The Social Impact Show

In todays episode, you’ll learn the key trends in corporate purpose from the latest state of corporate purpose report. We explore the state of corporate purpose, and key findings from top businesses involved with corporate purpose.  Timestamp of our conversation 1:07 - How has Corporate Purpose evolved over the past 3-5 years? 4:07 - Was the momentum behind social impact initiatives (i.e. ESG, DEI...

In today’s episode, you’ll learn how a new Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) report can improve your DEI and social impact programs in the workplace. We chat with Sona Khosla, Chief Impact Officer with Benevity and Tiffany, an ERG leader, and explore the state of DEI in the workplace today and how it has changed since the pandemic. We also discuss challenges with DEI in workplace and key findin...

In today’s episode, you’ll learn about the pitch phase of building your social impact strategy. We explore how to develop your presentation to leadership or executives. How to frame your presentation, when to pitch and then what to do after. Timestamp of our conversation: 0:34 - Building a Social Impact Strategy Part 5: The Pitch 1:45 - Who is “The Pitch” for? 4:43 - Format or template for your pr...

In today’s episode, you’ll learn about the advocacy phase of building your social impact strategy. We explore how to find your employee and executive champions and how to keep them engaged. We also discuss where to find the unlikely advocates and how to line them up before making your strategy pitch. Timestamp of our discussion:  0:51 - How to build a social impact strategy: Part 4 - Advocacy 2:13...

In this episode, you’ll learn the articulate or problem solving phase when building a social impact strategy. This means the steps to take so you have a clear understanding of the problems or problems your program will look to solve. And how to align that with your company’s business goals This is part 2 of our 5 part series on building a social impact and corporate social responsibility strategy....

In today’s episode, you’ll learn about the benchmarking or back it up phase when building a social impact strategy. We discuss how to set the right measurement goals for your program and the impact of an opportunist or risk-adverse leader. Timestamp of our conversation 0:46 - How to build a social impact strategy: Part 3 - Back it up 2:20 - Understand what your decision makers care about 3:45 - Ho...

In this episode, you'll learn how to conduct research when building your social impact and corporate social responsibility strategy. We chat with Nicole McPhail, Co-founder and Managing Partner with Darwin Pivot, and explore connecting your strategy with business priorities, getting employees feedback, and how to differentiate between outcomes and outputs. Finally, we give you the first steps to d...

In this episode, you'll learn about the challenges in social impact data collection . We explore how UCLA's Center for Impact is tackling the problem with their Open for Good Platform. We also discuss what are the key areas to focus on when measuring impact.  Timestamp of our conversation: 1:17 - Kelly Clark's Career Journey 2:56 - Center for Impact at UCLA 7:27 - What are the challenges of data c...

In this video, we discuss the state of corporate volunteering and how it’s changed the past two years. We chat with Jerome Tennille from the Uplift Agency and explore the new forms of volunteering since the pandemic. We talk about the difference between outcomes and outputs in corporate volunteering and employee engagement programs. Timestamp of our conversation: 0:59 - State of Corporate Voluntee...

In this episode, you’ll learn about the current state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace and explore what’s changed since the beginning of the pandemic. We chat with Jerome Tennille with the Uplift Agency, discuss the impacts of layoffs and current economic conditions. Finally, we look at what the future looks like for DEI.  Timestamp of our conversation: 0:44 - Diversity, Equity...

In this episode, you'll learn all about Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) from what they are, history and evolution, as well as why they are beneficial. We also discuss, how to start one, how to encourage people to join and how to keep engagement. Finally we explore if all businesses actually need an ERG. Timestamp of our conversation: 0:58 - What is an employee resource groups? 2:02 - What are the...

In today's episode, you'll learn how standardized reporting will revolutionize social impact and philanthropy, both for funders and the non-profits. We chat with Heather King, Vice President of Evidence and Implementation, Chief Ontologist, Impact Genome and explore the challenges of current social impact measurement and how Impact Genome is looking to solve this. We also discuss Impact Sciences,...

In this episode, you'll learn how Web3 is creating new opportunities in social impact. We explore how the Black Women Network has leveraged Web3 to help black women entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses. We also discuss how social impact pros can bring Web3 in to their programs and what the potential benefits are.  Timestamp of our discussion: 1:01 - Intro into Web3 2:04 - How is Web3 and...

In this episode, you'll learn how to assess and buy corporate social responsibility software. We explore what questions to ask about product development and the health and longevity of the company. We dive into the pitfalls of customization and why a fully customizable solution isn't necessarily the best way forward. Finally, we discuss how to connect a software's capability with the maturity of y...

In today's episode, you'll learn where the corporate social responsibility industry is headed. We explore how world events shape CSR and social impact as well as trends on how businesses will integrate CSR into the future. This is part 2 of our series on the Future of CSR. Listen to Part 1 in the previous episode Timestamp of our discussion: 1:07 - Where is social impact headed? 4:38 - Social Impa...

In today's episode, you'll learn how corporate social responsibility profession has changed and what's shaping its future. We discuss its history, what the profession looks like today and how the role will continue to evolve in the the future. Timestamp of our discussion: 0:52 - History of the corporate social responsibility professional 3:56 - When did CSR become a profession 5:36 - What does the...

In this episode, you'll learn how social impact and environmental sustainability can work together. We chat with Michael Wong, Environmental Sustainability Manager with Ferguson, and explore everything about GHG emissions as well as how to start and scale an environment and sustainability program in your business.   00:53 - What should we understand about GHG emissions? 3:20 - Is there standard re...

In today's episode, you'll learn why social impact data is important for donors when selecting which charities to give to. We chat with Heather King, Vice President of Evidence and Implementation and Chief Ontologist at Impact Genome, and explore how donor decisions actually change when provided with data. Finally, we discuss how to standardize social impact data   Timestamp of our discussion: 1:0...

In this episode, you'll learn about the skilled worker shortage across North America and how social impact can help find solutions.   We chat with Melissa Hazelwood from Ferguson, and explore the current and future impacts of the skilled worker shortage, how career perceptions have changed and what's currently being done to address these shortages.    Timestamp of our discussion: 0:46 - What is th...

In this episode, you'll learn about the "S" in ESG and why it needs clear reporting standards to measure its impact in a business. We explore the importance of social impact data, discuss the Impact Genome Registry and what benefits it provides to companies and social impact professionals. 1:04 - "Centre for Impact Sciences and Impact Genome Project" 6:25 - "What does the "S" in ESG really mean?"...

In this episode, you'll learn how to start and get buy-in for your employee resource group in the workplace. We chat with business resource group (BRG) leaders from Thermo Fisher and explore how their BRG's operate, attract new members, maintain engagement and what skills they gained from being a part of and managing their respective BRGs. We also discuss how to grow a community and examples of al...

In this episode, you'll learn about employee resource groups (ERG) and an in-depth look at how they operate in a major business, Thermo Fisher. We chat with the leads of Thermo Fisher's Business Resource Groups (BRG) and explore the how to start an ERG, growing memberships, benefits of joining and why these groups are important to increasing employee engagement and fostering community within a bus...

In this episode, you'll learn how to build a social impact measurement framework and different ways to measure social impact. We chat with Nicole McPhail and Emily Hazell from Darwin Pivot, and explore social impact indicators and how to use data to assess your social impact programs. Timestamp of our discussion: 0:47 - How to build a social impact measurement framework? 5:36 - What are social imp...

In this episode, you'll learn how to measure social impact including developing a measurement strategy, how to collect data, and measurement tools to consider. We chat with Nicole McPhail and Emily Hazell from Darwin Pivot and explore how to analyze and use social impact data, what metrics to consider and how to make program decisions from the data.  Timestamp of our discussion: 1:00 - How do we c...

In this episode, you'll learn about social impact measurement, why it's important and how to get started with your CSR programs. We chat with Nicole McPhail and Emily Hazell from Darwin Pivot, and explore what is a social impact measurement framework, how to collect data and what are social impact indicators. We also discuss where ESG fits and the difference between measuring impact and measuring...