A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

Excerpt from sgENGAGE

The YourCause from Blackbaud team is excited to be releasing a whitepaper on ESG. The whitepaper will include the following:

• History of ESG

• Components of ESG programming

• An overview of measurement and management

• Perspectives from CSR leaders

• Resources to learn more and stay up to date with trends and more!

Ahead of the full release, we wanted to give a preview and share an excerpt focused on the history of ESG as a pillar of CSR. Throughout the timeline, you will find links to explore each event further. The following timeline is not a completely comprehensive representation of all events that have shaped ESG (that would be a lot of pages!) but is a series of events that we found to intersect well with our understanding of corporate social responsibility.

Happy reading!

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As with the overarching concept of corporate social responsibility, the practice of ESG has an overlapping history that can be traced back to several key events. Rather than a single moment in time, ESG was born out of actions in the business community over several decades that culminated into our modern understanding of ESG today. The timeline includes links to articles about significant events over the last century that helped form our current context:

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