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Corporate Responsibility

When clients come to us for advice on how to use private funds to finance social goals, they almost always frame their objectives in terms of philanthropy.

While for high net worth individuals, charitable donations might be the ideal vehicle to achieve personal dreams of “giving something back”; when it comes to corporate responsibility we help private companies develop a Triple Bottom Line approach to governance by maintaining that critical balance between the economic, environmental and social dimensions of business activity.

Clients we work with understand that corporate responsibility is about more than promoting diversity or improving green credentials. By reframing corporate responsibility, from a series of feel-good activities to a resource to be drawn on for competitive advantage, we give firms the edge by providing them with cutting-edge, practical advice on Doing Good to Do Well.

Our triple bottom line approach is based on investment fundamentals - strategy, performance management and reporting – the overriding objective of which is creating sustainable economic, environmental and social value for corporate stakeholders. Firms value this approach because it imposes a coherent framework that removes the gap between business strategies and corporate responsibility initiatives, making corporate responsibility central to the business.

Drawing on extensive experience working internationally on sustainable human development with civil society, national governments and within multilateral banks and organisations, we are able to act as brokers who can bring together the interests of business with the environmental and social goals of society.