Belgium
Business & Society Belgium
Profile
Business & Society Belgium promotes and supports every facet of corporate social responsibility, both internal and external. It provides significant exposure to its members, creates new partnership opportunities, and encourages dialogue with all relevant actors. It has 45 members of which four are employer's federations. Business & Society is a network and an inspiration to corporations and associations striving to integrate social responsibility in their management and activities.
Mission
- We are a growing action and business-driven network, which promotes and integrates CSR into business, to contribute to sustainable development and human progress.
- We want to be a driver for change by working with members, partners and social actors on specific CSR themes.
- We want to be a reference centre providing high quality information to our members.We want to be a sounding board and a platform for exchange of experiences.
Activities
- A proactive approach: Business & Society Belgium endeavours to continuously push back the frontiers of CSR by drawing attention to a variety of issues and laying the foundations of new cooperation opportunities.
- Exchange sessions with members companies on several CSR issues: Current topics include employee involvement, integration of sustainable development strategy, stakeholder engagement, mainstreaming and internal communication on CSR.
- Exchange meetings with stakeholders: Current stakeholders include labour unions, consumers associations, NGO's, public authorities, media.
- Workshops: In depth exchange and research on specific CSR issues among which are CSR reporting, sustainable supply chain management, aging workforce. Most of these workshops are lead in close connexion to CSR Europe Laboratories. Among the deliverables of these researches: practical guides, seminars, pilot-projects on the field.
- CSR (self-) assessment: On becoming a member, we propose an assisted assessment covering all departments and CSR issues. This assessment leads to a personalised report and a benchmark with the rest of the members. The results can be updated on a regular basis through a self-assessment.
- CSR Conference: Concentrate of keynote speakers, practical workshops, thematic ‘face-to-face' meetings and networking moments for more than 300 business managers and a few stakeholders. A major Belgian CSR event, every two years.
- Personalised CSR support: A professional and hands-on supervision of your projects.
- Look on Europe: Membership of CSR Europe and relations with its partners in 20 European countries, allow us to play a key role in European CSR politics.
- Communication: Through News, Business & Society Belgium Magazine, www.businessandsociety.be and topic-related publications we keep you informed on our network and Belgian CSR news.
- CSR Feedback Brainstorming/micro-conferences, Q&As: You submit your CSR Charter, (or any similar document like a CSR or sustainable development report), to a panel of members and/or an expert (your choice). A collective brainstorming and exchange session allows you to share your concerns.
- Your CSR strategy from A to Z: On a yearly basis, we propose various topical issues to analyse and discuss in-depth.
- Workshops and training on CSR, meetings, publications: Current topics include corporate-NGO communication, corporate diversity policies, CSR and Education.
Members
45 members (view members)
Chairperson
Xavier Sinéchal, CEO of Axima Services and Fabricom, Executive Vice-President of Suez Energy Services
Contact
Géry de Pierpont, Director
e-mail: info@businessandsociety.be
Phone: +32 2 515 09 78
Fax: +32 2 515 09 76
Address: Stuiversstraat 8 Rue des Sols, Brussels, Belgium
