For entrepreneurs and founders just getting their businesses off the ground, searching for ways to make a positive impact on people and the planet can feel daunting. You may often feel like meaningful impact projects are time consuming and impede your ability to focus on your own work. Luckily, as the sector of corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to grow, many companies and organizations are creating innovative tools that enable you to advance positive change with relative ease.

Below is a list of 10 simple tools that any business leader — even those who just launched their business — can use to be a force for good.

  • Gifts for Good is a Los Angeles based start-up bringing employee gifting into the modern age. Gifts for Good aims to integrate social good and giving back with corporate gifting all year-round. Whether gifting for holidays, promotions, or thank yous, Gifts for Good has got it covered from handmade candles, to luxe leather totes, to unique wooden headphones. All gifts support a wide range of nonprofits and charitable causes including: children-in-need, economic development, the environment, homelessness, health, women-at-risk, and more.
  • Percent Pledge helps you donate a small percentage of each month’s budget to causes you’re passionate about. The platform will keep you continuously updated on the impact of your pledge throughout the year. Percent Pledge’s corporate social responsibility solution does all the work for you allowing you to easily give back and your team to focus on growing your business.
  • The Charity Charge Business MasterCard helps empower startups to effortlessly give back everyday. The card allows seamless corporate social responsibility by allowing your business to earn cash back that’s automatically donated to any nonprofit of your company’s choice. There is no annual fee and the percentage that is automatically donated with every purchase is tax-deductible. You are also allowed unlimited employee cards, so you can get your employees involved as well.

Read the full article about corporate social responsibility by Grant Trahant at Causeartist.