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The CauseSmart team believes that companies should adopt the same due diligence for their community impact investments as they do for their investments for general operations. Our team provides cause-related consulting services to for-profit businesses seeking to augment their community impact with more efficient and effective impact investments. Currently we see a shift happening in the consumer and employee bases. It used to be that you could offer a quality product or service to create a strong business based off that product or service. Then we shifted into a time when people expected companies to support philanthropies or community events and that allowed for them to build an even stronger business. Today we are experience a new shift. Consumers and employees do not just want to see a business throwing money at problems and nothing coming of it. Today's generations want companies to focus on specific problems to help solve them. You have seen companies making this shift from large corporations starting different philanthropy to startups engraining a social problem in their company. Many businesses still think that financial giving is enough but the shift is occurring.