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Embedding Social Impact into Everyday Business

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In 2024, leaders from various sectors collaborated to explore how to integrate social impact into everyday business practices, identifying key interactions like shopping and commuting as opportunities for responsibility. This effort resulted in a White Paper with recommendations and a launch event, featuring industry leaders discussing responsible business practices.

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White paper: Embedding Social Impact into Everyday Business. A Practical Guide
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Social Impact Alliance for Central & Eastern Europe

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Social Impact Alliance for Central & Eastern Europe

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Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

Organisation Type

Academic/Research and VET Institutions

Company with 250 or more employees

Consumer / tourist organisation

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

EU institutions

Financial Institutions and Investors

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

Media/Travel Journalist Organisations

National authorities

Networks and Federations / Confederations

NGOs / Non-profits

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

  • Thematic area

    • Financing the ecosystem

    • Partnerships

    • Skills

    • Transformative Digital Transition

  • Interlinkages with other sectors

    • Proximity and social economy

    • Agri-food

    • Construction

    • Cultural and creative industries

    • Digital

    • Electronics

    • Energy intensive industries

    • Energy-renewables

    • Health

    • Mobility, transport, automotive

    • Retail

    • Textile

    • Tourism

    • Aerospace and defence

  • Action areas and keywords

    • Access to Finance

    • Access to technology

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • Buy social

    • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

    • Education

    • Industrial relation and social dialogue

    • Innovation

    • Innovation as enabler for green transition and business development in the social economy

    • Internationalisation

    • Local Markets

    • New business models

    • New business models – the platform economy

    • Public and private tech partnerships and support

    • Reinforcing Business to Business collaboration for greener and circular value chains

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Social Finance

    • Sustainable Finance

    • Tech for Good

  • Ecosystem focus

    • Proximity economy

    • Social economy

  • Scope of activity

    • International

    • Local/neighbourhood

    • National

    • Regional

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In 2024, we brought together a group of leaders from business, government, nonprofits, philanthropy and academia to collectively search for solutions on how social impact can be mainstreamed into everyday business. A powerful strategy emerged: to leverage major points of interaction with society that companies naturally have through products, services, and infrastructure. We all use phones. We shop. We pay for goods. We use computers for work and school. We commute. We use media.

Could these everyday moments be transformed into opportunities to inspire greater responsibility?

We asked PwC Central and Eastern Europe to help us answer key questions: What is the role of business in advancing social impact? Is there a business case? How can companies catalyse change? The findings, combined with expert insights from PwC industry leaders, have been compiled into a White Paper.

We encourage you to download it to explore recommendations. To make it easier to navigate, we organised them by:

  • industries (finance, retail, etc.)
  • and departments (marketing, procurement, IT, etc.).

We also encourage you to watch a 60-minute launch event recording (February 17, 2025) to hear from industry leaders about the transformative power of responsible business practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epq7CSdQ8jg. 

  • Agnieszka Gajewska, Partner, Global Government & Public Services Leader and CEE Clients & Markets Leader, PwC
  • Katerina Hoskova, Lead, Social Innovation (Private Sector), World Economic Forum
  • Maia Mazurkiewicz, President, PZU Foundation
  • Wiktor Schmidt, Co-founder of Netguru, Chairman of Endeavor Poland, YPOer
  • Krzysztof Sobala, Vice President, Mastercard Data & Services
  • Marcin Wiśniewski, Poland Country Officer, IFC - International Finance Corporation / The World Bank Group
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