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.

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

Stakeholder Engagement and Executive Leadership

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.

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.