2010 SOCIAL AUDIT
Social audit: Executive Summary Founded in 1997, The Redwoods Group is a privately held, social enterprise using insurance and risk management solutions to serve YMCAs, Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and nonprofit residential camps. The Redwoods Group annually commissions an examination and evaluation of its social performance by an external party. This report, a “Social Audit,” serves as a means for the company, its leadership and its stakeholders to assess the organization’s social impact. The Social Audit serves to publicly report on the company’s mission-related performance, identify successes in the calendar year 2010, compare progress versus previous years and make recommendations to enhance impact in 2011. Redwoods annually hires an outside consultant to conduct our Social Audit. Here’s the unedited report.
As in last year’s Social Audit, Redwoods’ 2010 B Impact Report provides a foundation of standardized, mission-related performance measurements for private companies. This Social Audit report also offers frameworks to evaluate and position The Redwoods Group’s mission-related progress amid other social enterprises. Additionally, progress is again measured against recommendations presented by third-party evaluators in the Social Audits of 2007, 2008 and 2009. In a persistent soft market, performance
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