Course description
GRI Standards Certified Training Course
Are you creating your first sustainability report and don’t know where to begin? Are you currently reporting but aren’t sure your report is up to par? As a certified Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) training partner, the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship can provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the GRI Reporting Standards and reporting process focused on social, environmental, economic, and governance dimensions of business.
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Who should attend?
Professionals involved with any facet of the reporting process; individuals who provide quantitative and/or qualitative data, engage with stakeholders, or communicate the company’s economic, social, or environmental impacts; and professionals interested in learning to evaluate reports of their supply chain partners or customers to maximize alignment of disclosures.
Possesses a familiarity with employer’s business and citizenship strategy, and an understanding of the company’s existing reporting processes and procedures.
Training content
- The fundamentals of the five-part GRI reporting process: prepare, connect, define, monitor, and report.
- How to identify the activities and decisions to be made during the reporting process to help your company focus on relevant issues.
- What nonfinancial materiality is and why it matters for reporting.
- The difference between an aspect and an indicator and how best to focus your report to meet the needs of your audiences.
- How to use GRI principles to create a strategic, focused, credible, and user-friendly report.
Costs
- Member: $1,350.00
- Non-Member: $1,550.00
Certification / Credits
As the Center is certified training partner for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a Certificate of Attendance will be awarded from GRI. Additionally, participants will earn 5 ertificate units toward either a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice or a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Reporting, 16 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. This is an elective course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice and a required course for a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Reporting.
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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
At the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, we help companies advance and elevate their corporate citizenship to deliver both business and social value, no matter where they are in their corporate citizenship journey. As the leading corporate citizenship membership...