Social Impact Consulting for Corporations

CSR. Community Affairs. Corporate Giving. Employee Engagement. Stakeholder Engagement. Whatever name you call it, it’s a mandatory part of being a business today. We’ll help you make your strategy work better, for everyone.

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CSR Consulting in New York

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to increase in its importance to consumers, investors, and employees, regardless of industry, history, or size of the company. We’re here to help you build or adjust your plans to meet the needs of today, whether that’s employee engagement, thought leadership, positioning in the field, or community goodwill.

Our Expertise

Improving Current Corporate Giving Programs

Your company has a history of grant making and employee engagement, but it needs to be built out. We can help you assess your current work, identify where it can be more aligned with your business objectives, and then help you develop a business case for the plan’s widespread adoption.

Building New Comprehensive CSR and Social Impact Programs

Today’s environment requires corporations to advance public social responsibility efforts that feel right and authentic to leadership and employees. We can help you develop and launch new programs with specific goals and metrics.

Stakeholder Engagement and Executive Leadership

Social responsibility can generate opportunities for improved public affairs and for executive engagement. We understand the balance companies navigate when considering corporate social responsibility and advancing business goals. There are numerous ways that your CSR strategies can be leveraged by your public affairs, community engagement, and executive positioning goals. We work with you to find the alignments that are authentic to your CSR goals and help you build the necessary internal systems and support to better maximize them.

Typical Requests

“We need more awareness and support across the company to understand why the community affairs work is important.”
“We want to create and launch a new corporate social responsibility platform.”
“We need to increase our employee involvement in our community giving program”
“We want to make sure we’re maximizing our impact through our giving and involvement with community partners.”
“We want more people to know about the work we do, to help with our customer relations and our employee recruitment and retention plans.”
“We need help managing our corporate giving and involvement with nonprofits. Right now, there’s no centralized system to know who we are giving to, how much, or when, and we can’t tell if we’re making an impact.”

Our Approach

Our first step is to get to know you: what matters to you, your team, and stakeholders, and what challenges you face. Then we develop workflows and timelines accordingly. These workflows might include:

Creating or refining a grant-making strategy.
Building internal engagement to support a plan for deeper community engagement.
Identifying ways to involve business units with the CSR platform.
Creating the right infrastructure to be able to implement your plan and measure your impact.
Identifying ways that your executives’ engagement with the CSR platform can build relationships with key stakeholders.

Custom solutions for your company’s needs

We’re here to help you develop, expand, or steward a plan that works for you.

Wachs Strategies has exceeded our expectations. The team has a deep understanding of what it takes to develop strategies and deliver. With their help we filled our donor pipeline, held successful fundraising events and crafted customized messaging and approaches for key donors that resulted in securing the revenue we needed to succeed. Josh’s team not only helped with the prospects we had, but also helped us design the donor infrastructure we need to keep being successful for the long-term.

Desmond Meade

Executive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition

What Makes Us Different

To maximize impact and realize mission-critical objectives, nonprofits, philanthropies and companies must evolve beyond transactional charity work and become dynamic change agents.

Wachs Strategies is a full-service, one-stop shop for what it takes to execute at the highest level. We make all our clients three promises that separate us from other firms:

A Nimble Team

We stand ready to respond quickly to real-time opportunities and challenges so that you stay on track with your goals.

100% of Our Attention

As a small firm, we work on a limited number of clients at a time. So you can expect to have our full attention. The team you speak to on day one is the same team you will have throughout.

Custom Solutions

We tailor our solutions to your needs. Our years of experience are a guide; but it’s your goals that determine the exact path we take.

Related case studies

Increasing impact for a corporate client

Our client, a major corporation with multiple entities and significant name recognition, had consolidated its grantmaking into one corporate foundation several years ago. The foundation was donating significant funds annually, but the organization’s leadership felt that there was a larger impact that could be made

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Realigning a CSR program to better suit today’s company

Wachs Strategies scoped out a several month project timeline that would allow for enough time for thorough review of current processes, research into other similarly structured entities programs, multiple interviews with internal and external stakeholders, and development of a potential path forward for the company and the foundation.