Future 500 Stakeholder Engagement Survey '10

 

Thank you for participating in Future 500's inaugural Stakeholder Engagement Survey! In appreciation, we will PLANT A TREE in the farming community of Moren, HAITI through a partnership with Plant with Purpose for each completed survey.

With this survey, we wish to identify perceptions of corporate practices in STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT - how companies engage stakeholders in dialogue to advance the company’s economic, social, and environmental PERFORMANCE.

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STAKEHOLDERS are those who have a stake in or are affected by a company’s actions, such as Non-Governmental or Non-Profit Organizations (NGO’s/NPOs), investors, analysts, suppliers, employees, associations, academics, media, consumers, governmental bodies and officials, interest groups, and others.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT includes the following types of company activities related to environmental and social issues:

- Direct dialogue with stakeholders
- Transparency and accessibility of information for analysis and research
- Public corporate communications and reporting
- Lobbying
- Advocacy
- Participation in associations and issue related coalitions or working groups
- Any other corporate activities that create dialogue between the company and its stakeholders on environmental and social issues.

COMPANIES: For this inaugural survey, we selected THREE PRIORITY INDUSTRIES and the TOP COMPANIES in those industries based on the 2009 Fortune 500 list.

Best,

Bill Shireman & Erik Wohlgemuth
President & CEO, VP of Operations

Future 500 is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to aligning the interests of corporations and stakeholders to advance solutions to the world's most critical sustainability challenges. In our work, we find that cross-sector stakeholder engagement between corporations, NGOs, and government is invaluable to foster the collaborative dialogue that transcends ideology and focuses all stakeholders on identifying the systemic roots of problems and, in turn, leading to more positive solutions.

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