Corporate Social Responsibility

CANYON SNOW WILL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY strategy THat meets the growing expectations of your stakeholders and supports your business goals.

Canyon Snow’s clients operate in cost-constrained environments where customers, investors, activists, and legislators increasingly demand compliance with diverse standards of conduct and disclosure of activities.  We have well-developed expertise in crafting solutions to these challenges and we manage our clients' sustainable CSR program implementations using proven, cost-effective strategies and frameworks.  

 

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CSR programs

We design and implement CSR strategies that meet the growing and evolving expectations of our clients’ stakeholders:

  • We build internal programs with cross-functional collaboration and strong executive and functional support

  • We help set strategic goals for internal and external communication

  • We address emerging CSR topics and translate them into pragmatic program growth

Development and publication of annual corporate social responsibility reportS

We also support clients in the development and publication of their annual CSR reports:

  • We conduct interviews with stakeholders within the company

  • We align disclosures to industry frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative

  • We write, design, and produce reports for web and hard-copy publication

Materiality assessmentS

We support clients in completing periodic materiality assessments to identify priority CSR topics and set the foundation of a successful program:

  • We conduct an expertly tailored, industry-aligned assessment

  • We advise on CSR topics specific to the client’s industry and business

  • We facilitate stakeholder engagement through interviews and surveys

conflict minerals compliance and communications

Monitoring the responsible sourcing of conflict minerals and guarding against human trafficking are critical aspects of supply chain due diligence. We work with our clients to:

  • Develop a responsible sourcing policy

  • Submit industry-aligned annual filings to the SEC and other relevant regulatory authorities

  • Communicate supply chain due diligence efforts externally

engagment with esg analysts AND BENCHMARKING ORGANIZATIONS

Our clients are often required to engage with ESG analysts and benchmarking organizations which measure a company’s efforts and disclosures.  These have become an increasingly prominent tool for customers and investors to assess a company’s performance in the CSR space. To meet those needs while also guarding against survey fatigue, Canyon Snow will:

  • Identify which rankings are most critical to our clients’ stakeholders

  • Engage with priority organizations to consult on methodology, fact-check their assessments, and demystify ambiguous scoring

  • Provide recommendations to improve scores and implement programmatic improvements

Managing RBA membership and code of conduct implementation

Canyon Snow principals played a key role in the Responsible Business Alliance or RBA (formerly EICC) development process: negotiating language, managing stakeholders, and building consensus to protect the interests of the electronics hardware industry. We work with our clients to be successful RBA members by:

  • Strategically aligning internal stakeholders’ needs with RBA requirements

  • Managing member onboarding and ongoing membership compliance

  • Implementing a robust supplier risk assessment process

CSR marketing materials

We support clients in disclosing critical elements of their CSR programs to external and internal stakeholders. We collaborate with them to: · 

  • Draft and strengthen policies, position statements, and codes of conduct ·    

  • Enhance corporate messaging tie together the existing elements of a program into a cohesive package

External CSR Disclosure

The team at Canyon Snow also works with clients to respond to and prepare external CSR disclosures with organizations such as CDP and EcoVadis. We collaborate with companies to:

  • Facilitate interviews with internal stakeholders

  • Draft robust responses to external questionnaires, drawing on industry best practices

  • Conduct gap assessments of disclosure to recommend programmatic improvements

 

These initiatives and focus areas will have varying degrees of importance and value for each client, depending on their industry, customer/stakeholder priorities, and current level of implementation of CSR principles.  Canyon Snow has a broad perspective across companies and industries to help our clients direct their attention to those areas of greatest opportunity and return on investment.