Five Guiding Principles for Planning Your CSR Strategy and Making it Work for Your Business

James Link, Landcare Australia’s Head of Corporate Partnerships said, “Through our work with business, we know that developing and implementing a CSR program is not always straightforward.

“That’s why earlier this year, we held a roundtable discussion with key CSR/sustainability representatives to gather insights that we hope will be a source of information and expertise to businesses interested in expanding or changing their CSR, sustainability or community investment programs.”

Planning Your CSR Strategy and Making it Work for Your Business is the outcome of this roundtable discussion.

This report is only possible because of representatives from businesses who participated in the discussion and who are quoted throughout the report.  We appreciate the support of:  Abergeldie, Coca Cola South Pacific, Konica Minolta, KPMG, Rio Tinto, Transurban and Virgin Australia.  Landcare Australia works in partnership with a number of these companies to help achieve goals in the CSR, sustainability and community engagement space.

The five guiding principles for planning your CSR/Sustainability Strategy and Making it Work for Your Business are: 

1. Make it meaningful for YOUR business
2. Ensure it makes business sense
3. Get leadership buy-in
4. Environment matters; and
5. Overcome your challenges

The report pinpoints the challenges businesses face in developing and implementing CSR/community/ sustainability investment programs and provides real life examples of ways to overcome them.

As a subscriber of this newsletter, we’re providing you with the first opportunity to read this Report.

We’ll be releasing it to the public later in the week—using Linkedin as our major outlet.  If you don’t already follow Landcare Australia on Linkedin, we hope you will connect with us and share, like or comment on the posts we make.