2026 YourCause Canadian CSR Industry Spotlight

What Matters Most to Canadian Employees?

Insights from the 1st Annual Canadian CSR Spotlight with benchmarking data from 118 companies

We’ve released this industry spotlight to help CSR leaders understand the current employee engagement and corporate social responsibility trends that are shaping impact within the Canadian workforce.

How this report comes to life:

We use data from companies using CSRconnect® and GrantsConnect®, to bring you the most comprehensive view of the corporate impact space using real platform activity. These findings represent a subset of our entire client and employee population with Canadian employees and evaluate program data from January – December 2025.

Our goal is to share tangible benchmarking data and identify measurable patterns in philanthropic behaviour, to help you make more informed decisions about your current and/or future program strategy.

What you’ll learn:

• Where employee participation is increasing and where it is quietly declining

• How top-performing programs are driving higher participation

• What’s changing in giving behaviour, and what that means for your strategy

• The role of program design, including ERGs, flexibility, and incentives, in driving results

• Benchmarks by company size and industry, so you can see how your program compares to your peers