LSG Builds Strong Families and Strong Lives with the Home for Little Wanderers
America’s future rests with its children, but for millions of kids, their own futures may seem bleak. 13 million children in the United States suffer from food insecurity, 1.7 million have spent at least one night of homelessness, and millions more are victims of...
Finding Your CSR Niche
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an incredible asset for any business: It can help attract new talent, boost employee engagement, build a positive brand, and so on. But despite its many advantages, deciding on what causes to support and what initiatives to...
How CSR Helps Build Employee Engagement
The relationship between business and philanthropy is often understood as a binary. Perhaps businesses can be supportive of noble causes, conventional wisdom says, but what’s good for the corporate goose can’t possibly be good for the charitable gander. Today,...
How LSG & SARRC Are Inspiring Hope
Throughout the month of April, buildings are lit up blue in order to raise awareness for the struggles faced by those on the autism spectrum. Altogether, that accounts for thirty days out of three hundred and sixty-five which are dedicated to promoting a cause that,...
Lincoln Strategy Reaches Into Classrooms with DonorsChoose.org
In addition to the compassion and care that America’s teachers shower on their students, they also spend tremendous sums of money out of their own pockets on important supplies for their classrooms. In 2015, the average teacher spent about $500, while as many as...
How Corporate Foundations are Transforming Philanthropy
Corporate philanthropy takes many forms. There are matching gift programs, generous grants and scholarships, paid time off for employees who choose to pursue volunteer opportunities, and more. In recent years, however, a new trend has emerged alongside these...
How Corporate Giving Can Get Better Without Giving More
In different walks of life, the debate continues eternally as to which is more important: quality or quantity. We’ve outlined in recent blog posts the fact that the quantity of philanthropy–both in a corporate and individual sense–is increasing over time. People are...
Lincoln Participates in Principal for a Day
About a decade ago, prior to Dr. Stephanie DeMar’s arrival as principal at Loma Linda Elementary school, the educational institute was rife with problems. Students were skipping school regularly as truancy rates spiked. When students did come to school, threats and...
Transparency and Corporate Social Responsibility
A December, 2014 article on CFO.com entitled “Corporate Transparency: The Openess Revolution,” delved into and dissected the trend for businesses and large organizations to begin moving towards a more open, honest, and transparent business model. Taking it one...
CSR Today: Are We Getting More Socially Responsible?
If you’ve been following Lincoln Strategy Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility blog here, you probably know a few things about CSR by now. You probably know that better, more efficient and more involved socially responsible initiatives taken on by an organization...