The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) is the only international forum of business leaders focused on increasing the level and quality of corporate philanthropy. Membership includes more than 180 global CEOs and chairpersons of companies that collectively account for more than 40% of reported corporate giving in the United States.
Membership is by invitation and is renewed annually. CECP provides member companies with peer-to-peer executive convenings, premier networking events for corporate giving industry professionals, cutting-edge research and thought leadership publications, a proprietary, on-demand benchmarking system of corporate philanthropy data, and exclusive media opportunities.
CECP encourages business leaders to use strategically leverage both cash and non-cash resources as a way to find innovative ways to fulfill unmet social needs, to lead the way towards better alignment of business and social strategies, and to serve as business ambassadors.
CECP is intently focused on three guiding principles: representing the CEO voice in corporate philanthropy, encouraging business discipline in the field, and setting the standards for effective philanthropy practice and measurement.
CECP’s mission is to draw together and empower senior executives of the world’s leading companies to achieve unprecedented progress on societal challenges while driving business performance. CECP offers high-powered connectivity and the platform to multiply investments in solving societal challenges. CECP uniquely enhances its members’ societal initiatives through strategy-related expertise, influential advocates, and awareness building, and by offering members essential resources including a proprietary benchmarking tool, networking programs, research, and opportunities for best-practice sharing.
Through more than a decade of work with CEOs, CECP has identified the Top Actions of an Engaged CEO. These actions are carried out each day by leading CEOs and are concrete steps senior executives can take to advance corporate societal engagement within their companies.
Philanthropy Initiatives
CECP member companies are leaders in the field of corporate community involvement. Spearheading innovative cross-sector partnerships, CECP member companies apply problem-solving mindsets to some of the most complex social problems both in their headquarter locations and around the world.
