Corporate Responsibility Inaugural Report - Deloitte

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Responsibility to our Community: Community InvolvementAt the heart of community involvement at Deloitte is a genuine desire todrive change and improvement where the needs are most critical in ourcommunities. As a professional services organization, the most effectiveway for us to make an impact in the community is to leverage the knowledgeand experience of our people.Rather than focusing on a single social issue, we take a competency-basedapproach, intended to advance operational excellence among leading localand national nonprofits that addresses a range of community concerns –from poverty to education to environmental sustainability.By putting our business skills to work in the nonprofit sector, we givenonprofits the resources they need to manage their business challengesand, in turn, more effectively address pervasive social issues.How do we know nonprofits need our skills? According to the 2006 Deloitte/Points of Light Foundation Volunteer IMPACT Survey, most nonprofits (77percent) agree that they would benefit from skills-based volunteerism, butbarely more than one in ten (12 percent) actually align their volunteerassignments with workplace skills. This discrepancy is indicative of thetremendous opportunity we have to help nonprofits drive impact in thecommunity.“Our innovative leadership in thearea of corporate communityinvolvement is an important measureof our overall commitment toresponsible corporate citizenship.By engaging the talent of our peopleto drive operational excellenceacross the nonprofit sector, ourcommunity involvement programdoes more than provide temporarysolutions to community concerns.It enables us to achieve significantand sustainable social change ina manner that strengthens ourcommunities, our people, andour business.”—Evan Hochberg,National Director,Community Involvement,Deloitte Services LPOur community involvement strategy is manifested through our manycommunity programs and alliances. Below are some examples of howour strategy was realized over the past year:IMPACT Day 2008On June 6, 2008, 32,500 Deloitte professionals engaged in more than 700projects in over 70 communities across the United States and India. Of thoseprojects, nearly one third (30 percent) were skills-based.Deloitte professionals whoparticipated in IMPACT Day 2008In keeping with Deloitte’s focus on skills-based volunteerism, we launchedan innovative new program model in cities across the country that enabled usnot only to head out into the community to make a difference, but to open ourdoors to the community and welcome them into our offices. Bringing togethermore than 800 nonprofit executives, representing close to 500 organizations,we hosted a series of business training workshops designed to provide nonprofitleaders with the critical knowledge needed to run effective organizations.Based on its success, the program will be expanded during 2008.Problem Solvers FundThe Deloitte Problem Solvers Fund invests in local community initiativeswhere our people are deeply engaged to expand capacity of the nonprofitsector. In its first two years, the fund invested in strategic initiatives rangingfrom developing mentorship programs and national expansion plans to forgingnew links between competing nonprofits in challenging urban environments.Among the projects supported by the fund in 2007 was the Roadmap toPreparedness: Connecting Nonprofits in Times of Disaster, in which Deloitte’sfederal practice led nonprofits in the Greater Washington, D.C. area to identifygaps in disaster preparedness. Extensive research and disaster simulationsessions will culminate in 2008 with a strategic emergency response planfor the nonprofit sector.14 P Please consider the environment before printing
New Pro Bono ProgramOn June 1, 2008, Deloitte launched a new pro bono program that provides aformal budget, as well as policies and procedures to support up to $50 millionin cross-functional pro bono engagements over the next three years.One of the first of its kind in the marketplace, the new program builds projectsinto our annual planning and budgeting to ensure that pro bono engagementsreceive the same level of service excellence as Deloitte’s traditional businessclients.Thanks in large part to the new program, President Bush recently recognizedDeloitte as an exemplary corporate citizen and presented Barry Salzberg,Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte LLP, with the President’s VolunteerService Award.College SummitIn 2008, we continued our commitment to College Summit, a nationalnonprofit that helps high schools in low-income communities raise theircollege enrollment rates. Through an integrated mix of philanthropy, pro bono,skills-based volunteerism, and leadership, we have committed $2 million tohelp College Summit achieve its mission. Some of our most notableachievements to date include:• Our College Summit pro bono team launched a new College EnrollmentData Warehouse in April 2008. Reports that previously took 15 hours tocomplete, now take less than a quarter of the time to process; enablingCollege Summit staff to spend more time conducting the critical analysisnecessary to make a college education more attainable forlow-income students.• We more than doubled the number of Deloitte volunteers who participatedin College Summit’s summer workshops, making Deloitte College Summit’slargest corporate volunteer contributor for the past two years.• Barry Salzberg, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte LLP, joined the CollegeSummit National Board of Directors, and a number of other senior leadersserve on the local College Summit boards.These are just a few of the many ways community involvement at Deloitte isredefining corporate community involvement and digging deep in our localcommunities to deliver sustainable social change.15P Please consider the environment before printing
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