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Thank you Empire State Building for lighting in CECP blue on Monday night!

Four key steps for companies to consider in advancing ESG and long-term strategy disclosures, from encouraging collaboration across IR and CSR departments to un-siloing ESG. Check them out here:

Getting to know you: ESG, Investor Relations and Corporate Sustainability Four thoughts for better long-term focused disclosures Communicating new topics to investors often requires new operational processes, personnel, and data; disclosure can work as an organizational forcing function. Corporations are wrestling with this in the context of sustainability and long-termis

How do companies drive purpose? Daryl Brewster, CEO, CECP discusses how utilities companies are going above and beyond the minimum of safety, equipment reliability, and service affordability. Read it on Transmission & Distribution World: https://www.tdworld.com/utility-business/leading-companies-lever-purpose-drive-long-term-growth-and-profits

Leading Companies Lever Purpose to Drive Long-Term Growth and Profits How do businesses navigate what’s coming and what role do they play in solving social challenges?

How do we measure the in ? Will one impact methodology eventually rule them all? Check out this piece on GreenBiz.com about measurement efforts in this space:

Inside the quest to measure the impact of impact investing The ultimate goal: eliminate the focus on social investing as a separate discipline and spread these principles throughout the entire financial industry.

Every opportunity to stand up for what we believe in, from LGBT+ rights to abolition of the death penalty, is a good opportunity to shift the conversation https://virg.in/UXS

Freedom to Love

Did You Know?: Employees respond well to freedom of choice in giving and volunteering. Tim McClimon, President, American Express Foundation discusses how flexibility fuels passion when it comes to employee engagement.

And companies are embracing this, offering flexibility in their employee engagement programs at increasing rates:

"According to CECP, the number of companies offering flexible scheduling increased from 55 percent to 66 percent and companies offering paid release time increased from 58 percent to 66 percent during the same time period."

Read here:

Freedom Of Choice Drives Employee Engagement In Communities Companies are increasingly empowering their employees to get engaged in the causes that are important to them, and then giving employees the flexibility to carry through on those passions. The resulting increase in engagement is a win-win for both the companies and the communities they serve.

We're in the midst of a sea change. According to a 2018 global survey by FTSE Russell, more than half of global asset owners are currently implementing or evaluating ESG considerations in their investment strategy. What's driving this? And how can corporate managers prepare for this new era of sustainable investing?

Robert Eccles and Svetlana Klimenko break it down in the Harvard Business Review, "The Investor Revolution: Shareholders are Getting Serious About Sustainability":

Shareholders Are Getting Serious About Sustainability "If we can do it at BlackRock, we can do it across capitalism."

Did you know?: Average volunteer hours per employee grew by nearly 43% in very large companies of 100,000 or more employees in 2018!

Also, location matters: Employees who live in the same state as the company's headquarters give almost $200 more per year on average than employees who work outside of their headquarter’s state.

Check out these and more findings in Blackbaud + YourCause's seventh Industry Review, a treasure trove of CSR and employee engagement insights!: http://ow.ly/9RT330okk4L