Giving Compass' Take:
- Companies can earn goodwill by leveraging their assets to address social problems like access to the digital economy.
- What assets, other than financial, can companies deploy to tackle important social issues? How can companies orient their culture around social contributions?
- Read seven lessons of corporate social responsibility.
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A strategic approach to solving the most critical problems around the world starts with a look at sobering numbers. The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risks Report highlights that 70% of young people live on less than US$3.10 per day, and 90% of the world’s population breathes polluted air. The World Economic Forum has listed economic inequality as one of the most important global trends of our time.
Cisco’s innovative approach to social impact combines ambitious, long-term goals with expertise and rigorous, data-driven decisions. In 2015, the company set an ambitious goal based on the belief that everyone should have the chance to participate in the digital economy: Cisco would leverage its technology and expertise to accelerate global problem solving, positively impacting one billion people by 2025. To date, the company is almost one-third of the way there, having positively impacted more than 232 million people.
Read the full article about digital economy access at TriplePundit.