Press Releases

Corporate social impact teams are managing increasingly complex portfolios without adding staff, according to new findings from Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP)’s Giving in Numbers®: 2026 Edition, the unrivaled leader in benchmarking of corporate social investments, conducted in partnership with companies.   Read more here.

Corporate foundations are taking on a bigger role in how companies achieve their social impact strategy, according to new findings from Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP)’s Giving in Numbers®: 2026 Edition, the longest-running benchmarking study of corporate social investments, in partnership with companies.   Read more here.

Employee participation in corporate volunteering and giving programs is holding steady at roughly a quarter of the workforce, even as companies expand the number of ways employees can get involved, according to Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose®(CECP)’s Giving in Numbers® survey.   Read more here.

New data from Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose®(CECP)’s Giving in Numbers® survey shows a corporate giving landscape that’s more divided than it first appears. While median Total Community Investments increased from $21.9M in 2024 to $23.5M in 2025 in a matched set of companies, more than half of companies cut back on giving in 2025. […]

A comprehensive new Issue Brief by CECP supported by YourCause® from Blackbaud®, reveals that despite recurring economic disruptions, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the United States has demonstrated remarkable long-term resilience, serving as an essential stabilizing force within democratic capitalism. Read more here.

This week, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose© (CECP) is bringing together 250 senior social impact, corporate responsibility, and sustainability leaders from the world’s leading global companies for the 23rd annual CECP Summit: Purpose Reignited.   Read more here.

A new study released today by Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose© (CECP) demonstrates that companies with deeply integrated corporate purpose across their core business systems achieve significantly better business outcomes in comparison to those that treat purpose as a PR exercise. Read more here.

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) today released a new report, Corporate Foundations: Optimizing for Returns, providing the first comprehensive data-driven framework for understanding how corporate foundations deliver value to both society and the business. Read more here.

Discussing responsible leadership in an era of shared challenges, leading CEOs who are a part of a coalition of more than 200 of the world’s largest companies collectively representing $8.3 trillion in annual revenue and $33 billion in total community investment attended Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose’s© (CECP) Board of Boards this week in New York, […]

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose®’s (CECP) announced the opening of its Giving in Numbers™ 2026 survey, the premier industry benchmark providing standard-setting criteria in a go-to guide that has defined corporate social investment for over two decades. Now in its 25th year, Giving in Numbers represents the largest dataset on corporate philanthropy and community engagement, […]

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) announced today that three distinguished executives will join the organization’s Board of Directors: Steve Beard, Chairman and CEO of Covista, Steven H. Collis, former Executive Chair of Cencora, Inc., and Ann Fairchild, interim President and CEO of Siemens USA. Read more here.

Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose® (CECP) today announced that 20 of the world’s leading companies joined its network throughout 2025, representing diverse industries united by a shared commitment: leveraging the power of business as a force for positive social impact. Read more here.