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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,...
Nikki Korn Shares Guidance on Social Impact Field in TriplePundit Interview
Nikki is interviewed as part of TriplePundit’s “Women in CSR” series about her journey and her perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the corporate responsibility sector.
Mark Feldman Leads Plenary Panel at Northern CA Grantmakers Philanthropy Institute
Mark Feldman led and participated in a plenary session at the Northern California Grantmakers Philanthropy Institute –Visionary Practice: Groundbreaking Ideas in Action. Mark joined McKesson’s Carrie Varoquiers, Google Giving’s Jacquelline Fuller, and IBM’s Gwyneth...
Taking Innovation to the Streets
Joining the powerhouse team of McKesson’s Carrie Varoquiers, Google Giving’s Jacquelline Fuller, and IBM’s Gwyneth Borden, I recently led and participated in a discussion at the Northern California Grantmakers Philanthropy Institute – Visionary Practice:...
Cause Consulting Partners with 2013 Youth Design Take Action Competition
Cause Consulting is proud to announce the winners of the third annual Youth Design Take Action Competition. The competition is a key component of Youth Design’s 14 month long program, which allows the young designers to use their design skills and talent to inspire...
Harriet Henry at Conference Board Corporate Social Impact Conference
Harriet participated in the Conference Board’s Annual Corporate Social Impact Conference which brings together companies, foundations, nonprofits, philanthropists, and local government to discuss and debate a wide variety of issues including corporate giving,...
Sherman Leads Panel at Cause Marketing Forum on Innovative CR Storytelling
Risa Sherman facilitated on reaching audiences through real stories and innovative ways of storytelling at the 2013 Cause Marketing Forum conference in Chicago. The panel focused on telling the behind-the-scenes story of the partnership between Ford Warriors in Pink...
ARAMARK Receives Silver for Best Social Service Campaign at Cause Marketing Forum
ARAMARK and Families International, Inc. (FI), the largest network of local, independent community centers, were honored with a Silver Cause Marketing Halo Award in the Best Social Service Campaign Category at the 11th Annual Cause Marketing Forum Conference on May 30...
Boston Beer Wins Gold for 2013 CMF Halo Award Best Social Service Campaign
The Boston Beer Company was awarded a Gold for the 2013 Cause Marketing Forum Halo Award in the Social Service category at the 11th Annual Cause Marketing Forum Conference in Chicago. This is the highest honor in this category and is given out to programs judged to be...
CSR for Small & Medium Businesses: Feldman Moderates Panel at BC Corporate Citizenship Conference 2013
Mark Feldman led a panel at the BC International Corporate Citizenship Conference 2013: Corporate Citizenship for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Feldman introduced some of the key differences between corporate citizenship at smaller versus larger companies, where...
Korn Facilitates Panel on Education Programs at the BC Corporate Citizenship Conference 2013
Nikki Korn facilitated an expert panel on community involvement education programs, "Education Programs that Balance." The panel focused on the challenges and successes of developing an education program that represents the needs of key stakeholders and fits the...
Korn Quoted on Opening of Boston Panera Cares Cafe
Nikki Korn was interviewed by the Springfield Republication news publication on the role of corporate philanthropy on social issues and the innovation behind the Panera Cares Cafe, which opened in Boston in January 2013. Korn stated that Panera is using a corporate...
Feldman Acts as First Round Judge for 2012 BCLC Citizens Awards
Mark Feldman served as a first round judge for the 2012 BCLC Citizens Awards. Feldman judged in the category of Best Corporate Steward. The winner of this category was DSM for using its unique capabilities in Life Sciences and Materials Science to find sustainable...
NYTimes Business Section Features Sam Adams
Boston Beer Company and its founder, Jim Koch, are featured in the business section of the New York Times as well as its blog, You're the Boss, in two separate posts (Post 1 and Post 2).The feature explores Boston Beer’s support of small businesses in the food,...
Cause Consulting Sponsors Youth Design Takes Action Competition
Editor’s note, June 1, 2013: The 2013 class of Youth Designers are getting ready for their summer internships. Cause Consulting is thrilled to continue to sponsor the Youth Design Takes Action Competition, now in its third year, and we are looking forward to working...
AMD Launches the NexGen Engineers Leadership Platform
AMD launched their NextGen Engineer program to provide college engineering students with the multidisciplinary skills and experiences required to lead innovation for global impact. AMD’s NextGen Engineer initiative brings to life the company’s commitment to developing...
Cause Consulting Acknowledged at Clinton Global Initiative
It is always gratifying to see the programs we build in partnership with our clients come to life and even more so when these efforts are recognized for their impact. So we had genuine goosebumps last month when Cause Consulting partner and friend, Jim Koch, founder...
Sherman Participates in A Billion + Change White House Forum
Risa Sherman attended the White House Forum: A Billion + Change in Action: Connecting to the Future of Corporate Service. This forum brought together leaders in the corporate service world to discuss ways to leverage the rich resources of skilled employee-volunteers...
Interview with Mark Feldman on the Evolution of Cause and CSR Field on 3BL
In this video by 3BL, Mark Feldman of Cause Consulting discusses how cause marketing continues to evolve and connect to corporate social responsibility and citizenship.
Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Award Winners
The Adobe Foundation announced the winners of the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, a new opportunity for youth worldwide to submit compelling digital work portraying social issues to an international, online media competition. More than 800 submissions were received...
ARAMARK Receives National Media Coverage for Innovation Awards
The ARAMARK Building Community Innovation Awards received national media coverage from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC), Biz Times, Jamaica Plain Gazette, Boston.com, WGBH-TV, WBZ-TV and WCVB-TV among others. The media commended...
One Company’s $60,000 Commitment to Jobs
Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from BCLC blog, “One Company’s $60,000 Commitment to Jobs,” June 18, 2012. In our recent job creation blog series, BCLC has taken a look at the “ecosystem” of creating and sustaining jobs. Our jobs ecosystem theory is that we need to view...
Re-Engineering the Engineer
Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from AMD blog, “Re-engineering the Engineer,” June 14, 2012 by Allyson Peerman.https://causeconsulting.com/2012/06/re-engineering-engineer/ As a global technology company, AMD relies heavily on engineers who are leaders and innovators to...
Jim Koch Speaks On Panel at CGI America
Boston Beer Company’s founder, Jim Koch, spoke on a panel focused on Sustainable and Innovative Financing at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America meeting on June 8, 2012. Other panelists included: Donna Gambrell, Director, Community Development Financial...
Feldman Participates in Clinton Global Initiative
Mark Feldman was invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago, Illinois where he participated in the Small Business Working Group. The group identified the conditions necessary for small businesses and micro-enterprises to survive and prosper....
Boston Students Celebrate with Adobe Youth Voices
Boston Public School students showcased their work created through the Adobe Youth Voices program, a global movement to empower youth in underserved communities to communicate their ideas, exhibit their potential, and take action in their communities. The Jeremiah E....
2012 ARAMARK Awards Recognize Programs that Put People to Work
The second annual ARAMARK Building Community Innovation Awards honor and support programs that are proven to put people to work and serve as best practice examples of new, creative solutions that help families succeed and revitalize neighborhoods. As part of these...
WSJ, CNN & More Cover Brewing the American Dream Expansion
The national expansion of Brewing the American Dream was reported in The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, CNBC, Boston Business Journal, Boston.com, Yahoo Finance, among others. It was also covered in Food & Beverage news outlets around the country. All About Beer...
ARAMARK Wins National Restaurant Association Neighbor Award
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) recognized ARAMARK’s commitment to communities through ARAMARK Building Community, the company’s signature philanthropy program, with the 2012 Restaurant Neighbor Award. The award celebrates outstanding charitable service...
ARAMARK Building Community Launches 2012 Campaign
ARAMARK announces an additional $1 million investment in grants, in-kind resources, and volunteer support to community centers nationwide through its signature philanthropic program, ARAMARK Building Community (ABC). The commitment includes $100,000 for the second...
AMD Changing the Game Recognized
AMD Changing the Game, the company’s global signature education program, was honored as a Computerworld Honor Laureate under the training & education category. The training and education category recognizes innovative use of IT to create and improve learning...
#2 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s Top Agency List – Cause Consulting
Cause Consulting is ranked #2 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s Top Agency List based on client satification surveys – Quality + breadth of service are top criteria.
Sam Adams Founder Jim Koch in Fast Company
Fast Company's "Expert Blog" features a candid interview with Sam Adams Founder Jim Koch where he describes his passion for beer, innovation, and his inspiration for launching Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, the company’s core philanthropy program. The...
Cause Consulting’s New Website
This week we’ll formally launch our new causeconsulting.com website. Now that our version 3.0 is up, we’ve forced ourselves to pause, reflect and take the time to read our own stuff. Wow, we’ve covered a lot of ground. We are truly grateful for the gift of being able to work with and learn from so many amazing clients, colleagues and friends. Each week as the corporate responsibility field evolves, we find ourselves engaged in even more new and exciting work. We are lucky!
As I step back to reflect, it is clear that what we do continues to be more relevant and important. Our progression from strategic signature programs, to corporate responsibility, to social innovation mirrors the maturation and expansion of our field. We are fortunate to work inside of some of the world’s most respected companies and brands and help them harness their resources toward creating both business and social value. It has been amazing to see how social impact-related ideas rally diverse groups of employees and consumers to action, and impact. This is how change happens.
Corporate Citizenship Communication – Feldman + Korn Lead Workshop at BC Corporate Citizenship Management Academy
Mark Feldman and Nikki Korn taught a workshop on corporate citizenship communications as part of the week long BCCCC Corporate Citizenship Management Academy, a professional development and certificate program for corporate citizenship managers held at the Boston...
Cause Consulting Joins Billion + Change National Pro-Bono Campaign
Cause Consulting has joined the Billion + Change campaign by pledging to provide hundreds of hours of pro-bono services to non-profits. The campaign aims to encourage companies across America to start or expand their skills-based volunteer programs in order to...
ARAMARK Announces $100,000 ARAMARK Building Community 2012 Innovation Awards
ARAMARK launched the ARAMARK Building Community 2012 Innovation Awards. These awards, which will provide a total of $100,000 in grants, will honor one community center executive director for visionary leadership, and will recognize three community centers for...
Youth Design Competition Winners Announced – Cause Consulting Sponsor
Cause Consulting was proud to be a Youth Design partner and the sponsor of the 2011 Youth Design Time to Design Competition. This past summer, the urban high school teens in the Youth Design Internship program were tasked to design an image or a message about a...
Youth Design Helps Urban Teens Find Path
“Opened my eyes to possibilities.” “Embraced and treated me like a professional.” “Best summer of my life.” These are some of the many testimonials that the audience heard from teens at the 2011 Youth Design graduation. For many, this was the first time they had...
WOW, Adobe Youth Voices Live!
I recently attended my first Adobe Youth Voices Live! event at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). I was blown away by the films and other media produced by the Boston AYV youth. Please take time to check them out
9 Years of Storytelling at Cause Marketing Forum
I often say that one of my life’s purposes is to bear witness to the stories of human suffering and joy, to improve on and honor these circumstances, and to tell those stories.
And that theme could not have echoed more loudly than over the past twos days I spent at the 11thAnnual Cause Marketing Forum in Chicago. For the past nine years companies, nonprofits, and those of us who work with them to create meaningful, high impact programs, have gathered to share tales of success, missteps and growth in our field.
The tales we tell are those of partnerships, programs, societal issues and needs, and, most importantly, narratives of the people and places whose state in our world is better as a consequence of our collective work.
Heard it at the Home Depot
So my husband went to Home Depot this weekend and like any good Samuel Adams drinker, he was wearing his “Just Brew It” t-shirt.
The woman who helped him complimented him on his shirt and asked whether he works at Sam Adams. He said, “no, but my wife works closely with them on their philanthropy program.”
She said: “Oh, Brewing the American Dream?”
He said: “Yeah, do you know it?”
Brewing the American Dream Gains National Attention
Today is Patriot’s Day in New England, a perfect day to celebrate news that another revolution is storming the country. We are thrilled to share that the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, among others have been spreading the word about the expansion of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Program. This philanthropic initiative provides small food, beverage, and hospitality businesses with micro-loans, access to business coaching, and opportunities to showcase their products.
This month the program formally expanded its Loan Fund from five New England states to small brewers nation-wide, and to food and beverage and hospitality entrepreneurs in Ohio, Greater Lehigh Valley PA, and the five boroughs of New York City.