“Making Positive Social Impact an Everyday Part of International Business: How the Private Sector Can Use International Development Companies to Improve Their Triple Bottom Line” was written by Bradford Strickland and Charito Kruvant of Creative Associates International. Their work discusses the impact of increased international funding by multi-national firms as they seek to meet the social needs of foreign governments and their citizens, improve environmental sustainability, and generate earnings for their company – The Triple Bottom Line. Kruvant and Strickland write that the expertise IDCs accrued assisting USAID for decades now allows for a logical and ready transition from assisting the U.S. government to corporations trying to achieve the same results, particularly as the level of U.S. foreign assistance continues to undergo constant downward pressure while multi-nationals continue to increase their spending.
