21st Century Corporate Citizenship: A Practical Guide to Delivering Value to Society and your Business

I live and breathe these topics every day, and I'm incredibly impressed by this book. If you seek practical advice, trust me, no other resource published to date comes even close to matching what this book achieves. One of the authors brings an enormous amount of practical experience backed by a track record of achievement, external recognition, and innovation in this space. The other author is versed in practitioner-oriented and scholarly-oriented studies, and also has considerable experience in this space. Each year I examine the recently published CSR-related textbooks and resources, and I've used several high quality books in the MBA courses I teach. But this book is on another level, and it has advanced much of my thinking. Simply put, I learned a ton from this book, and I look forward to reading it again.

A great resource, written by two of today's leading experts in corporate social responsibility. If you want the accelerate your program with empirical research and practice, this is the book for you. Full of useful insights and practical advice about how to build the best corporate citizenship, philanthropy or sustainability program. Great whether you're doing just one of these elements or responsible for a comprehensive CSR program.

Extremely helpful in developing a corporate citizenship strategy for my company. More nuanced than many other writings on the subject and written by successful real world practitioners. Appropriate for organizations large and small.

Wow! Dave and Katherine have absolutely hit it out of the park with this book. If you're a corporate citizenship professional at any level, I promise you'll learn something from this book.Not only does this duo provide a 10,000 foot view of the CSR landscape today, they dive deep into topics in a very practical way that enables practitioners to really apply the concepts presented in their own workplace, in a way that's specific and meaningful to them.Dave and Katherine have the wisdom, experience and perceptive to provide best practice advice on advancing citizenship efforts in a way that's deeply embedded into business strategy - the only real way to implement these programs in a sustainable, lasting way. They point out potential obstacles along the way and, importantly, provide tangible strategies for staying ahead of the game. They also share trends they're witnessing so readers can be prepared for the future.All around, a truly useful, engaging, easy-to-follow guide. Can't recommend this enough!

This book is exactly what the CSR and Corporate Citizenship industry needed. As a practitioner, I know it can be hard to put ideas into action. This book offers a step by step guide to building your organization's program and helping it evolve. It provides the stats you need to justify your role in an organization, and it offers practical guidance for real world scenarios we may face. You can read it cover to cover in just a few hours, but it's well organized so you can use it as a reference guide for years to come. Highly recommend.

As the authors say, you may know it as a variety of names -- CSR, sustainability, corporate responsibility -- but no matter what you call it, this book will help your business act as a force for good more strategically and successfully. Incredibly practical, more of a workbook or a roadmap, the authors walk the reader through the essential tools needed to create meaningful business and social value with your corporate citizenship programs -- with concrete examples from leading companies that get it right.

I have long been thinking about how how to integrate CSR into my business to do good for the community but was challenged on how to strategically integrate into my overall business plan. I had heard of the good work of Dave Stangis at Campbell and Katherine Smith at Boston College in the field so I purchased this book. Given the examples and insight from the 2 authors, I found it an excellent guide.

As a long-time sustainability researcher, educator, and consultant, I can safely say this is the most practical hands-on how to guide for sustainability professional I've read to date. The book is chock full of practical tools that any sustainability manager or consultant can use to craft a comprehensive impactful sustainability strategy. Dave and Katherine have given our profession a great gift!