Causenation
A blog by Cause Consulting
Inventing a Better World – CES 2016
Entrepreneurship and innovation have driven the U.S. economy for generations. Numerous case studies support this claim including the invention of modern medicine, the World Wide Web, and today's communication technologies. Innovation is inherently beneficial to...
Human Centered Design Thinking Workshop – Video Summary
Watch this short video showing the Cause Consulting team bringing a human-centered design thinking experience to life.
Trending: Music Education, Social Innovation + Healthy Living [NEWSLETTER]
See what we’ve been up to. This newsletter highlights the launch of HARMAN Inspired and our panels at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Conference.
Walking The Tightrope: 5 Strategies to Generate Both Local and Global Impact
Imagine the global corporate citizenship professional walking a tightrope, trying to balance the tensions of making decisions that simultaneously generate local and global social impact. How should they weigh the issues and set priorities as they are pressured by...
How to Use Toy Blocks to Tackle Social Challenges
It is increasingly clear that global health, education, poverty and environmental challenges are profoundly interconnected. Getting to the root of the problems and driving toward new solutions is complex. Unlike trying to assemble the pieces of a puzzle to arrive at...
Growing, Sharing, Giving And Investing In The Health Of Our Community
CORPORATE PRESS RELEASE BOSTON — November 13, 2015 —Nutrition, physical activity and the environment are major influences on an individual's health and wellness. To help raise awareness of this important issue, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' (Blue Cross)...
Investing In The Health Of Our Communities – Cause Consulting
Ideas for how to move corporate volunteerism toward the creation of real human and business outcomes, beyond a focus on number of hours and other outputs.
Learning Cannot Be Contained – One Student’s Vision for the HS of the Future
High school education has been traditionally tethered to a single room, with one teacher and a group of students. However, in the modern age, there is no reason for such traditional learning. Education should go far beyond classrooms, both physically and conceptually,...
At-a-glance: Pope’s Visit, UN Global Development Goals, and CGI
The last two weeks have been incredibly eventful on the global stage with the UN General Assembly, Clinton Global Initiative and a Papal visit to America all coinciding. Overall, these events/meetings reinforced the importance of considering social issues and taking...
Sustainable Development Goals: What You Need to Know
Today, more than 150 world leaders will convene at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to kick off the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015 and formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. The summit will focus on the 17...
Taking Action: Partnerships, Leadership + SDGs [NEWSLETTER]
A keynote at the Jimmy Fund, a workshop to imagine the high school of the future, our team volunteering alongside New Balance and more in this newsletter.
Maximizing the Power of Public-Private Partnerships – Mark Feldman
3 strategies to help companies maximize the power of public-private partnerships to drive consumer trust, loyalty, and next-level engagement from Mark Feldman’s keynote.
How to be a Strong Corporate Social Issue Leader – Nikki Korn Blog
Tips and best practices for Crafting and Communicating Your Corporate Social Issue Leadership from Nikki Korn’s Webcast.
A Vision and Hope for the High School of the Future
“Let’s re-imagine Boston High Schools. What if there were no walls? What could the high school experience look like?” queried Nikki Korn, Principal of Cause Consulting, to the audience at the fifth annual Youth Designers Take Action Competition. Nikki’s question, the...
Teen Perspective on Creating the High School of the Future
This summer Daniel participated in Cause Consulting’s Youth Designers Take Action Workshop and Competition learning how to embed social issues into communications.
Nikki Korn Talks About Helping Students Re-Imagine Public High Schools
Watch Nikki Korn’s TV interview about helping Boston students re-Imagine their public high schools by applying design thinking techniques.
Cause Consulting Sponsors Youth Designers Take Action Competition
Boston’s Chief of Education joined Cause Consulting’s Youth Designers Take Action Competitition that teaches teens how to create and pair social impact messaging and design.
How to Engage Hard to Reach Employees
Employee engagement is a challenge, especially if your employees are hourly, remote or facility workers. During a dynamic conversation session at this year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference in Austin, an impressive group of panelists shared...
A Winning Mindset for Your Corporate Citizenship Journey – Nikki Korn
Five tips for how corporate citizenship professionals can develop and practice a winning mindset to continously advance their social impact vision.
RELEASE: Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Becomes National Food and Beverage Partner of the Accion U.S. Network
Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Becomes National Food and Beverage Partner of the Accion U.S. Network 2015 Program Will Help Hundreds of Small Businesses and Provide More Support To Up-and-Coming Craft Brewers BOSTON, March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- To expand...
Mark Feldman Receives Presidential Daily Point of Light Award
Mark Feldman recognized with a Presidential Daily Point of Light Award for his 25 years of connecting the power of business and community service.
How to Create Impact Through Corporate Volunteerism – Mark Feldman
Ideas for how to move corporate volunteerism toward the creation of real human and business outcomes, beyond a focus on number of hours and other outputs.
The Power of Putting the Human Story First
Dorris, Shana, and Jennifer are all women who previously worked as prostitutes on the streets of Nashville. Coming from broken families and difficult childhoods, these women found themselves working the streets at as early as 12 years old. After years of drug and sex...
5 Companies Addressing the Global Water Crisis
Learn about five corporate social impact efforts to address the world’s clean drinking water crisis.
Review of Global CSR Report
The Ajinomoto Group is a 105 year old, global Japanese food and chemical corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, TV dinners, sweeteners, amino acids, and pharmaceuticals. Since 2012, the Ajinomoto Group has been reporting its initiatives to help build a...
500 Executives, 250 Bikes, 90 Minutes & More! [NEWSLETTER]
It was a busy end of year for Cause Consulting, giving us lots of energy and excitement for what is to come in 2015! This newsletter celebrates Mark’s Corporate Responsibility Superstar Award, Harriet’s blog on setting Context Goal and more.
Context Goals – Blowing the Smoke Away From the Finish Line
Over the past 10 years, there has been a significant shift in the way that companies communicate with their stakeholders. In an increasingly connected, ‘open source’ world, company marketing and communications teams no longer have full control of their story and are...
How to Create an Employee Volunteer Bike Build – Cause Consulting
Top tips for creating and maximizing your employee volunteer bike build. Lessons learned when we led 500 executives to build 250 bicycles in 90 minutes.
Mark Feldman Recognized as Corporate Responsibility Leader
Cause Consulting’s Founder and Managing Director, Mark Feldman, was named as an exemplary leader in Corporate Responsibility by Corporate Responsibility Magazine.
Cars vs Faster Horses – How Design Thinking Enables You to Ideate Differently
What is design thinking and how are companies applying it toward social issues.
Tips on Harnessing Mobile Technology for Social Change
At this year’s US Chamber of Commerce Annual Corporate Citizenship Conference, I facilitated a session on the transforming power of mobile technology to create safer and healthier communities. Panelists included Jenny Abramson, President & CEO of LiveSafe and Jeff...
A Tactical Roadmap to Avoid Employee Engagement Potholes – Mark Feldman
This Cause Consulting Webinar provides lessons on how avoid employee engagement and volunteerism potholes and communicate effectively.
Design Thinking Workshop with Boston Teens – Cause Consulting
Stereotyping, police violence, pollution, GMOs and education were among the issues tackled by Boston teens during Cause Consulting’s Youth Designers Take Action Competition.
Boston’s Chief of Economic Development Joins Design Thinking Workshop
Learn how urban teens talk about youth employment and workforce issues from Cause Consulting’s Workshop joined by Boston’s Chief of Economic Development.
Cause Consulting Leads Social Issue Workshop with Mayor’s Office
Boston’s Chief of Economic Development joined Cause Consulting’s Workshop with teens to craft messages to convince business leaders that urban youth are valued employees.
Get “Engaged” this Summer [NEWSLETTER]
From Cause Talk Radio to our employee engagement workshop at the Cause Marketing Forum – check out what we’ve been up to this May/June.
Employee Engagement, Don’t Get Burned — Feldman On Cause Talk Radio
What a blast it was joining Joe Waters of SelfishGiving.com and Megan Strand of Cause Marketing Forum on their weekly Cause Talk Radio show. In the podcast, Employee Engagement is Hot! How Not to Get Burned, I was interviewed on potential potholes and opportunities...
Employee Engagement Tips & Potholes to Avoid
The following is the third in a series of excerpts from materials presented by Mark Feldman at the Employee Engagement workshop session at the 2014 Cause Marketing Forum (CMF) in Chicago. The interactive session brought together businesses, agencies and non-profits to...
Employee Engagement Spectrum
The following is the second in a series of excerpts from materials presented by Mark Feldman at the Employee Engagement workshop session at the 2014 Cause Marketing Forum (CMF) in Chicago. The interactive session brought together businesses, agencies and non-profits...
8 Things to Consider When Designing A Cause-Focused Employee Engagement Program
The following is the first in a series of excerpts from materials presented by Mark Feldman at the Employee Engagement workshop session at the 2014 Cause Marketing Forum (CMF) in Chicago. The interactive session brought together businesses, agencies and non-profits to...
Creating Social Value: A Guide For Leaders – Book Review
Summary of Creating Social Value: A Guide for Leaders and Change Makers, by Cheryl Kiser and Deborah Leipziger.
Mark Feldman Quoted in Inc. Magazine on Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy
Mark Feldman is quoted in Inc. Magazine article on philanthopy – “Community engagement should be part of every entrepreneur’s business plan.”
Check Out Cause Consulting’s May Newsletter!
Mark Feldman is quoted in Inc. Magazine, Nikki Korn writes about her panel at the BC Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference and more in this newsletter.
Samuel Adams Enlists Drinker Support
It is exciting to reprint this press release announcing another extension of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program, now in its six year… BOSTON, May 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix="null"]Samuel Adams today announced the...
Adaptable Leadership – Takeaways from BC Corporate Citizenship Conference
Trends, insights, and how-to information about adaptable social issue leadership we captured at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference.
Nikki Korn leads Panel “Products for Good: How Companies Leverage Cause Marketing”
Nikki Korn lead a panel at the 2014 Boston College International Corporate Citizen Conference: Adaptable Leadership. The annual conference engaged over 600 member company attendees to share knowledge and expertise regarding the practice of corporate citizenship. This...
Mark Feldman Leads Panel on “Balancing Corporate Philanthropy: Long and Short, Big and Small”
Mark facilitated a panel at the 2014 Boston College International Corporate Citizen Conference: Adaptable Leadership. The annual conference engaged over 600 member company attendees to share knowledge and expertise regarding the practice of corporate citizenship. This...
Creating a Map for Your Corporate Citizenship Journey
Excerpt - This blog was originally published by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Website Corporate Citizenship is often described as a “journey,” but how many of us really have a map. Are we travelers on someone else’s path; blazing new trails;...
Aligning CSR Strategy with Brand
CSR/Sustainability and Marketing professionals have not always been the best of friends. In fact, recently, Thomas Kolster, Creative Director and Author of Goodvertising, and Founder of Where Good Grows, posted a cartoon showing them at opposite ends of a couple’s...
CSR Hot Trends in the Cold South
I was honored to be included as a panelist at Duke’s Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference (SBSI) where over 500 students, professionals, academics, and others gathered at the Fuqua School of Business to discuss innovative business models, partnerships,...