This document provides advice for corporations on effectively aligning their corporate social responsibility activities with their mission and clients' values. It recommends thoroughly vetting potential nonprofit partners by reviewing annual reports, websites, and programs, and speaking with leadership and beneficiaries to ensure goals are well-matched. Once a partnership is formed, the document advises giving decision-making power to the person overseeing CSR and minimizing reporting requirements so that funding can be focused on continuing existing effective programs rather than starting new initiatives.

1. A Receiver’s Eye View
of
Corporate Social Responsibility

2. Match your CSR activities
with your corporate mission

3. Consider your CLIENTS’ social concerns

4. Rabbi
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The act purifies the motive
for the act.”

5. Do Your DUE DILIGENCE
Read the annual reports.

6. Sources of Funding
Income Distribution
Distribution of
proceeds
Ask questions.

7. Get to know their leadership.
Scrutinize their
websites.

8. Visit their
programs
Talk to their
beneficiaries

9. Don’t ask for
elaborate proposals…

10. Help them to continue to do what
they do well.
not start something new.

11. Don’t spurn the “O” word

12. Give your person in charge REAL
decision power.

13. Don’t ask for
extensive reports…

14. RE-visit their programs

15. “Put all your eggs
in one basket,
and
watch that basket!”
Mark Twain

16. Think of CSR as an INVESTMENT

17. 1/28/2015
Follow the results

18. www.ovid.ro