Advanced Advisory Services

CECP leads custom consultative projects for companies focused on driving measurable returns on corporate purpose

Strategic support for organizations ready to go deeper—both CECP members and non-members. 

When your organization is facing a complex challenge, major transition, or strategic opportunity, CECP’s Advanced Advisory Services provide customized support informed by proprietary data, peer insights, and decades of experience working with leading companies. Whether you’re refining your social impact strategy, evaluating your approach, strengthening measurement practices, or navigating organizational change, our team helps translate insights into action. 

CECP’s advisors combine benchmarking data, research, proven frameworks, and real-world experience to help organizations make informed decisions, align stakeholders, and accelerate progress. As an affiliate benefit, CECP members receive preferred pricing on Advanced Advisory engagements 

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  • Areas of Support?
  • Why CECP?

Areas of Support?

  • Strategy review and facilitation 
  • Expanded benchmarking and custom analysis 
  • Measurement and impact evaluation 
  • Scorecards and KPI development 
  • Communications and storytelling strategy 
  • Team structure and operating models 
  • Corporate responsibility and social impact strategy 
  • Executive and board-facing presentations 
  • Foundation and community investment strategy 
  • Stakeholder engagement and alignment 

Why CECP?

  • Proprietary data and benchmarking 
  • Access to insights from the world’s leading companies 
  • Practical, implementation-focused recommendations 
  • Deep expertise across corporate social impact 
  • Preferred pricing for CECP affiliates 

We also offers the option for companies to retain CECP for a set number of hours for ongoing strategic advisory support.

 

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Testimonials

We came to CECP knowing we wanted a more strategic approach to our philanthropy, but we didn't yet have the framework to get there.
CECP brought both the data and the discipline—starting with Giving in Numbers benchmarking so we could see exactly where we stood, then working alongside our team to build a real theory of change and ROI framework, not just a set of recommendations. What impressed us most was how practical it was: a measurement plan with clear owners and timelines, and scorecards we could bring to our executives and nonprofit partners. CECP didn't just help us think about corporate philanthropy differently, they gave us the tools to run it like the strategic function it should be. That partnership has changed how we tell our story, internally and externally."

Scott Gillenwater

Director, Philanthropy and Community Engagement, NRG