Community Investment Report Deck

About this template

Written as an account, not a boast

Ten slides that report a year of community investment. An ESG report covers a wider field — environment, social and governance, external ratings, and a reconciliation against a disclosure standard. This deck takes the social pillar only and counts inputs, outputs and beneficiaries. The agenda reads “Resources committed”, “Outputs and beneficiaries”, “Last year’s activity and this year’s”, “Key metrics” and “Trend analysis”, with a divider and body slide on the first two. That order is the argument: how much went in, what it turned into, and who it reached.

Split the inputs into money, hours and in-kind

Slide 4 is the spine of the report: “KRW 640m of budget spent”, “3,280 volunteer hours in total” and “In-kind giving worth KRW 110m”. They are kept apart because a single combined figure makes the program look larger than it is. Volunteer hours are headcount multiplied by hours, so leave the arithmetic in a footnote. Value in-kind giving at the date of donation rather than at acquisition cost.

Outputs and beneficiaries count different things

On slide 6, “84 scholarships · 26,400 meals” and “12 facility repairs completed” count what the budget turned into, while “1,240 children · 6 districts” counts who received it. Mix the two and 26,400 meals reads as 26,400 people. Keep the units apart — outputs in units delivered, beneficiaries in people. Use only beneficiary counts you can check against a partner organization’s roster, and mark anything unverified as an estimate. To report program by program, duplicate a body slide together with its divider.

Where the shortfalls go

Slide 7 does that work. The 2025 column reads “Budget spread across 6 programs”, “268 employees took part” and “No counting rule for beneficiaries”. Writing down last year’s weaknesses explains this year’s improvements without any extra argument, and the 2026 column answers each in turn, ending with “Beneficiaries verified against partner rosters”. Where you fell short of a target, add it in brackets at the end of the matching line on the right. Fill this slide with achievements only and the report becomes a brochure.

Agree the counting rules before collecting figures

1. Period. Fiscal year or calendar year, fixed once and stated on the cover.
2. Scope. Headquarters only, or subsidiaries and partners as well.
3. People. Employee participation counted as cumulative attendances or as unique individuals.
4. Money. Cash disbursed and in-kind value counted separately, never added together.

Collect numbers before settling these four and departments will submit them on different bases. Settle them once and next year’s report compares on the same basis — and at the moment it becomes comparable, it stops being a brochure and becomes an account.

The four cards and the allocation chart

The cards are 6.4 / “Budget spent (KRW 100m)”, 3,280 / “Volunteer hours”, 1,240 / “Children reached” and 61% / “Employee participation”: money, time, people and take-up on one slide. The label carries the unit, so 6.4 reads as KRW 640m; edit the parentheses instead of adding a unit to the value. Slide 9 shows Education support 188, Meal support 164, Facility repairs 172 and Emergency relief 116 — budget allocation by program in millions of won, summing to 640, which is the same KRW 640m as the card. Add or remove a program and the total stops matching the card, so edit both together.

Before you publish

• Did you state whether employee participation is cumulative attendances or unique individuals? The two differ by more than a factor of two.
• Are beneficiaries double-counted? A child served by several programs counts once.
• Did you get consent before naming partner organizations?
• Is there a separate table of budget by program? Four bars are not enough to settle accounts against.
• Does the body actually carry both numbers promised by the closing line, “Money spent and people reached, together”?