Glossary
C-Level
Corporate Activism
Corporate Citizenship
Corporate Giving
Corporate Impact Investing
Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR )
The top management personnel of various company divisions . The ‘ C ’ stands for Chief , as in Chief Executive Offer , Chief Operating Officer or Chief Financial Officer .
Targeting voters and political decision-makers to bring about legislative or regulatory change for the better .
The proactive , social engagement of a company for the primary benefit of the environment and society .
Financial or non-financial donations , primarily to non-profit organisations ( e . g . associations , foundations and charitable limited liability companies ).
Investment in business models that use market-based approaches to solve social problems .
In its broadest definition , it refers to the economic , legal , ethical and discretionary responsibilities that a company has towards society .
Corporate Volunteering
Deutscher Aktienindex ( DAX )
ESG
ESG-Reporting- Standards
Impact
Focuses on involving a company ’ s own employees in its Corporate Citizenship activities and thereby achieving a social impact as well as conveying values and a sense of responsibility internally .
The most important German share index . It measures the performance of the 40 largest companies on the German stock exchange in terms of annual turnover and free float market capitalisation .
Environmental , Social and Governance issues and metrics used by investors and other stakeholders to assess the sustainability of a company .
ESG reporting standards define issues and metrics for sustainability reporting and thereby ( implicitly or explicitly ) set a normative vision for sustainable corporate behaviour . Prominent examples are GRI , SASB , TCFD and CDSB .
Overall social impact achieved by an intervention .
Input
Resources used in the context of the Corporate Citizenship programme .
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