community investment the past decade

8:57 - Advice for businesses starting their community investment journey

10:26 - How to choose which communities to invest in

12:35 - How to shift community investment priorities

14:43 - How to measure community investment success

17:54 - What is Packed with Purpose?

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/6LoXNidJokU

In this episode, we talk with Janelle St. Omer, Regional Vice-President with Benevity, and discuss best practices for workplace giving campaigns and how to increase participation and employee engagement. We explore how to find your work place giving champions, asking for budget, and how to measure your programs. We review advanced tips for seasoned CSR professionals, how to adapt to employee turnover and how to get your leadership team to continuously participate. Finally, we talk about the integration of corporate purpose into businesses today.

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https://youtu.be/L39G5e-ZXw0

In today's episode, you'll learn eight strategies to improve your employee engagement for 2022 and beyond. We discuss how to make programs more personal and how to make it easy. We also explore how matching programs and incentives play a significant role. Finally we chat employee resource groups and building strong ambassador networks.

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1:35 - Strategy #1: Make programs personal

2:21 - Strategy #2: Make it easy

4:27 - What are the new volunteering opportunities arising from remote work?

6:37 - Strategy #3: Matching

8:32 - Strategy #4: Incentives

11:29 - Strategy #5: United giving and volunteering

12:20 - Strategy #6: Internationalizing your program

15:06 - Strategy #7: Employee Resource Groups

16:18 - Strategy #8: Building strong ambassador networks

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/0F8nNDwsuz4

In today's video, you'll learn about the impact of the great resignation on corporate social responsibility programs. We explore how businesses have or haven't adapted and strategies to update your CSR programs. We also discuss how employees should have even more say in driving your social impact programs.

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0:42 - What is the Great Resignation?

1:28 - How have companies adapted to the Great Resignation?

3:17 - How are the Great Resignation and CSR tied together?

10:00 - Are employees more emboldened to drive their CSR program?

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/GjsCRwUJxtw

In today's episode, you'll learn all about corporate social responsibility (CSR) software from what it does to how it helps social impact professionals with their employee engagement programs. We explore what features and capabilities to look for when buying and why implementation crucial for success.

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0:47 - What is CSR software?

1:20 - How CSR software reduces workload for social impact programs

4:29 - Learning new software vs status quo

7:42 - Features and capabilities to look for when buying CSR software

12:32 - Integration with charities/causes

15:16 - What to look for with CSR software implementation

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/CKWFmWXQqlc

In today's video, we discuss how to increase employee engagement with your corporate foundation. We explore why volunteering is key and some creative ideas to increase employee participation.

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1:02 - How to increase employee engagement with a company's foundation?

2:10 - Why volunteer support from employees is important to corporate foundation grantees?

4:29 - Lessons learned from engaging employees with grantees

11:43 - Creative ideas for employee engagement

In this episode, we talk with Kathryn Pisco, Goodness Catalyst with Benevity, and discuss how to use your corporate giving and employee engagement software to scale your Corporate Social Responsibility programs and increase employee engagement. We discuss how to boost a stalled CSR program, how to work in traditionally non-giving cultures, and how to engage with employees in different locations. 

This is Part 3 of our 3 Part series on everything you need to know about corporate giving and employee engagement software. 

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https://youtu.be/2rTladZbuPI

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In today's episode, we discuss how to measure the effectiveness and outcomes of you community investment grants including what metrics to look for and how to report long term benefits. We also explore tools and techniques and cost and resources.

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/2dOyVf4JUz8

What we discussed:

0:50 - What are the key granting metrics to look for?

6:12 - Challenges to granting metrics

7:43 - How to measure the success of a grant

9:34 - How to report on long term benefits of grants

13:57 - Tools and techniques to measure grant success

16:21 - Cost and resourcing for grant metric tools

In today's episode, we discuss how to focus your social impact program strategy, identifying key opportunities and how to get internal buy in from employees and leadership.

We also explore when to change priorities and how to communicate that change. Finally, we walkthrough a worksheet on selling your social impact ideas and go through a client study on how this is done.

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1:16 - How to identify key social impact priorities and opportunities

4:29 - How would you identify and communicate social impact priorities to team members

6:01 - When to change your social impact priorities

12:07 - Walkthrough of "Selling your Social Impact Idea" worksheet

15:05 - Client Case Study

16:50 - Core Granting Elements