Each year LBG Canada holds its Annual Benchmarking Meeting to discuss community investment trends with LBG Canada companies. This year’s meeting is taking place April 18 & 19 in Calgary and representing over 40 Canadian companies of various industries from oil & gas to retail.
The Benchmarking Meeting allows the network of companies an opportunity to discover what community investment and employee volunteering & giving program management trends are, within their industry and across the LBG Canada group as a whole.
The data for the Annual Benchmarking Meeting is collected through surveys and an annual audit that SiMPACT Strategy Group (SiMPACT), the facilitator of LBG Canada, conducts with each LBG Canada company. SiMPACT analyzes different approaches to portfolio management, for example, decision-making thresholds, inclusion of communications resources for flagship projects and effectiveness of employee volunteering programs.
Along with the Annual Benchmarking Meeting, SiMPACT also uses the annual audit and the surveys to create a customized Insights & Opportunities report for each LBG Canada company. The report offers in-depth insights into each LBG Canada company’s community investment portfolio highlighting both strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Ultimately, the results gleaned from the Annual Benchmarking Meeting and the customized Insights & Opportunities report ensure community investment is understood as a valuable and strategic activity by all LBG Canada companies – and sets the highest standard for management, performance measurement and reporting in Canada.
