Will CEOs Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are?

IT WAS QUITE A YEAR IN THE WORLD OF corporate activism.

In 2020, businesses and their leaders stood up like never before. CEOs and their boards halted campaign contributions to politicians who spread lies about a stolen presidential election, contributed millions to food banks to help Americans who lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and spent millions more to support social justice programs after the civil unrest that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

And, they took a long look in the mirror.

But all that work will produce few results if business leaders don’t take the next step and make good on the promises and pledges from the past year. “It’s critical that