A Year in Review: It’s Not Just About DEI in the Workplace. It’s All Around Us.
The Pro Bono for Economic Equity (PBEE) program is a skills-based volunteer program to help solve critical business challenges faced by Black-owned businesses. It was created by SAP in partnership with their long-time partner Pyxera Global to address the long-standing issue of social and systemic racial injustices within the United States, including in the business world.
Building Racial Equity in Brazil with the Baobá Fund
The Baobá Fund for Racial Equity is the first and only fund dedicated exclusively to the promotion of racial equity for the Black population in Brazil.
Shocks tend to expose the cracks in the system—but they can also illuminate the light that shines through
The Joint Initiative for Village Advancement (JIVA) is a holistic, demand-driven community development program co-created by the John Deere Foundation, Pyxera Global, and the communities they serve in Rajasthan, India. Growing from a pilot project area of three villages to 24 villages, JIVA’s mission is to improve the livelihoods and resilience of Indian smallholder farmers—by investing in the farmers of today and tomorrow. Its pillars—resilient agriculture, quality education, and leveraged talent from John Deere—are grounded in seven years of partnership, collaboration, learning, and adaptation.
Announcing the “Reimagining Economic Growth in New York City” Challenge
REG-NYC will bring together teams of employees from leading companies who will collaborate on ways to revitalize New York City through establishing circular economic models. The competition will help to foster new jobs, support circular businesses and start-ups, and ensure that low-and-moderate income (LMI) communities are part of the conversation around economic development and circularity.
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.
