—CANADA’S COMMUNITY INVESTMENT STANDARD
Your Community Investment is significant. Make sure it stands up to scrutiny.
LBG Canada provides a nationally recognized standard, and independent verification, so your numbers are credible, board-ready, and prepared for external reporting.
$8 Billion+
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT DOLLARS AUDITED & VERIFIED
29 Million+
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEER HOURS AUDITED & VERIFIED
—THE CHALLENGE
The value of community investment is often misunderstood.
Internal stakeholders, investors, regulators, and the public are placing greater scrutiny on social impact claims. Adopting and participating in the LBG Canada Standard helps you meet rising expectations with confidence, while supporting your organization’s commitment to reporting transparency and community impact.
Know what actually counts.
The LBG Canada Standard gives your organization a clear, consistent definition for community investment. With that clarity, you can focus resources on what drives meaningful impact and do more of what truly counts.
Stand behind your numbers.
LBG Canada provides recognized third-party verification of your community investment activity. Your results aren’t just self-reported, they’re validated with rigour that holds up to internal and external scrutiny.
Keep pace with rising expectations.
You join an active participant network of public and private organizations that each contribute to the evolution of the Standard, allowing you to keep pace with the changing landscape in corporate community and social investment.
See how the LBG Canada Standard creates value for your role.
Without a clear standard, even well-intentioned organizations leave value on the table — and open themselves to the wrong kind of scrutiny.
Executives
Gain confidence in your community investment reporting, reduce organizational risk, and strengthen public trust.
Managers
Support your community investment budgets, drive internal alignment, and make faster decisions with data you can trust.
Practitioners
Highlight the value of your work, evaluate return on investment, and communicate clear community investment impact stories.
Frequently Asked Questions
Book a conversation with our team to learn more about how the LBG Canada Standard could work for your community investment program.
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We work with private and public organizations from all sectors. Many organizations currently in our participant network are in the financial services, telecommunications, energy sectors and retail.
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Organizations with community investment budgets of $1M+ will find the most value in the LBG Canada Standard. Budgets of this size usually mean a more complex program, involving different kinds of contributions with activity from across the business.
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The LBG Canada Standard is built to work with how you already work. For the annual audit, we will accept raw data in nearly any form and guide the process from start to finish.
As you apply the Standard to your organization, we are happy to assist with tools, guidance, and case law whenever needed.
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Our team reviews your community investment data against the LBG Canada standard - assessing eligibility, classification, and total value. You receive a verification letter and trust mark on completion.
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The first step is to book a conversation with us. We’ll walk you through the standard and ask you questions about your community investment program to evaluate with you whether the LBG Canada Standard is a good fit for your organization.