What You Need to Remember When Increasing Your Community Involvement

It doesn’t matter what size your company is, or what industry you’re in, you should be involved in your community. If the positive impact component isn’t enough for you, community engagement and philanthropy mean increased customer loyalty and positive reflection on your bottom line. Whether it’s the neighborhood your office is in or your online community of users, you need to …

How to Tell Your Brand’s Philanthropic Story

No matter the size of your company or your digital footprint, there’s never a bad time to reexamine the efficacy of your digital storytelling.  Your CSR story needs to be front page news, so you need to make it engaging and easily accessible to help enhance your brand image. 64% of millennials use social media to address or engage with companies around …

7 Simple Crowdfunding Best Practices for Businesses

Across North America, companies in all industries are launching partnerships with nonprofits and crowdfunding platforms to collaborate and leverage their audience to execute on their CSR projects. Crowdfunding has become an increasingly accepted, indeed – expected, CSR activity, which more and more cause marketing professionals are recognizing and appreciating for its lack of a real ‘downside’ and the incredible potential …

Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility

As the lines blur between what constitutes ‘cause marketing’ and ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), they are often mistakenly lumped together and perceived as being one and the same. It is easier to think of CSR as the umbrella under which a variety of business practices related to social good and initiatives like cause marketing and sponsorship sit. Where cause marketing …