CSR ideas

As you read through each idea, think about how you could implement it in your organisation, align with your values and integrate into your culture.

Sponsor a Fundraiser

Hold fundraisers, from school sports teams to local charities or national campaigns. Ask your employees to choose a charity, local or regional, or a corporate charity. Then create charity focus groups to partner with the charity and educate, raise awareness and organise events. It's a great feel good factor, but also creates  a sense of teambuilding and belonging.

Offer Academic Scholarships

The price of higher education has been increasing at a staggering rate for decades. Even a small amount of financial help can benefit a prospective college student. Small businesses could hold a scholarship competition for exceptional high school seniors. Make connections with education organisations, either in your field or aligned to your business activities. Perhaps you are in engineering and offer engineering scholarships or have a branch in an under developed country and help students there.

Volunteer days

Offer everyone a volunteer day per year and let them choose their own cause to support. Perhaps create a team building day where you do the gardening at a local hospice, paint the homeless shelter or serve food at a soup kitchen. Contact your local volunteer service, church or other service based organisations to get ideas.

Adopt a school/shelter/hospital in a rural or deprived area

Provide digital education, workshops, mentoring for others.

Collaborate with an NGO

NGOs are organizations that are continuously fighting for a social cause. The companies can join hands with an NGO and help them out by providing monetary funds and otherwise. The employees of the company can also volunteer to join the NGO in carrying out various activities it organizes.

Organise blood donation camps

Blood donation is considered to be one of the best ways to give back to the societies. Companies intending to further their corporate social responsibility can organize blood donation camps and invite general public to donate blood alongside their employees.

Donate sports or technology equipment to schools

Organise food donations for food banks

Give incentives to employees who choose to cycle/walk to work or choose electric cars

Offer remote working days and calculate the carbon footprint

Go plastic free in the cafeteria or discuss plastic free with local coffee shops

Offer pro-bono services if you are in the service industry

Host a fitness challenge to raise money and increase fitness and wellbeing

Fundraising matching - every penny your people raise, match it

Offer your buildings for charities or groups after hours.

Buy Local

Go paperless

Go meatless

Reuse or even remove office desk bins

Reduce Your Energy Consumption

Join B1G1  and pay it forward for every invoice paid or sale made.

Help Global Causes and align to a UN Global Goal

There are so many ways that you can make a difference. There is no excuse not to.