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Delivered quarterly, The Corporate Citizen is the largest circulation magazine focused on corporate citizenship—offering industry practitioners an in-depth look into the programs and trends that are shaping the future of the field.

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Corporate Citizenship

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Employee Engagement Across Generations

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | ISSUE 45 - Research shows that companies with age-focused diversity practices and policies have higher CSR ratings.

Powering the Future | Rethinking the Grid

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | ISSUE 45 - This article explores how energy providers like Xcel Energy and Enbridge Inc. are creating a path toward a more sustainable future through renewable resources and innovative partnerships.

Life-saving Partnerships Brighten Futures

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | ISSUE 45 - A profile of two companies, USAA and Leidos, with cultures that support mental wellness and suicide prevention in the workplace as well as in their broader communities.

Insights from the Corner Office

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | ISSUE 45 - Hear from chief executive officers at onsemi, Insulet, and Applied Materials, and as they open up the Net Zero playbook and discuss ways of integrating sustainability into explanding business operations.

Engaging Employees

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Travelers | The Eight-Step Process for Leading Change

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | FALL 2022: An outline of Travelers' process for continual improvement in workforce development, philanthropy, and HR practice

From Woodstock to TikTok

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | FALL 2022: Leaders in CSR discuss how to engage employees in corporate citizenship programs, despite a thirty-year age gap and generational differences.

Building an Inclusive Talent Pipeline

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2020: WarnerMedia and Maritz differentiate themselves by making their workplaces more inclusive.

Redefining Employee Well-being

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SPRING 2019: An exploration of two leading companies’ employee wellness programs, which have encouraged both the attraction and retention of top talent.

Community Involvement

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The Link between Data and Citizenship

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SPRING 2020: Teradata and TransUnion use their core business capabilities to support nonprofits, engage their employees to do social good, and educate and empower consumers.

The Corporate Citizen: Issue 32

EXPLORE NEW PERSPECTIVES - Resilient companies have adapted their corporate citizenship programs to address complex issues such as economic inequality, natural disasters, and COVID-19.

The Corporate Citizenship Imperative During Crisis

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SPRING 2020: FedEx is using its strongest capabilities to meet critical demands in the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Profound Partnerships

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2020: Mailchimp and Brown-Forman use innovative partnerships with nonprofit organizations to reach underserved populations and enhance their impact.

Sustainablity Reporting

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A-Rated Sustainability

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | FALL 2019: Veolia North America and Las Vegas Sands demonstrate sound sustainability stewardship -- and how to communicate environmental results.

Demystifying Corporate Citizenship Rankings and Indices

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | Summer 2018: Evaluating a company's strengths, weaknesses, goals, and peers helps to determine which CSR and sustainability rankings should be prioritized.

Career Path

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | Fall 2018: Five corporate citizenship professionals share lessons they have learned as well as the many benefits continuous learning has brought to their careers and their work.

The Reporting Landscape

Corporate citizenship leaders offer advice on how to navigate complexities of sustainability reporting.

Responsible Corporate Leadership

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How to explain your corporate advocacy position

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SUMMER 2022: Here’s an inside look at the role corporate citizenship plays in speaking out on key stakeholder issues.

From the Corner Office

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SUMMER 2022: Chief executives from across industries communicate successes in ESG reports.

Inclusive Corporate Citizenship

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2021: The evidence that the pandemic is disproportionately affecting the health and the economic resilience of our most vulnerable populations provides an opportunity to examine our assumptions about how the world works and for whom.

Strategically Social

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2021: Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) are interdependent aspects of our operating environment. We both derive valuable inputs from ESG factors and either add to or diminish them.

Environmental Sustainability

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Improving the shape of water

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2023: This article looks at how companies can take a more efficient and productive approach to water consumption.

Global goals for environmental action

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | FALL 2022: A closer look at corporate efforts to address sustainable development goals (SDGs), and share toolkits to solve common issues and create shared value.

The Evolution of Sustainability Reporting

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2021: Disclosing performance data on environmental and social commitments is now expected not only from niche thematic investors but from mainstream investors also.

Creative Solutions to Climate Change

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2021: The impacts of climate change on corporate operations are apparent already in our changing weather patterns, which have intensified in recent years and resulted in significant economic losses.

Impact Measurement

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The Corporate Citizen: Issue 24

SCAN, ANALYZE, EXPERIMENT, EVOLVE: Hear from companies who have scanned their horizons, analyzed their circumstances, experimented with their programs, and evolved into corporate citizenship leaders.

The Corporate Citizen: Issue 22

GOALS BEYOND "BETTER": As corporate citizenship professionals, when we're designing our vision for a more sustainable future—and developing the programs to achieve it—we need to move beyond "better," and really start to describe specific ESG goals that will deliver tangible, measurable progress toward that vision.

The Corporate Citizen, Issue 15

Read how corporate citizenship programs not only advance communities and protect the environment, but deliver benefits to business as well.

Measuring for Progress

Two companies illustrate how they are using measurement to identify areas of improvement and ensure future growth.

The Value of Corporate Citizenship

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From the Corner Office

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | WINTER 2023: This article looks at how today's executives view and value corporate citizenship efforts.

Forward thinking: Insights from the experts

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | FALL 2022: Eight CSR experts share how they're managing to address an array of trends and emerging issues

A corporate citizenship journey in South Korea

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SUMMER 2022: POSCO integrated corporate citizenship across its operations to business success in the fourth-largest economy in Asia.

The Corporate Citizen: Issue 35

INCLUSION = INNOVATION - Companies are realizing that diversity and inclusion leads to new solutions in a rapidly-evolving world.

Supply Chain Management

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Sourcing Evolved

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | SPRING 2020: Hilton has created effective ways to source its materials and communicate its supply chain management solutions.

From Start to Finish

THE CORPORATE CITIZEN | Winter 2018: A significant amount of ESG impact occurs within supply chains, whether it is greenhouse gas emissions, vendor performance, labor conditions within a supplier’s factory, or the sourcing of materials.

Corporate Citizenship Through the Value Chain

Two leading companies share how they work with partners throughout their value chain to better the environment and society.

Integrating Corporate Citizenship Across the Value Chain

A closer look at how two companies are enforcing their corporate citizenship standards throughout their value chains.

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