Our team at CSRspace helps clients identify innovative approaches to meeting CSR goals. We assist our clients at any stage of their journey – or accompany them from beginning to end. Regardless of whether a client has an in-house CSR team or not, our job is to provoke thought and find new ways to invest CSR budgets in meaningful projects. Our CSR Services include:
Strategic Planning
Invest in building a durable global and/or local Social License to Operate through projects that have clear long term relevance for a community and a clear exit strategy for the investor.
Intelligent Opportunities
Utilize Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in education and informing community members and other stakeholders on ongoing initiatives, work opportunities, and.CSR investments.
Project Management
Sound project management is critical to maintain focus and remain on track, stay within budget, and achieve the goals set in the project scope.
Integrated Master Plan
Ensure the community has a cIMP, either by using CSR financing to develop one or requiring that the process be undertaken locally. Ensure that any proposed CSR project is scoped to succeed within cIMP guidelines.
Leveraged Investment
Use CSR seed money to leverage a basket of financing options to build on original seed projects identified in the cIMP to advance a community towards its S3C goals.
- Leverage CSR funds to add on to an existing planned project so that it becomes smart or sustainable or achieved community goals for meaningful lasting change in existing development.
- Create a basket of CSR funds with other companies seeking to invest in socially responsible projects locally. Leverage funds to finance a series of projects, or in one larger initiative.
- Use CSR funding to kick off a project that can attract grant money or direct private investment.
Sustained Capacity Building
Safeguard the Social License to Operate and the firm’s reputation by building an understanding of opportunities and choices in the local community to absorb full ownership of projects resulting from deployment of CSR investments.
Inclusive Process
Clear stakeholder engagement from project concept to implementation, documented and validated for each major intervention in accordance with reporting requirements.
Branding & Reporting
CSR Reporting on a periodic basis in support of the social license to operate is included with project branding efforts.