Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.
The top 9 are (in no particular order): AT&T, Gap Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Morgan Stanley, UnitedHealth Group, GE, Sigma-Aldrich and Hewlett-Packard.
So how did they do it? According to the report, there are five habits that helped them succeed in catalyzing community impact: 5 Habits of Companies that Rock at Giving Back | socialearth.org