Hi Siobhan, good question. I haven’t seen enough data to build a good sense of the success rate. Some of that is just the time scales—a lot of these campaigns have been in the past few years and we haven’t had a chance to see how good the follow through is.
There is some evidence that even companies that are breaking their commitments have made progress. When we do get companies to recommit, they’ll start publishing their numbers. A lot of them have made some progress (like 5% to 20%) and a few of them have made a lot of progress, getting close to 100% (maybe they broke their commitment because they didn’t want to be beholden to us?). Based on these bumps from the original commitment, I think it’s plausible that recommitment would cause another bump.
Hi Zachary, do you have any notion of the success rate in going from recommitment → realised changes?
Also, thanks for your service! 6+ years is a lot of volunteering.
Hi Siobhan, good question. I haven’t seen enough data to build a good sense of the success rate. Some of that is just the time scales—a lot of these campaigns have been in the past few years and we haven’t had a chance to see how good the follow through is.
There is some evidence that even companies that are breaking their commitments have made progress. When we do get companies to recommit, they’ll start publishing their numbers. A lot of them have made some progress (like 5% to 20%) and a few of them have made a lot of progress, getting close to 100% (maybe they broke their commitment because they didn’t want to be beholden to us?). Based on these bumps from the original commitment, I think it’s plausible that recommitment would cause another bump.
Might they just be lying about the numbers?