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Giving Back Through Tough Times
Employee Giving Programs that Boost Your Bottom Line
CREATINGCOLLECTIVE BENEFITEmployees and Community Investment at Gap Inc.
Gail GershonDirector, Employee EngagementGap FoundationGap Inc.
GAP FOUNDATION’S ROLE
Global Social Investor
Employee Catalyst
Business Advisor
OUR PURPOSE
To fulfill personal promise to change
the course of lives in an
effort to break the cycle of poverty
STRATEGIC PILLARS 2TARGETCAUSES 2
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STRATEGIC PILLARS
COMMUNITY
EMPLOYEESSHAREHOLDERS
CONSUMERS
COLLECTIVEBENEFIT
LEVERAGECOMPANY ASSETS
THE VIRTUOUS CYCLE
Strategic Pillar #1: WE’RE BEYOND CASH
LEVERAGECOMPANY ASSETS
Employees Stores Vendor relationships Brands Marketing Product
WE BELIEVE EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET.
How we engage employees to drive social change:
• Hands-on volunteerism.
• Skills-based volunteerism and pro bono service.
• Employee financial giving.
• Recognition programs to inspire employees and promote innovation.
• Gap Inc. matches employee donations of both money and time.
Strategic Pillar #2:
THE VIRTUOUS CYCLE
COMMUNITY
EMPLOYEESSHAREHOLDERS
CUSTOMERS
CollectiveBenefitdrivessustainability
TWO TARGET CAUSES
(Developed World Target Cause)
Youth empowerment through employment
YOUTH 12-18
(Developing World Target Cause)
Women’s advancement through life & work skills education
WOMEN 18-30
Our developed world target cause, youth empowerment through employment, leverages Gap Inc. employee expertise around preparing young people for first job success.
“We believe there’s a promise that exists in all of us and it’s not just in
the people we serve, but it’s in ourselves.”
KAREN DAVIS
GIVING THE GIFTS OF HOPE, PLAY AND A HELPING HAND
“Our mission is to assist children intriumphing over critical life obstacles
and bring the joy of play into their lives”
Hope = Grants
Play = Product
Helping Hand =Team Hasbro
TWO TYPES OF GIVING
Philanthropic Partnerships• Multi-Year Grants
• Product• Employee Engagement
Local Support• Where we have offices
• Yearly grants• Product
• Employee Engagement
STRATEGIC FOCUS
• Support children in need
• Put product into the hands of children who would otherwise not experience the joy of play
• Team Hasbro: Employees are given four hours a month to volunteer with children
• Employee Giving: Employees are given the opportunity to contribute toour philanthropic partners
EXAMPLE: GIVE KIDS THE WORLD
• Grants• Boundless Playground• Christmas Every Thursday
• Product• Candy Land Customize Game• Product Donations for
Thursday Event
• Team Hasbro• Designed Game• Designed Playground• General Volunteering at Event
• Cause Marketing• My Little Pony 25th Anniversary• La-Ti-Da Children’s Spa• Product at Retail to Support GKTW
PepsiCo FoundationSnapshot
• Founded in 1962 by Pepsi-Cola Company prior to Frito-Lay merger in 1965
• Philanthropic arm of PepsiCo Inc.
• Making grants outside of the U.S. since 2005
• Average annual spend $31mm– Grant portfolios worldwide– Leveraging engagement– Disaster relief & recovery
PepsiCo FoundationMission
As PepsiCo’s philanthropic anchor, the PepsiCo Foundation is committed to developing sustainable partnerships and programs that provide opportunities for improved Health, Environment and Education, with an emphasis on underservedcommunities in the U.S.and in developingcountries.
Complementing Performance with Purpose
• Food Security and Under-Nutrition
• Over-Nutrition • Energy Balance
• Water Security• Safe Water to 1MM• More “Crop Per
Drop”
• High School Graduation Rates
• Opportunity for Underserved Groups
HumanSustainability
EnvironmentalSustainability
TalentSustainability
Economic Development in Emerging Markets
Social ROI
Investment not Subsidy
Moves the World Forward
Taps Our Strengths & Core Competencies
Smart Philanthropy
• Results driven; metrics
• Scalability
• Capacity building
• Local relevance
• Market-driven solutions
• Distribution of dollars– RFP process; re-granting– Micro finance and credit
• Leverage: Challenge & Matching
• Engagement
– Service Corps
– Associates
– Pro bono
– Skills
Grant Example: Health PortfolioSave the Children
• Give $5 million over three years
• Prevent malnutrition and mortality in children under five-years-old in India and Bangladesh
• Work with community health educators to teach and train families about nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene
• Expanding the partnership across regions – coordinated CSR programming
Grant Example: Health Portfolio World Food Programme
• The UN’s frontline agency in the fight against hunger
• Feeds 90 million people, mostly children,in 80 countries
• Program to assist with improving WFP’s logistical capabilities
• PepsiCo Foundation ServiceCorps – Retired Associates
Purification of the waterfor the community
Sanitation & Hygieneat discharge to prevent
recontamination
Environment PortfolioChoosing Strategic Innovative PartnersA three-pronged approach to bring safe water to one million people in underserved populations by 2010
Distributionto the peoplethat need it
Protection at the Watershed resource
“last mile”
Grant Example: Inclusion PortfolioEscalera
• $2.08 million in 2008-2009• Program created with National Council of La Raza in 2001• Goal: increase High School graduation rates of Latinos and
prepare students for college and careers• Escalera is now a “signature” program, active in seven cities in
the U.S. • Spawned new national “Diplomas Now” dropout
prevention program for underservedyouth in middle and high schools
• Regional overlap withDiamond Scholars program
• Adelante engagement is acore component
Employee Programs
• $9.2 million in 2008
• ExCEL Scholarships
• United Way
• Matching Gifts Program
Purpose Continuum
Everyone, every function, every division & every company in PepsiCo has a role and opportunity to do good by doing well.
Next Steps for Contributions
• Advancing engagement in our DNA• Weaving our competencies deeper into the
business to further social benefit • Sustainability guides us to move beyond cause• Anchor the enterprise on purpose, partnering,
Social ROI & impacts• Linking & aligning in a decentralized system –
“herding cats” to drive strategic impacts• Expanding our network of foundations• Growing skills based engagement
Claire LyonsGlobal Grant Portfolios
Foundation & ContributionsSeptember 23, 2009 - Global Giving & HR Magazine
July 2009
Guaranteed Goodness.September 2009
GlobalGiving
web platformwww.globalgiving.org
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projects
=corporate solutions
Example: Liquidnet HoldingsCustom Gift Cards
• Employees’ kids
• New employees
• Customer recognition
Example: SA Gems – Cause Marketing
• Diamond distributor created small program with retailers
• Contribution in honor of buyers of diamonds over set price
• $1 for every carat sold by participating retailers
Institutional Partners
20+INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS