{"id":79,"date":"2009-07-06T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-07-07T00:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T00:25:24","slug":"sustainability-as-a-strategy-not-a-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability as a Strategy, Not a Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-80\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/sustainability-as-a-strategy-not-a-program\/advocacy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80\" title=\"ADVOCACY\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ADVOCACY.jpg\" alt=\"ADVOCACY\" width=\"115\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>At the eighth annual Corporate Philanthropy Summit hosted by the <a title=\"Comm. Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corporatephilanthropy.org\" target=\"_blank\">CECP<\/a> this past June in New York City the bywords were collaboration, systemic change, advocacy and sustainability as reported online in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onphilanthropy.com\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=7843&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1841\">on Philanthropy<\/a>\u201d by Elisabeth Anderson, Shannon Bond &amp; Erica Pagan.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see sustainability on the short list along with one of its elements \u2013 systemic change- and two keywords or practices, collaboration and advocacy, but basically its strategic importance as the business and investment strategy is not understood as reflected in this meeting report.<\/p>\n<p>From the article it seems that what was meant by sustainability was making their contributions sustainable with no indication of the vital role they could be making in driving sustainability principles and practices at all levels from the personal to the global.<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be business as usual ever again and if the anticipated \u201cnew growth\u201d referenced in the article is not based on sustainable development principles and the Internet used effectively for collaboration and advocacy, our citizens are in big trouble as is our planet. It\u2019s not just the climate that\u2019s a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability needs to be a strategy not a program. It needs to be the strategy that drives all programs, all investments.\u00a0 Advocacy focused on supporting the cause of sustainability nets big changes precisely because it brings a focus to collaborative efforts, all of us need to be on the same page at the strategic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s good to see sustainability on the short list among philanthropy practitioners, but its strategic importance as the business and investment strategy is not understood as reflected in a report of the June Corporate Philanthropy Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,91,93,666,4],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-giving","tag-philanthropy","tag-strategic","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainability-economics-sustainable-development-earthsayers-supply-chain-ernst-and-young-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}