About Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Join the Center that's been leading the way in corporate citizenship for 40 years.
BCCCC is a membership organization dedicated to helping companies—regardless of industry or starting point—know more, do more, and achieve more with their CSR, sustainability, and reporting efforts.
10,000+
Corporate Citizenship Professionals
~400
Companies Served Annually
$80B
Market Cap of BCCCC Members
Countless
Resources, Learning Opportunities, and Ways to Get Involved
We combine the most valuable aspects of a professional network and the resources of a leading academic institution. Our membership includes ~400 socially responsible companies and over 10,000 individual professionals from companies around the world. Our Center is housed within the Boston College Carroll School of Management.
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BCCCC is comprised of hundreds of company members. The list above highlights some of the members who serve on our Executive Advisory Board.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to help people in companies get better results from environmental, social, and governance efforts by supporting their decision making with empirical evidence, and offering real-time peer support.
What BCCCC Offers Its Members
Research & Benchmarking
Knowledge from the field; data and statistics on emerging trends; case studies; survey results; peer-reviewed findings, and more—all to help you make your business case or shape your CSR programs.
Collaboration & Networking
Companies leverage BCCCC membership to unlock networking and knowledge-sharing events—both in-person and online.
World-class Executive Education
Being knowledgeable means staying competitive--both for individual CSR practitioners and for companies looking to differentiate themselves. BCCCC offers world-class courses, certificate programs, and custom team trainings.
BCCCC provides knowledge and learning opportunities that help business professionals address ESG opportunities and risks from wherever they sit in their companies.
Members Say...
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FAQs About BCCCC
Corporate citizenship is how a company exercises its rights, obligations, privileges, and overall corporate responsibility within our local and global environments.
Great question, especially as the field has evolved, and as "ESG" has become something of a buzzword—with a fuzzy definition. Corporate citizenship is the combination of rights, responsibilities, obligations, and privileges of a firm, as exercised within society. In other words, corporate citizenship is the whole topic. ESG, CSR, and sustainability are elements within this larger whole. CSR is the activity that's happening within a firm. The projects. The campaigns and initiatives. It might take place inside a specific department or, ideally, be extended throughout and aligned with the entire company. ESG is the taxonomy. It's the way in which we categorize corporate citizenship efforts: some are environmental; some are socially based; others are governance related. Taken together, all these efforts are part of the work that is corporate citizenship.
Simply put, BCCCC is the longest-standing community and resource center of its kind. We have been working with senior business leaders and corporate citizenship practitioners for 40 years. Since 1985, we’ve been helping companies make more effective social and environmental investments. BCCCC was founded the same year that scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer. Our Center was the first of its kind to address the need for professional development and executive education about ESG matters for people in companies. In 1995, when the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was founded, we had 260 members. Three decades later, we’re still on the leading edge of CSR program strategy and ESG reporting requirements.
The measurement and return on investment (ROI) of corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship is defined by how well companies responsibly manage not only their financial performance but also their environmental and social impact. Whether we call it CSR, corporate responsibility, or ESG, effective corporate citizenship goes beyond a focus on addressing surface-level sustainability efforts or corporate philanthropy.
If you're looking for tools, guidelines, research, or advice on building your company's corporate citizenship programs, you've come to the right place. Explore this website for educational opportunities, data-backed insights (some freely available; others members-only), and upcoming events for you and your CSR team. And if your company is not already a member, learn more about the benefits of joining.