The Social Purpose Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to help businesses define, embed and advance their social purpose. It provides practical guidance, frameworks, exercises and business examples to help companies move from articulating their purpose to putting it into practice across their organizations.
Designed for businesses of all sizes and sectors, the Social Purpose Toolkit supports executives, managers, employees and boards in integrating social purpose into business strategy, governance, operations, culture, products and services, and stakeholder relationships.
The Toolkit includes a seven-step approach to getting started and practical guidance for embedding social purpose across seven business functions. It offers tools to help companies:
- Assess their current social purpose practices and identify priorities.
- Integrate social purpose into business planning and decision-making.
- Align products, services and business relationships with purpose.
- Engage employees and stakeholders in advancing purpose.
- Measure progress and strengthen accountability.
- Collaborate with others to address societal challenges.
The Social Purpose Toolkit features real-world business examples demonstrating how companies are translating social purpose into action. It also provides guidance on purpose communication, disclosure, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Whether a business is beginning its social purpose journey or seeking to deepen its existing practices, the Social Purpose Toolkit offers a practical roadmap for integrating purpose into the core of the business.
The Social Purpose Toolkit is designed to help companies strengthen their businesses while contributing to solutions to the social and environmental challenges facing society.
