Join the Center that's been leading the way in corporate citizenship for 40 years.
BCCCC is a membership organization dedicated to helping companies—regardless of industry or starting point—know more, do more, and achieve more with their CSR, sustainability, and reporting efforts.
10,000+
Corporate Citizenship Professionals
~400
Companies Served Annually
$80B
Market Cap of BCCCC Members
Countless
Resources, Learning Opportunities, and Ways to Get Involved
Just a few of our most active members. See the full list of current BCCCC members here.
We combine the most valuable aspects of a professional network and the resources of a leading academic institution. Our membership includes ~400 socially responsible companies and over 10,000 individual professionals from companies around the world. Our Center is housed within the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Our purpose is to help people in companies get better results from environmental, social, and governance efforts by supporting their decision making with empirical evidence, and offering real-time peer support.
Research & Benchmarking
Knowledge from the field; data and statistics on emerging trends; case studies; survey results; peer-reviewed findings, and more—all to help you make your business case or shape your CSR programs. Our research covers the main categories of corporate citizenship, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics, and often delves into sub-categories, like community involvement, employee engagement, workforce inclusion and opportunity, etc.
Collaboration & Networking
Companies leverage BCCCC membership to unlock networking and knowledge-sharing events—both in-person and online; access to our online Q&A portal with thousands of CSR peers weighing in; Advisory Board service opportunities; and countless other ways to learn from industry peers.
World-class Executive Education
Being knowledgeable means staying competitive--both for individual CSR practitioners and for companies looking to differentiate themselves. BCCCC offers world-class courses, certificate programs, and custom team trainings. Our Exec Ed programs outshine others in the space because they're rooted in BC's rigorous academic tradition and informed by the real-world business experiences, gained over 40 years.
BCCCC provides knowledge and learning opportunities that help business professionals address ESG opportunities and risks from wherever they sit in their companies.
Read this overview of mentoring program models, best practices, benefits to the different parties involved, and ideas for measuring impact.
Read this overview of mentoring program models, best practices, benefits to the different parties involved, and ideas for measuring impact.
Read this overview of mentoring program models, best practices, benefits to the different parties involved, and ideas for measuring impact.
Corporate citizenship is how a company exercises its rights, obligations, privileges, and overall corporate responsibility within our local and global environments.
Great question, especially as the field has evolved, and as "ESG" has become something of a buzzword—with a fuzzy definition. Corporate citizenship is the combination of rights, responsibilities, obligations, and privileges of a firm, as exercised within society. In other words, corporate citizenship is the whole topic. ESG, CSR, and sustainability are elements within this larger whole. CSR is the activity that's happening within a firm. The projects. The campaigns and initiatives. It might take place inside a specific department or, ideally, be extended throughout and aligned with the entire company. ESG is the taxonomy. It's the way in which we categorize corporate citizenship efforts: some are environmental; some are socially based; others are governance related. Taken together, all these efforts are part of the work that is corporate citizenship.
Simply put, BCCCC is the longest-standing community and resource center of its kind. We have been working with senior business leaders and corporate citizenship practitioners for 40 years. Since 1985, we’ve been helping companies make more effective social and environmental investments. BCCCC was founded the same year that scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer. Our Center was the first of its kind to address the need for professional development and executive education about ESG matters for people in companies. In 1995, when the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was founded, we had 260 members. Three decades later, we’re still on the leading edge of CSR program strategy and ESG reporting requirements.
The measurement and return on investment (ROI) of corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship is defined by how well companies responsibly manage not only their financial performance but also their environmental and social impact. Whether we call it CSR, Corporate Responsibility, or ESG, great corporate citizenship goes beyond a focus on addressing surface-level sustainability efforts or corporate philanthropy. Today’s leading responsible corporations draw on the collective impact of a variety of initiatives that address an array of trends and emerging issues.
