Questions? Contact us at ccc.bc.edu
ONLINE | Corporate Citizenship Certificate of Practice
BCCCC offers a Corporate Citizenship Certificate of Practice, allowing CSR professionals to grow their understanding of the changing field. This certificate program is very flexible as it can be completely fully online, is self-paced, and offers multiple elective courses to best fit the needs of your CSR position. To gain the Certificate in Practice, you must take three required courses, and any two electives from our extensive list of courses.
Access to more in-depth content is available to BCCCC members.
Certificate Requirements
To complete this certificate program, you need to enroll in five total courses. Along with two electives, you must take three required courses: Corporate Citizenship Strategy, Impact Measurement for Corporate Citizenship, and Corporate Citizenship Communications
Required Courses
Corporate Citizenship Strategy
This course will help you employ effective business strategy models to align your CSR efforts with company goals and gain the support of senior leaders.
Impact Measurement
You're creating change in your business and the community, but can you quantify the value of it? This interactive course will help you build an effective measurement program to do just that.
Corporate Citizenship Communications
This course will help you increase program awareness, develop campaigns that engage stakeholders, and craft overall more persuasive, compelling messages.
Choose Two Elective Courses
Corporate Citizenship 101: ESG Fundamentals
This introductory course covers the primary concepts, ideas, and language of corporate citizenship, offering practical models and useful tools.
Corporate Citizenship Partnership Management
The most effective partnerships between corporations and NPOs bring together complementary skills and resources that enable partners to achieve together goals that neither could accomplish alone.
Fundamentals of Employee Volunteer Programs
This course will give you the tools to create or continuously improve volunteer programs that are highly recognizable, valued programs that help build better partnerships, deepen engagement among employees, and contribute to the company’s visibility and reputation.
Brand and Reputation: Build Trust with Stakeholders
This course explores how corporate citizenship professionals can create more business and social value by building the networks, resilience, and results that lead to a better brand.
Preparing Teams for Nonprofit Board Service
This program provides you with the training to support a robust nonprofit board service program as part of your overall corporate citizenship commitment.
Opportunity, Inclusion & Workforce Engagement
This course explains how businesses with a strong inclusion culture demonstrate better financial performance, higher rates of recruitment and retention, and more robust innovation.
Deepening Employee Engagement
This course explores strategies and leading practices for designing CSR programs that improve employee engagement.
Supply Chain Management
Whether you are concerned with increasing participation in volunteer programs, reporting, or improving environmental impacts, this program can help you connect with essential partners—both inside the company and beyond.
Advanced Impact Measurement
This course outlines how to measure the outcomes and impacts of CSR efforts, exploring different methods to capture the value created for both company and community.
Fundamentals of Sustainability Reporting
This course dives into the benefits of reporting, such as highlighting corporate culture, improving performance along the environmental, social, or governance (ESG) dimensions of business informing strategy, establishing accountability, providing transparency, or engaging employees.
Integrated Reporting: Connecting ESG Metrics with Overall Performance
This course will teach you how to leverage an integrated report as a management tool that will help guide your company toward greater collaboration and better decision-making.
CDP Reporting: Measuring Environmental Impact
This course enhances your reporting capability, highlights alignment with other frameworks such as the Global Reporting Index (GRI) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and familiarizes participants with the background, methodology, and questionnaire.
Reporting with the GRI Standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the most commonly used reporting framework, and is used not only to report progress on ESG investments, but also to improve internal management and governance practices around sustainability.
Reporting with the ISSB
Aligning with ISSB standards helps companies identify inefficiencies, cut costs, and manage sustainability-related risks more effectively.
CSRD Aligned Reporting
The CSRD emphasizes a "double materiality" approach, requiring companies to report on how their business is impacted by sustainability risks and opportunities, as well as how their own activities impact society and the environment. Take this course to help your company get prepared.
Fundamentals of Environmental Sustainability
Today’s businesses can positively differentiate themselves by developing commitments that make good business and environmental sense. This course provides an overview of concepts, tools, and resources that can get you started.
Corporate Giving: Maximizing Effectiveness
This course will show you how to select and evaluate partners, measure impact, and better determine where your philanthropic investments can have the most positive impact.
Stakeholder and Material Issues Management
This course will provide tools to prioritize stakeholder relationships, identify material issues, and engage stakeholders to collect valuable feedback that can help you to maximize business and social value.
Why Choose BCCCC for Corporate Citizenship Certification?
Perfectly Sized Cohorts
You are guaranteed to feel seen and heard throughout this program, which never includes more than 25 participants per year.
Globally Recognized
BCCCC certificates are recognized by companies all over the world as the gold standard in corporate citizenship scholarship.
Real-World Applicability
Bring your current goals and challenges into this program. Coursework is designed to help address the real-world work on your plate.
Lasting Peer Connections
Keep the conversation going after your week on campus ends. Participants form a lasting peer group that provides knowledge and support.
Certificate Tuition
| Number of Courses | Member Rate | Non-Member Rate |
| 1 | $2,130 | $2,900 |
| 2 | $3,834 | $5,220 |
| 3 | $5,751 | $7,830 |
| 4 | $7,668 | $10,440 |
| 5 | $9,585 | $13,050 |
To earn your Corporate Citizenship Certificate of Practice you must complete five total courses (three required & two electives). However, you do not need to register for all five courses at once. This program allows you to work at your own pace (and according to your available budget). You can build up to the five-course requirement over time, if necessary. That said, the most cost-effective approach would be to register for all five courses at the same time. See the pricing chart above to better understand the advantage of bundling. Questions? Contact us at ccc@bc.edu.
Interested in taking some of your courses in person? Attend an upcoming Summit, where you'll enjoy real-time class discussion and opportunities to connect with CSR peers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Anyone working in corporate citizenship can learn and gain from this experience, which offers a broad-based exploration of the field. Courses in strategy, impact measurement and communication are required, while two elective courses allow participants to shape the week around more niche professional interests.
None. This program is accessible to professionals at all levels. No prerequisites are required. However, participants must be employed at a for-profit company or corporate foundation. In some cases, eligibility extends to employees at nonprofit healthcare organizations, credit unions, or consulting firms (if the organization has a dedicated corporate citizenship/sustainability department). Nonprofit professionals, consultants, students, and academics are not eligible.
Please reach out to ccc@bc.edu. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.
