Posted: April 25th, 2025

The Citizens Award Gala – CSR Governance

Competency

• Assess corporate social responsibility for organizational success.
• Analyze the impact of the organization’s community involvement and sociological perspectives on company branding.
• Assess ethics in global, international, and multicultural environments.
• Evaluate the impact of politics and regulatory compliance on corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
• Evaluate how sustainability strategies support an organization’s competitive advantage.
• Critique corporate social responsibility initiatives for an organization’s corporate citizenship.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

You work for Patagonia as VP of Operations and your company has been nominated for the Citizens Award from the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Each nominee is to present its company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability initiatives at the Citizens Award Gala in Washington D.C. You will develop a Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability plan on behalf of your organization that will showcase your company as the obvious choice to win the award.

Instructions

Create a 17-23 slide PowerPoint slide presentation using APA format (Title slide, Reference slide(s), citations) you will present at the Gala. Please be sure to include your script within the speaker notes section of the PowerPoint. All slides must include speaker notes. Bullet format or short sentences should be used on slides, not paragraphs. The bulk of the information for each slide must be in the speaker notes. You must submit your presentation in a PowerPoint file. If you submit a PDF file, the assessment faculty cannot see the speaker notes.

Your PowerPoint slide deck must include the following slides:

• Title slide incorporating speaker notes to explain the purpose (1 slide).
• Explain how your CSR plan will positively impact the triple bottom line while satisfying your shareholders, as well as internal and external stakeholders, including speaker notes. (2-3 slides)
• Include how you will mitigate the risk of negative internal and external perceptions of stakeholders or the public using a minimum of four (4) examples and including speaker notes. 
• Describe how your community involvement and commitment to diversity, inclusion, equality, and equity have a positive impact on the company’s brand using a minimum of three (3) examples and including speaker notes. (2-3 slides)
• Discuss how your plan makes a global contribution to international and multicultural populations, including speaker notes. (3-4 slides)
• Predict how your plan will make a positive contribution to local, state, or governmental laws and regulations, including speaker notes. (3-4 slides)
• Include how you will measure financial and non-financial performance, including speaker notes.
• Illustrate how this plan will be implemented, why and how it will be sustainable, along with why you feel this CSR initiative is a core competency of your organization while incorporating speaker notes. (3-4 slides).
• Show how your organization contributes to all four types of corporate social responsibility to demonstrate positive corporate citizenship, including speaker notes. (3-4 slides)
• Provide attribution using credible scholarly sources for each criterion in the professional presentation, including writing standards such as writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

A – 4 – Mastery

Included visually appealing and professional title slide that introduces the project and clearly explains the purpose while incorporating speaker notes.

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary explanation of how the CSR plan will positively impact the triple bottom line while satisfying your shareholders, as well as internal and external stakeholders. (2-3 slides) Included thorough detail on how to mitigate the risk of negative internal and external perceptions of stakeholders or the public while incorporating speaker notes.

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary description of how community involvement and commitment to diversity, inclusion, equality, and equity have a positive impact on the company’s brand. Included a minimum of four (4) examples and incorporated speaker notes. (2-3 slides)

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary discussion of how the plan makes a global contribution to international and multicultural populations. Included a minimum of three (3)examples and incorporated speaker notes. (3-4 slides)

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary prediction of how the plan will make a positive contribution to local, state, or governmental laws and regulations. (3-4 slides) Included thorough detail on how to measure financial and non-financial performance and included speaker notes.

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary illustration of how this plan will be implemented, why and how it will be sustainable, along with why this CSR initiative is a core competency of the organization. Speaker notes were incorporated. (3-4 slides).

A – 4 – Mastery

Comprehensive exemplary explanation of how the organization contributes to all four types of corporate social responsibility to demonstrate positive corporate citizenship by incorporating speaker notes. (3-4 slides)

A – 4 – Mastery

Demonstrates exemplary attribution using credible scholarly sources for each criterion in the professional presentation including writing standards such as writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.