In the middle of COVID and post-COVID, we have to have a lens of racial and social equity. We have to recognize the gaps and imbalances that exist in our community, the misdistribution of resources, and how that has disproportionately impacted the places and spaces where Black and Brown communities live and struggle to thrive.
This free virtual event is designed to help CSR leaders build employee engagement and corporate philanthropy programs in response to changing community needs.
What we’ve seen certainly in 2020 is that there has been a need for us to really open the door to these courageous conversations and talk about some of the challenges that we’re all facing, and for managers and leaders to be more vulnerable and to listen more.
New methods of impact measurement can more accurately capture and strengthen the value of volunteer hours, shares a new report from Common Impact and True Impact.
We’re really excited that we have been able to create an ecosystem of women working in sustainable fashion and becoming leaders in their community and in developing a sisterhood that they direct.
If we want to solve this public health crisis, we need to invest in education. If we want to solve the climate crisis, if we want to promote peace and security, economic growth, job creation – education is the key to unlocking all of these different social issues.
We need to be more explicit about understanding the systemic roots of these challenges and not just helping individual students beat the odds. Our work really needs to be about how do we contribute to changing the odds so that more students live in a city where their opportunities match their ambitions.
The fifth annual Fidelity Impact Week will engage over 400 employees in 81 skills-based volunteering projects with nonprofits across the U.S.
In another five, ten years, the companies that survive and thrive and emerge from this crisis in a stronger position are ones that have purpose truly integrated within what they are doing.
You don’t have to have the leading voice on a social issue. Just being at the table and having your brand be present goes a long way.
