Steve Delfin | June 1, 2015
Engagement: From Strategy to Success
Driving Employee Engagement Through Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships
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βEach year, $10 billion is left unclaimed in matching gifts. Thatβs more than is raised in all employee workplace giving campaigns each year.β Μύ
With these words Ryan Scott, Causecast founder and CEO, instantly grabbed the attention of every person in the room at ΊΓΙ«ΟΘΙϊβs Charities recent Membership Assembly entitled Engagement: From Strategy to Success.Μύ Ryan was one of an amazing group of expert panelists assembled to provide progressive insights and practical tips designed to help ΊΓΙ«ΟΘΙϊβs Charitiesβ nonprofit members:
- grasp how to understand todayβs motivations and needs of prospective corporate collaborators;
- engage employees beyond the workplace to cultivate volunteering and giving; and
- leverage dataΜύto create a messages thatΜύinspires donors to action
ΊΓΙ«ΟΘΙϊβs Charities has published videos from each session and will issue several shorter video excerpts from those sessions in the coming weeks.Μύ You can for notifications when new clips are posted.
To whet your appetite here are some comments you will hear on our embedded below, which I will address more in-depth in my next series of blog posts:
Heather Lofkin Wright of PwC sharing how her firm now looks at their primary philanthropic relationships. βCompanies are driving their charitable relationships inside out versus outside in with major implications for how charities manage their corporate relationships.β
Anthony Shop, Social Driver discussing how todayβs volunteers and donors use social media. βEverybody is writing a real time autobiography every day.”
Chris Jarvis, Realized Worth noting that employee engagement around is more complex than ever, but also contains more opportunities. βEmployee engagement is about leveraging the progression of opportunities.β
Emily Simone, Lockheed Martin conveying how charities need to address todayβs workforce who are very βpurposeβ driven in all aspects of their lives. ΜύβItβs vital that companies and charities help people connect to their own purpose.”
Chris Brooks, Share Our Strength talked to the complexity and critical importance communicating impact to todayβs donors βCommunicating impact takes a village.”
Perli Ni, Greatnonprofits teed up a discussion on communicating impact by leveraging data and stories.Μύ βThere is a lack of compelling information for donors about which organizations to give to.β
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