30 Awesome Corporate Social Responsibility Resources To Help You Stay on Top of Trends

We took last week off in prep for WeSpire: Live! (it was awesome, check it out) but now we are back in a HUGE way.

You may remember we were in the middle of a 3 part series looking at tools to bring your CSR and ESG to the next level. Well this week in part 3 we focus on the most critical tool of all.

YOU!

So we compiled 30 essential resources below with newsletters to subscribe to, conferences to attend, experts to follow, job boards to scour, and more.

We guarantee some of these will be a game changer for you CSR LinkedIn so share it and let us know what you think. We will keep this resource up to date with new additions!

Experts to Follow

1. Susan Hunt Stevens , WeSpire’s Founder & CEO of WeSpire, provides expertise on engaging employees in purpose-driven initiatives ranging from sustainability and social impact to holistic wellbeing and inclusive culture.
2. Leon Kaye: as Triple Pundit’s executive editor, Kaye writes extensively on topics including energy, corporate activism, supply chain, circular economy and governance.
3. David Hessekiel leads Cause Marketing Forum (parent company of Engage For Good) and tweets about all things social impact and corporate philanthropy.
4. Joel Makower is chairman and co-founder of GreenBiz Group, a media and events company focusing at the intersection of business, technology and sustainability. For more than 30 years, through his writing, speaking and leadership, he has helped companies align pressing environmental and social issues with business success.

Newsletters

1. WeSpire Weekly: Our weekly newsletter provides insights on how to infuse your employee experience with purpose and develop impactful wellbeing, sustainability, social impact and inclusive culture initiatives.??
2. Saturday Spark: Saturday Spark is a newsletter for purpose-driven leaders of all kinds. Join WeSpire Founder and CEO Susan Hunt Stevens in a weekly reflection on the principles and beliefs that are of central importance in your life and your business.
3. Sustainability Decoded: In his weekly LinkedIn newsletter, Tim Mohin provides a list of curated articles and resources to help you keep up with what’s happening in the sustainability space.??
4. ESG Today’s newsletter is focused on “finance with purpose,” and covers topics at the crossroads of ESG and finance.
5. Sustainable Brands newsletters cover the latest innovations in ESG and social impact, and how the world’s biggest brands are working to make the world a better place.?
6. Triple Pundit offers daily and weekly newsletters with the latest stories that make the business case for corporate responsibility, sustainability, and the private sector's leadership to secure social justice and fair economic opportunities for all.?
7. ACCP’s The Wrap Newsletter provides the latest corporate social responsibility news, trends and events, sent to you weekly.

Conferences & Workshops

1. Sustainable Brands holds events for ESG leaders all around the world. Their flagship conference, held annually in the United States, brings together purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society.
2. Engage For Good is one of the premier conferences for social impact professionals, bringing together companies and nonprofits under one roof to talk about corporate philanthropy, volunteerism, CSR and cause marketing.
3. GreenBiz’ annual conference brings together more than 1,500 sustainability professionals every year to talk about achieving net zero, advancing the circular economy, elevating social justice, safeguarding biodiversity, building resilient supply chains and more.
4. ACCP’s annual conference is aimed at CSR practitioners and covers topics ranging from equity & inclusion, ESG, impact measurement, global social impact and professional growth and career progression.?

Live Series & Webinars

1. WeSpire: Live! Hosted by WeSpire Founder & CEO, Susan Hunt Stevens, we welcome industry experts and influencers to drive conversation with the ESG/CSR community. Every session is based around a different topic, with different guest speakers. WeSpire: Live! is in its early stages but has already boasted some of the top minds in the industry. Youtube
2. ACCP Webcasts hosts a variety of webinars every month covering topics from employee engagement to impact measurement, ESG strategies and more.??
3. CECP Events: CECP empowers corporations to be a force for good in society and their events series reflects this. Join in-person and virtual roundtable discussions on CSR topics ranging from employee engagement to net zero and more.
4. BCCCC Webinars & Virtual Events: BCCCC hosts monthly virtual events to help you stay ahead of the topics and trends that are shaping corporate citizenship. Note: you must be a BCCCC member to participate.

Podcasts

1. Greenbiz 350: Co-hosted by Joel Makower and Heather Clancy, GreenBiz350 is the weekly podcast about the people and companies behind the headlines in sustainable business and clean technology.?
2. Cause Talk Radio: In Engage For Good’s social impact podcast series, Communications Director Megan Strand interviews ESG experts from top companies using business as a force for good.
3. Mindful Business Podcast: Host Vidhya Iyer brings innovators, business leaders and thought leaders to share their stories and inspire listeners about sustainable innovations, green products and mindful organizations.?
4. WorkLife With Adam Grant: For CSR professionals working in or interested in employee engagement, organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most unusual professionals to explore the science of making work not suck.

CSR Job Boards

1. ACCP Job Board: the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals maintains a job board with postings from member companies that range from philanthropy to sustainability, community relations and everything in between.?
2. BSR Job Board: BSR’s job board includes job openings at BSR member companies. Job postings tend to skew heavily toward sustainability, ESG and stakeholder engagement.
3. Weinreb Group: Weinreb Group is a global, boutique, and woman-owned placement agency that collaborates with clients to find, vet and place well-qualified ESG and sustainability candidates.?
4. B Work: B Work is a partnership between B Lab and Fitzii that helps connect purpose-driven jobseekers with positions at social enterprises focused on using business as a force for good.?
5. Reconsidered Impact Jobs Hub: Every other week, Reconsidered shares a hand-picked selection of the most fascinating impact roles popping up at companies and organizations around the world.?