Pandemic Update: The Nonprofit Community’s Overlooked Sectors Need Help
As COVID-19 overburdens our systems, challenges education continuance, and drives up unemployment, the importance of social impact organizations in these sectors is thrown into sharp relief. However, in the rush to support these critical services for communities in need, one cannot ignore the vital work that organizations in other social impact sectors continue to drive forward. Environment, gender equality, human rights, sustainable agriculture, and arts organizations, among others, are challenged by COVID-19 as well—but they risk being overlooked amid the urgency to aid a few key sectors.
Armenia Pivots to Online Education through DASARAN Platform
DASARAN, a social enterprise based in Yerevan, Armenia, is an entity that has sought to create opportunity amid adversity. The organization builds and facilitates technological solutions to help Armenia meet its education goals by providing innovative educational content and interactive learning solutions online for students, parents, teachers, administrators, and policymakers. DASARAN currently supports one-third of the Armenian population–over 1 million people–in K–12 education on its digital platform.
FAQs on Sustaining Your Social Impact Initiatives through Virtual Pro Bono
On Thursday April 30, 2020, my colleague Gavin Cepelak and I had a conversation with over 100 of our closest ‘friends’ around issues and trends corporations are facing in sustaining their social impact initiatives, and how to do so through virtual pro bono. Also joining us on the webinar was Yezenia Ramos, Senior Manager of Employee Engagement at Johnson & Johnson, who spoke about some of the ways the company is reimagining its social impact programs and ensuring employees remain engaged and involved with volunteer efforts virtually.
Tips to Engage Your Employees and Your Communities
Based on Pyxera Global’s 30 years of experience working with mission-driven organizations and through our partnerships with over 30 companies, we have developed best practices for companies seeking to support their employees’ continued community engagement in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
A Guidebook to Communicating with Global Pro Bono Program Stakeholders about COVID-19 Implications
All volunteer programs, from skills-based Global Pro Bono programs to traditional hands on engagements are experiencing significant changes to their plans as a result of COVID-19, with many programs postponed, canceled or shifted from in-person to virtual engagements. Informing program stakeholders—whether they are participating employees, host organizations, or other interested parties—about program changes and the long-term […]
Unleashing the Power of Collaboration to Reimagine Green(er) Solutions to Hunger
Scott Mather and Meredith Block of PIMCO discuss food insecurity and food waste in the context of Pyxera Global’s “Reimagining Green(er) Solutions to Hunger Challenge.”
Unlocking Opportunity in Rwanda with SAP
The spirit of Umuganda—a Kinyarwanda word roughly translated as ‘coming together in common purpose to achieve an outcome’—is familiar to SAP, a global software company dedicated to helping the world run better and improving people’s lives. SAP brings that dedication to life in their products, their services, and their people, including the SAP Social Sabbatical for executive engagement, a program in which SAP executives from around the world work with social organizations on mission-critical projects that will improve and expand their support to underserved communities.
COVID-19 Interventions: JPMorgan Chase Virtual Service Corps Partners for Change in Latin America
It is January 31st 2020, and Team Pescar’s wrap-up call is scheduled for today. After nearly three months of working together in a virtual context, the team is ready to review the project goals and key learnings. Fundación Pescar staff based in Buenos Aires and a group of five diverse JPMorgan Chase employees will connect via […]
