Impact Empowered: Recent Episodes
CyberGrants
Welcome to Impact Empowered! The podcast that enables leaders in social impact to amplify their message and boost the influence of their programs with confidence and agility. Fueled by a network of change-makers, you will hear from your peers and industry experts on best practices, tips, and trends. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned professional looking to adapt and scale, we are here to inspire and empower your philanthropy. In each episode, we deliver the best hard-hitting analysis of current trends in philanthropy and share cutting-edge ideas from leaders in philanthropy.
In today's episode, we'll be discussing how to drive awareness and maximize participation throughout the year with Pete Karns, Chief Product Officer and General Manager at CyberGrants. Joining Pete is Carolyn Ripley, Product Manager, and Sasha DeMarre, Solutions Architect who will share strategies for achieving and measuring impact with proven tactics from leading philanthropic organizations.
Access additional employee giving resources:
- The Importance of Recurring Giving in 2022
- Keeping Remote Workers Emotionally Invested
- Investing Hearts, Hands, and Minds in Service to Communities
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here
The Levi Strauss Foundation’s philanthropic work is grounded in the company's values of originality, integrity, empathy, and courage. Its mission is to advance the human rights and well-being of underserved people in places where Levi Strauss & Co. has a business presence.
At the Levi Strauss Foundation, their employee resource groups were created because they recognize the value of creating a safe space for diverse employees to come together and add their voices. Since their creation, Levi's ERGs have also been critical partners in recruitment and retention, marketing, brand enhancement, training, and community.
In Today's episode, we'll be discussing the genesis of the Levi Strauss foundation's Employee Resource groups, an overview of their current program, and how these programs have enhanced their CSR efforts to broaden community outreach with Sarah Negron, Operations and Program Manager at Levi Strauss Foundation.
Access additional employee engagement resources:
- Gearing Up For Giving Tuesday
- The Power of Employee Giving and Volunteering
- Employee Giving Programs: The Key to Engaging Millennials
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
Giving Tuesday is a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world. GivingTuesday reimagines a world built upon shared humanity and generosity.
Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts, and everyone has something to give.
In Today's episode, we'll be discussing Uniting Your GivingTuesday Efforts, A look back at Perspectives for success from GivingTuesday and CyberGrants from 2020, as Woodrow Rosenbaum, GivingTuesday’s data expert dives into his key findings and unique perspective on giving last year using their data-driven research approach. CyberGrants' Pete Karns will expand upon the importance of operational efficiency in corporate giving between donors and nonprofits.
Access additional giving resources:
-Google Sheet: 2021 CSR Planning Calendar
- Complimentary Guide: Giving Made Simple
- Results from GivingTuesday Now, with Netscout
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
The PepsiCo Foundation believes that thriving communities can change the world. That’s why their Foundation has been investing in social impact since 1962, focusing on supporting the essential elements of a sustainable food system—helping to alleviate hunger, managing water and waste responsibly, and supporting women to drive economic growth and food security.
The PepsiCo Foundation is a key driver of progress against PepsiCo’s sustainability agenda which aims to build a more sustainable food system. Through strategic partnerships and programs globally, their Foundation seeks to tackle the long-term challenges facing the global food system and do the most good for the most people. They strive for tangible impact in the places where they live and work—collaborating with industry peers, local and international organizations, and their employees to affect large-scale change in the spaces that matter to them and on issues of global importance.
In Today's episode, we'll be discussing how the PepsiCo Foundation meets basic needs and feeds potential toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals with
Marcie Passarella, Senior Director of Global Citizenship & Sustainability at PepsiCo.
Access additional ESG resources:
- The Power of Employee Giving and Volunteering Everything You Need To Know
- Smarter Giving: Balancing Data-Driven Giving and Compliance Strategies
- How to Start an Employee Volunteer Program
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
U.S. Bank is dedicated to supporting their communities through responsive and humbled actions focused on addressing racial and economic inequities and creating lasting change in our communities. Through the Community Possible Grant Program, they are partnering with organizations that focus on economic and workforce advancement, safe and affordable housing, and communities connected through arts and culture.
In today's episode we'll be discussing unified giving, volunteering, and engagement through the Community Possible program with Jamie Inn, Vice President, National Manager of Community Engagement at US Bank, and Pete Karns, SVP Product and Client Services, CyberGrants.
Access additional diversity and inclusion resources:
- Ebook: Keeping Remote Workers Emotionally Invested
- Tackling the Challenges of a Remote Workforce
- Engaging your extended community: How to amplify your impact where cause and community intersect.
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
The word 'unprecedented' enters nearly every conversation surrounding the past year and a half, but it is no doubt an apt description of the impact 2020 had on donors and charities alike. The landscape of corporate philanthropy may never be the same, and maybe that's OK. It's been said that which mends grows back stronger - and the same is true for our community.
In this episode, we'll discuss The Future of International Philanthropy and Future Proofing Nonprofits with Mark Layden, CyberGrants CEO as he hosts Ted Hart, President, and CEO of Charities Aid Foundation of America (CAF America).
Access resources:
- The Voice of Charities Facing COVID-19 | Volume 7
- Innovating Incredible: FrontDoor - Keeping the needs of nonprofits at the forefront.
- How FrontDoor works
- How The Giving Landscape and Strategic Initiatives Have Changed During COVID-19
Medical affairs grantmaking processes have typically evolved ad hoc and are largely manual. They’re complex and inconsistent. But now, there’s a solution that gives you the agility to handle the different types of grants, multinational borders, and business units, regulatory differences, and siloed sources of information. Result? Unprecedented flexibility, visibility, and improved risk control across all your medical grantmaking.
In this episode, we'll be discussing four keys to creating a frictionless program that maximizes patient outcomes, with Zach Gendron Senior Account Executive at CyberGrants. Learn how to overcome challenges to medical affairs grantmaking and streamline processes to make a bigger impact.
Access additional volunteerism resources:
- Proven Treatment for Fragmented Medical Grants
- Is your grantmaking a fractured process?
- Drug delivery in less than 24 hours: Accelerating access during a pandemic
- The Biggest Threats to Your Corporate Philanthropy Initiatives
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
International Paper makes sustainable investments to protect and improve the lives of their employees and mobilize their people, products, and resources to address critical needs in the communities where their employees live and work. They believe diverse workplaces create more opportunities for innovation and collaboration. By embracing inclusion and diversity, they’re promoting the success of both our teams and our company. To achieve this The IP Way Forward is the guiding methodology on how they go beyond just doing the right things; it’s how they create value for all stakeholders for generations to come.
In this episode, we'll be discussing how International Paper approaches employee engagement, sustainability, and their most comprehensive global response in the company’s history to help support their local and global communities during the pandemic with Dr. Alissa Campbell Shaw.
Access additional employee and community engagement resources:
- Ebook: Keeping Remote Workers Emotionally Invested
- Tackling the Challenges of a Remote Workforce
- Engaging your extended community: How to amplify your impact where cause and community intersect.
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
Comcast launched its Values Report that upholds its longstanding commitment to diversity, inclusion, and keeping people connected to what matters most. Join CyberGrants Lisa Watkinson and Alexandra Dailerian of Comcast NBCUniversal as they discuss their efforts to mobilize as a company to help create a more equitable and inclusive society. They will also discuss how Comcast has developed its giving strategy through data, trends, and a strong commitment to employee feedback and interests.
In this episode, we'll be discussing how Comcast NBCUniversal pivoted their employee engagement programs to offer a one-stop-shop experience across all brands, their quick transition to virtual volunteer programs, and how they have focused their efforts on local communities and digital equity during the pandemic.
Access additional diversity and inclusion resources:
- A Year-Round Rainbow: Why Pride Shouldn't End in June
- Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive: The Business of Adapting Your Giving Strategy For More Meaningful Impact
- Giving Back Never Goes Out of Style: Levi Strauss Foundation responds to issues affecting marginalized and disenfranchised communities
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!
Many employees have proven that they truly care about giving back to their communities with their time. If given the opportunity and tools these individuals will help manage events, log their completed hours or acts of kindness, and even share opportunities with other coworkers to get more engaged.
Though this may be the case for those who have these natural leaders and enthusiasts to help drive volunteering, it can be an everlasting question of "How do we get our employees to participate more?".
By offering unique volunteering opportunities and incentives, we recognize more engagement and excitement to participate. This can include allowing employees to create and manage events that they care about, offering a grant to the organization they engage with, and even allowing employees to show how they contribute to being "green". This may not include hours specifically, but it is meaningful to the employee that their company cares about their passions. The programs you offer are critical to driving growth, as your employees want more options to volunteer and make a difference.
In this episode, we'll be discussing ways to engage employees in your purpose with CyberGrants Solution Architect, Leah Olivieri.
Access additional volunteerism resources:
- Investing Hearts, Hands and Minds in Service with US Bank (Video)
- Managing Volunteering in a Virtual Environment with J&J (Video)
- The Power of Employee Giving and Volunteering (Guide)
- 7 Research-Backed Benefits of Providing Employee Volunteering Programs (Video)
- How to Start an Employee Volunteer Program (Guide)
At CyberGrants, we help 400+ customers across the globe with all their corporate philanthropic giving including working with 650,000+ NPOs and managing $6.5 billion in donations annually. Learn more about us here!