LBG Canada
TESTIMONIALS
"TransCanada has always understood community investment as an important vehicle for building trust and goodwill, but now more than ever the ability to demonstrate results is part of our strategic management. LBG Canada helps TransCanada examine the value of community investment and inform our future strategy and funding allocations."
Jamie Niessen, Manager, Community Investment, TransCanada Corporation
"What has been missing up to now is a consistent approach for companies to measure and report on the impact of their community investment programs. LBG Canada offers this approach."
Mel Wilson, Associate Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
“It is incredible to be part of the LBG Canada community of peers. You can talk to people that do what you do and have similar challenges. We learn a lot from each other.”
Paulette Minard, Community Affairs Manager, The Home Depot Canada
“Working with fellow participants of LBG Canada is a positive experience. Our opportunity for ongoing interaction helped solve the whole puzzle of community investment measurement.”
Karla Wingate, Manager, Sponsorship and Community Investment, ENMAX
"Every experience with LBG Canada and SiMPACT is better than the one before. The information is always valuable & timely, and I am so glad to be a part of this organization. LBG Canada provides incredible value to participants."
Erin Satterthwaite, Director, Community Investment, Vale Inco
“LBG Canada provides metrics and a clear methodology for valuing community investing that significantly enhances the credibility of the data that companies report, and we hope to see it become the standard approach in the world of corporate philanthropy"
Kevin Ranney, Global Director, Responsible Investment Services, Jantzi-Sustainalytics
"Our goal at ENMAX is to be as transparent as possible in reporting community investments and LBG Canada enables us to capture these values in a methodical and systematic way. We recognized our investments generated positive impact in past years, but with LBG Canada we now have an approach to quantify them in measurable terms."
Michelle Wong, Coordinator, Sponsorship & Community Investment, ENMAX
"We used our LBG Canada benchmarked data to help us fill out the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. This saved us time and effort."
Jamie Niessen, Manager, Community Investment, TransCanada Corporation
"Typically, when you finish an amazing project everyone feels good, applauds and then forgets. Applying the LBG Canada approach to a project, the feeling may go away, but the statistics stay and can be used in reports, presentations, etc."
Susan Byrom, Manager, Corporate Citizenship, Envision Financial
“Having a recognized standard helps us measure, and this helps us to share the CI story in CSR reports.”
Karla Wingate, Manager, Sponsorship and Community Investment, ENMAX
“Through our involvement in LBG Canada we are able to set clear expectations and goals when working with out community partners. We all know what's expected and make sure we are aligned. By defining simple priorities, the end result is more achievable.”
Paulette Minard, Community Affairs Manager, The Home Depot Canada.
“Participating in LBG Canada has assisted us in strengthening our community investment portfolio as the consistent approach and performance measurements allows us to evaluate if our investments are meeting our expectations and desired outcomes.”
Sonya Barker, Community Relations Coordinator, Interior Savings
“Benchmarking is the foundation of performance measurement, enabling Vale to assess whether our programs are in line with expectations. Through LBG Canada benchmarking, we are able to analyze the strengths of our portfolio and seek out opportunities for improvement. It gives us a clear view of what works and what doesn’t.”
Erin Satterthwaite, Director, Community Investment, Vale
The LBG Canada Data Collection Tool is the ONLY place where we can see all of what we give in particular categories across all regions. This is of incredible value as we look at our portfolio."
Amy Hanen, Senior Manager, Community Relations, TD Bank Financial Group
“The portfolio-wide assessment of Enbridge activities makes it easier to link community investment to priorities across business units such as government relations, community relations, human resources and marketing. These links have always been present intuitively, now we have the language and metrics for them to be expressed.”
Dan O’Grady, Manager, Community Partnerships & Investment, Enbridge Inc.
“The LBG Canada 7-Step approach was extremely helpful in understanding the impacts & benefits we were creating through our involvement in a local food drive.”
Joanne Manser, Advisor, Community Investment, Suncor Energy Inc.
"Working through the LBG Canada 7-Step Approach with our community partners has helped us both gain a better up-front understanding about the objectives of the program and what is important to measure."
Marlene Mulligan, Community Engagement Advisor, Chevron Canada
“The LBG Canada approach is assisting us to more effectively track and manage the multiple project inputs and significant employee volunteer effort that result in a successful KABOOM!”
Paulette Minard, Community Affairs Manager, The Home Depot Canada
“The LGB Canada approach to community investment has enabled Interior Savings to institute a more streamlined process to make a funding decision and evaluate the success of an investment.”
Sonya Barker, Community Relations Coordinator, Interior Savings
"LBG Canada has helped us to think in new ways. Simple things like writing down our motivations and filling out the benchmarking survey has helped us to considered things we'd never thought of before. Our involvement has been incredibly valuable."
Noreen Stuart, Community Investment Specialist, Servus Credit Union Ltd.
“The insights and evidence that result from LBG Canada participation enables us to make a clear business case about the importance of First Calgary Financial’s involvement in the community.”
Dani DeBoice, Manager, Corporate Citizenship, First Calgary Financial
“Year after year, our involvement in LBG Canada has helped our community investment team increase its knowledge and learn new skills, which allows us to continuously improve our ability to manage our community programs"
Dani DeBoice, Manager Corporate Citizenship, First Calgary Financial
“Our CI team came back from the LBG Canada Benchmarking Meeting full of ideas. We learned about what other companies are doing and through conversations with our peers have identified opportunities to improve our own processes.”
Lori Gammel, Manager, Suncor Energy Foundation and Community Investment
“Relationships have always underpinned our corporate responsibility philosophy, and now with LBG Canada, we have the opportunity to document the complexities of each relationship, and as a result, more clearly understand the impact of our corporate citizenship efforts on our business and on society.”
John Dundas, Sr. Vice President, Marketing and Communications, First Calgary Financial
"Working with the LBG Canada has opened up TransCanada’s dialogue with our community partners and improved our understanding of each other. With a clearer understanding of each other’s goals, we end up with a better result. This is great for both our community partners and for TransCanada.”
Sian Weaver, Community Investment Advisor, TransCanada Corporation
“SiMPACT Strategy Group is friendly, easy to work with and knows its LBG Canada material inside and out. Each team member has provided me with outstanding philanthropic council; overall, simply an incredible experience.”
