Corporate Social Impact
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How is your business acting on its social purpose? How can you design and run community partnerships to have the greatest impact? How can you measure and report on the social impact of your corporate philanthropy and charity partnerships?
As a business, your ESG credentials matter. We bring expertise from the charity and evaluation sectors to help you align on a social mission and vision, design effective corporate charity giving, identify community partners, and measure your social impact. We can also support businesses considering impact investing. You can find more details on the type of support we provide below.
We have worked for a number of corporates and corporate foundations—large and small— including Tesco’s Little Helps for Healthier Living partnership. We also publish guidance for businesses, including our guides on Building more impactful corporate-charity partnerships and Making your funding go further.
NPC also runs a peer network for leaders of corporate foundations and corporate social investment teams. This is a space where people can share the challenges they are facing and discuss their approach under Chatham House rules. It provides an opportunity to network and connect with other professionals experiencing similar challenges. Get in touch to join.
NPC supported us to find a new charity partner by providing independent analysis and advice.
Sonia Chhatwal
Director, DHL UK Foundation
Find out how we can help
Whether you’re a business or a corporate foundation, we can offer you tailored support from NPC.
Please get in touch to discuss how we can support you.
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Support we provide
Strategy development
Strategy development and landscape analysis to identify where your corporate philanthropy can have impact, aligned to wider business interests and needs.
Partner identification and due diligence
Support to identify potential charity partnerships which deliver on strategic goals, develop those relationships, and conduct thorough due diligence.
Ongoing partnership management
Support to manage ongoing charity partner relationships.
Impact measurement support
Support throughout the impact measurement cycle: from planning for impact and developing theories of change, through to measurement tool development and metrics.
Impact evaluation
Impact evaluations to enable organisations to report on their impact and learn from their programmes.
Who we work with
Featured resources on Corporate Social Impact
Resources
Putting the ‘S’ back into ESG
This is a briefing on how charities can ensure social issues are considered in environmental, social and governance (‘ESG’) frameworks.
Resources
Building more impactful corporate-charity partnerships
How non-profits and for-profits can work better to together and make a bigger difference for people and causes.
Resources
Making your funding go further
To really drive change, funders must support their grantees’ impact practice, and they must examine and improve their own work.
Corporate social impact: Theory of change
This event explains how to develop a theory of change, and discusses how it can support you to measure the social impact of your community partnerships better.
Corporate Social Impact Services
Strategy development
Having a clear giving strategy helps ensure that your organisation’s community partnerships are focused, easily understood by colleagues and customers, and makes a genuine difference to society.
We can help you to develop a strategy by assessing the landscape/evidence base across various areas of interest to determine where financial support can have the most impact. We can also facilitate workshops to understand the views of key stakeholders across the business, and reach consensus.
Partner identification and due diligence
The huge number of non-profits doing good work makes it challenging to identify a handful of organisations to develop a relationship with and conduct due diligence on.
We can support you to agree a set of criteria for prospective charity partners, and use these to identify a shortlist of organisations. We can also undertake due diligence on shortlisted organisations on your behalf.
Impact measurement support
Businesses and corporate foundations are increasingly expected to report on the social impact of their corporate social responsibility work—both publicly, and to key stakeholders in the business.
We can help you plan your giving with impact in mind (through a Theory of Change process), as well as develop tools for ongoing impact measurement of your portfolio.
Impact evaluation
Impact evaluations enable businesses and corporate foundations to report comprehensively on the social impact their charity giving has had.
We conduct impact evaluations on behalf of all types of funder, helping them to understand the impact their funding has had, and providing learning on what could be improved in future funding cycles.
Corporate Social Impact support
If you would benefit from professional support on your social impact and CSR work, NPC's team can help.
