Take a Course
BCCCC offers online courses in a variety of CSR and ESG-related topics. All courses are taught by CSR experts and informed by over 40 years of constantly updated research, trends, and insights. Access leading-edge corporate citizenship knowledge and tools from the comfort of your office. Enroll in one of these self-paced, fully online CSR courses today.
Browse the online course menu below, and let us know if you have any questions. Our Executive Education advisor is happy to walk you through the different modules each course covers, and help you determine how different tools and activities within a course might apply to your work. Tuition-wise, keep in mind, we are happy to help you bundle one or more courses with a BCCCC membership or member renewal, in order to help you stretch your budget farther. See a course that you wish your entire team could take? We can arrange for that, too. Contact ccc@bc.edu.
Fundamental Courses
Corporate Citizenship 101: ESG Fundamentals
This introductory course covers the primary concepts, ideas, and language of corporate citizenship, offering practical models and useful tools.
Corporate Citizenship Communications
This course will help you increase program awareness, develop campaigns that engage stakeholders, and craft overall more persuasive, compelling messages.
Corporate Citizenship Strategy
This course will help you employ effective business strategy models to align your CSR efforts with company goals and gain the support of senior leaders.
Impact Measurement for Corporate Citizenship
You're creating change in your business and the community, but can you quantify the value of it? This interactive course will help you build an effective measurement program to do just that.
Community Involvement Courses
Advanced Impact Measurement
This course outlines how to measure the outcomes and impacts of CSR efforts, exploring different methods to capture the value created for both company and community.
Brand and Reputation: Build Trust with Stakeholders
This course explores how corporate citizenship professionals can create more business and social value by building the networks, resilience, and results that lead to a better brand.
Preparing Teams for Nonprofit Board Service
This program provides you with the training to support a robust nonprofit board service program as part of your overall corporate citizenship commitment.
Corporate Citizenship Partnership Management
The most effective partnerships between corporations and NPOs bring together complementary skills and resources that enable partners to achieve together goals that neither could accomplish alone.
Employee Engagement Courses
Opportunity, Inclusion & Workforce Engagement
This course explains how businesses with a strong inclusion culture demonstrate better financial performance, higher rates of recruitment and retention, and more robust innovation.
Deepening Employee Engagement
This course explores strategies and leading practices for designing CSR programs that improve employee engagement.
Corporate Giving: Maximizing Effectiveness
This course will show you how to select and evaluate partners, measure impact, and better determine where your philanthropic investments can have the most positive impact.
Fundamentals of Employee Volunteer Programs
This course will give you the tools to create or continuously improve volunteer programs that are highly recognizable, valued programs that help build better partnerships, deepen engagement among employees, and contribute to the company’s visibility and reputation.
ESG Reporting Courses
Fundamentals of Sustainability Reporting
This course dives into the benefits of reporting, such as highlighting corporate culture, improving performance along the environmental, social, or governance (ESG) dimensions of business informing strategy, establishing accountability, providing transparency, or engaging employees.
Integrated Reporting: Connecting ESG Metrics with Overall Performance
This course will teach you how to leverage an integrated report as a management tool that will help guide your company toward greater collaboration and better decision-making.
CDP Reporting: Measuring Environmental Impact
This course enhances your reporting capability, highlights alignment with other frameworks such as the Global Reporting Index (GRI) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), and familiarizes participants with the background, methodology, and questionnaire.
Reporting with the GRI Standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the most commonly used reporting framework, and is used not only to report progress on ESG investments, but also to improve internal management and governance practices around sustainability.
Reporting with the ISSB
Aligning with ISSB standards helps companies identify inefficiencies, cut costs, and manage sustainability-related risks more effectively.
CSRD Aligned Reporting
The CSRD emphasizes a "double materiality" approach, requiring companies to report on how their business is impacted by sustainability risks and opportunities, as well as how their own activities impact society and the environment. Take this course to help your company get prepared.
Environmental Sustainability Courses
Fundamentals of Environmental Sustainability
Today’s businesses can positively differentiate themselves by developing commitments that make good business and environmental sense. This course provides an overview of concepts, tools, and resources that can get you started.
Corporate Citizenship In Your Supply Chain
Whether you are concerned with increasing participation in volunteer programs, reporting, or improving environmental impacts, this program can help you connect with essential partners—both inside the company and beyond. Learn how to make the most of your entire corporate citizenship value chain.
Stakeholder and Material Issues Management
This course will provide tools to prioritize stakeholder relationships, identify material issues, and engage stakeholders to collect valuable feedback that can help you to maximize business and social value.