by Coro Strandberg | Oct 1, 2024 | Social Purpose
Image: Kindel Media More and more companies are adopting a social purpose as the reason their business exists. There are different definitions of a social purpose business, but fundamentally it is a business whose reason for being is to create a better world. This...
by Coro Strandberg | Apr 15, 2024 | Social Purpose
“Business leaders across Canada are increasingly aware of aligning their business with their corporate purpose. Businesses with more established [sustainability] may even be looking at putting their corporate purpose at the core of everything they do.” This is how...
by Mike Rowlands | Mar 25, 2024 | Social Purpose
Since our launch last year, the Canadian Purpose Economy Project has accelerated, mobilizing the Canadian social purpose ecosystem, developing tools to support social purpose stakeholders and influencers, and convening supporters across the country. On February 13,...
by Mike Rowlands | Oct 16, 2023 | Social Purpose
Canada’s Leading CEOs Call on Their Peers to Support a Canadian Purpose Economy “At this time of economic challenges and rising inequality, pandemic recovery, and environmental emergencies, Canadians are calling on all sectors of the economy to contribute to...
by Coro Strandberg | Jun 5, 2023 | Social Purpose
Policymakers everywhere now have a blueprint — and role models — for purposeful policy to better align corporate behaviour with public interest and to create allies for the work that lies ahead. With negative economic, social and environmental indicators spiralling,...
by Coro Strandberg | May 26, 2023 | Social Purpose
Is your board stewarding your company’s purpose? Probably not. Research by Corporate Knights shows that board mandates as reflected in their charters fail to set out the board’s role in oversight of the company’s purpose. While there are exceptions, this purpose...
