Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose
Creating a better world through business
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
A company's social strategy- how it engages with key stakeholders including employees, communities, investors, and customers- determines a company's success.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Member Engagement
CECP's strength is in the power of its network and shared commitment of CEO members to promote the case for corporate philanthropy. Membership represents more than 150 of the most important and influential companies worldwide, which account for over 40% of reported corporate giving. For more information visit cecp.co.
Where we work
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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
CECP empowers corporations to be a force for good in society through advising companies on their strategy topics and supporting their cross-functional initiatives with communications, finance, investor relations, human resources, supply chain, and other parts of the business.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
CECP helps companies transform their social strategy by providing customized connections and networking, counsel and support, benchmarking and trends, and awareness building and recognition. Through CECP's strategies such as the annual Giving in Numbers report, benchmarking survey and valuation guidance, benchmarking and analysis, and roadmap strategy, we are able to help companies effectively.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
CECP advises companies on a range of strategy topics including employee engagement, grant making, volunteerism, budgets, impact, measurement, and communications. Our staff has expertise in the following areas and our organization operates as a high-performance culture with deep emphasis on professional growth such as social strategies, stakeholders such as investors, CEOs, corporate Leaders, and business strategies.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
CECP has grown to a movement of more than 200 of the world’s largest companies that represent $11.2 trillion in revenues, $23 billion in total community investment, 14 million employees, 30 million hours of employee engagement, and $21 trillion in assets under management. We have launched the CEO Investor forum, Accelerate Communities, Giving in Numbers 2020 Edition and in 2019 celebrated 20 years. What's next for CECP is to continue to increase our movement while forge peer connections, advancing narrative and recognition strategies, and creating and share long-term investor facing plans for companies to continue to strive being a good force in society.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
The 2020-2021 Accelerate Communities
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose
Board of directorsas of 01/30/2023
Mr. Doug Conant
Founder and CEO, ConantLeadership; Former CEO, Campbell Soup Company; Former Chairman, Avon Products, Inc.
Douglas Conant
Founder and CEO, ConantLeadership; Former CEO, Campbell Soup Company; Former Chairman, Avon Products, Inc.
Sara Armbruster
President and CEO Steelcase Inc.
Theodore Dysart
Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
Richard Edelman
CEO & President, Edelman
Alex Gorsky
Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
Kelly Grier
US Chair, Managing Partner, & Americas Managing Partner, EY
Mauricio Gutiérrez
President and CEO, NRG
Alan Hassenfeld
Chairman, Hasbro, Inc.
Fran Horowitz
CEO, Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Barbara Humpton
CEO, US, Siemens Corporation
Philippe Krakowsky
CEO, Interpublic Group
Rochelle Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy & Mather
F. William McNabb III
Former Chairman and CEO, Vanguard
Deanna Mulligan
Board Chair, The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America
Suresh Muthuswami
Chariman of North America, Tata Consultancy Services
Christiana Riley
CEO, Deutsche Bank USA Corp Member of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank AG
Jennifer Smith Turner
Former President & CEO, Newman’s Own Foundation
James White
Former Chairman, President & CEO, Jamba Juice
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.