We help organizations proudly communicate the value of their investment in community and society.

"We gave $10 million. Why doesn't anyone care?"
Citing the dollar figure and the headcount doesn't move anyone. It invites "you should have given more," not belief. What actually lands is the thinking behind the decision: who you chose to fund, why, and what they're doing with it.

We design the system behind your reporting: how you ask community partners what they need, how you apply decision criteria to their answers, and how what you learn back from them becomes the evidence you use to tell the story. Most teams run these pieces separately. We connect them end to end.

"What's the ROI?"
It's the question every community investment team gets asked. Commercial, social, and philanthropic investments all get judged by different standards.

We use Social Return on Investment methodology to represent social and environmental value in the same terms as financial return, so the significance of the work is unmistakable to the people who need to fund it.

"Nobody can tell me how this number was calculated."
Once you're managing investment or outcomes across dozens of programs or partners, spreadsheets stop working, and most reporting software turns into a black box you can't see inside. 

We set up dashboard systems, built on tools like Salesforce, that let everyone feeding into them see exactly how the numbers come together and how the value adds up as results come in.

"The cheapest bid keeps winning, even when it's not the best value."
Procurement processes built around price alone miss the social and environmental return sitting next to the financial one. Without a way to put a number on it, "best value" defaults to "lowest cost," every time.

We bring well-being valuation tools from the UK into how Canadian governments define "best value," so a decision can account for the social and environmental return alongside the financial one.

"Is that actually what we invested?"
When a CFO or a board member starts asking where your numbers come from, a best guess isn't good enough. Without clear definitions, community investment budgets get chipped away by every department that wants to borrow the label for something else entirely.

As founder and lead auditor of LBG Canada, we offer third-party verification of what your company reports as community investment, so the numbers you publish are ones you can stand behind with confidence.

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