Net Zero Transition Plans Should be Centered around Justice and Inclusion
The net zero transition is core to being a responsible business and should incorporate circular economy strategies, leverage cross-sector partnerships, center justice and inclusion into plans, and demonstrate progress through the ESGs to ensure the transition benefits business and society.
SAP Pro Bono for Economic Equity: A Skills-based Volunteer Program to Support Black-owned Businesses
In an effort to provide additional support specifically to Black-owned small businesses, SAP has expanded its skills-based volunteer programming to include the Pro Bono for Economic Equity program in partnership with PYXERA Global. Through this initiative, SAP will offer the skills, talent, and expertise of its employees at virtually no cost.
Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge to Deliver Telehealth to Underserved Areas Ends with Strategies for Expansion
Pyxera Global’s Reimagining Community Health Systems Challenge ended in September with U.S. Community Health Centers poised to play a stronger role in expanding telehealth services for 30 million low-income patients and plans created for forward-thinking remote patient monitoring systems in Iowa. That’s a long way from the Challenge’s kick off in early August, when Pyxera Global brought […]
The Future of Global Pro Bono
The world of corporate volunteering has many different flavors, with traditional volunteering & skills-based volunteering being the most well-known. A specialized kind of skills-based volunteering is the field of Global Pro Bono (GPB), which brings talented employees from the private sector to volunteer their skills & professional expertise to address key business challenges for social sector organizations.
Social Awakening and Structural Racism in Latin America
Talking about race is complex and multi-layered, yet necessary. These conversations have forced their way onto the agenda in Latin America. The following is a candid conversation between Pyxera Global’s Latin America Regional Leads, Carolina Gowland, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Fernanda Scur, based in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Rhetoric to Action: How Corporations Can Dismantle Structural Racism
On September 16, 2020, Pyxera Global hosted the first of several conversations as part of the Rhetoric to Action webinar series. The series intends to bring leaders from across-sectors to discuss meaningful actions that can dismantle structural racism.
Reducing Inequalities through Human Capital
Several of our corporate partners have come to us in recent months asking “what can we do?”
They want to know what they can do to help marginalized communities get access to the healthcare they need to fight COVID-19 (Learn more through our Reimagining Community Health Systems program). What they can do to address systemic racism and how they can mobilize their talent to address structural inequalities that destabilize marginalized communities in complex ways.
Global Voices Consider the Future of Pro Bono
To help celebrate Pro Bono Week 2020, PYXERA Global is bringing together our global colleagues to share key takeaways from the 2020 virtual Pro Bono Network’s Regional Summits held in Latin America and the Asia Pacific in partnership with the Global Pro Bono Network and the support of the BMW Foundation in Germany. Global Pro Bono in the Time […]
