This yr’s bbcon might be an action-packed three days of content material and collaboration for company influence professionals. With extra buyer tales and program spotlights than ever, informative thought-leadership classes, and galvanizing keynote audio system, there’s one thing for everybody at this occasion.
If you happen to’re not aware of bbcon, it’s Blackbaud’s annual convention that convenes hundreds of change-makers, designed to gasoline your influence and show you how to discover your group. This yr’s vacation spot: Seattle!
YourCause and EVERFI from Blackbaud are thrilled concerning the bbcon 2024 Company Impression observe. Attendees will get an opportunity to listen to insights from business specialists in addition to partake in some thrilling discussions round CSR and worker engagement finest practices.
This yr’s agenda for corporations has a ton of thrilling new parts, as we plan to deliver collectively worker engagement, inclusion, and social influence leaders to current classes round office tradition methods for DEI recalibration, fostering inclusive workplaces, group influence by way of holistic well being and equitable training, in addition to driving worker engagement in giving and volunteerism.
The session lineup is curated to ring a bell with professionals working in CSR, ESG, HR, or DEI – actually anybody seeking to interact workers and create influence! We encourage you to learn on and be taught extra concerning the content material and connection-building potentialities we’ve in retailer for our Company Impression observe at bbcon 2024:
Draw inspiration from consumer tales
Worker Fundraising: Activate Workers to Drive an Impactful and Inventive Fundraising Marketing campaign
Introduced by Utilized Supplies
Hear from the Utilized Supplies workforce about how they lead workers throughout over a dozen websites to lift $1.7 million for meals banks all through North America annually by way of a aggressive workforce fundraising effort. This session will embrace an in depth breakdown of the marketing campaign management construction, communications technique, and the way the workforce leverages YourCause® CSRconnect® to allow practically 6,000 donations to 58 meals banks inside one month. The workforce may even share inventive concepts for employee-led fundraising occasions (seems, you CAN throw a pie in your executives’ faces and get away with it!).
Grants to People: The Rise of Belief-Primarily based Philanthropy
Introduced by Wells Fargo in partnership with E4E aid
Belief-based philanthropy’s origin story and foundational ideas embrace the idea of sowing and reaping: the extra organizations sow into people affected by catastrophe and hardship, the extra these people in flip assist communities reap a constructive harvest by way of their constructive societal contributions. Learn the way, from a CSR perspective, trust-based philanthropy has rapidly grow to be the gold customary for firm leaders who place a premium on workforce stewardship and a collaborative strategy to investing in workers’ general wellbeing.
Audio system will share the social and enterprise outcomes they see instantly ensuing from grantmaking to people and different packages that increase belief and yield excessive outcomes. They may even focus on how the preservation of people’ dignity, autonomy, and human capital-grounded trust-based philanthropy is the baseline for firm leaders concerned about providing workers the chance to each contribute to and obtain emergency monetary aid.
Empowering College students to Discover Their Future and Make it Extra Equitable
Introduced by the Heart for Audit High quality in partnership with EVERFI from Blackbaud
What did you wish to be whenever you have been in highschool? What if you happen to had the chance to discover rewarding careers that you simply hadn’t heard about earlier than? How would possibly which have affected your life’s trajectory? That’s the chance we’re offering each day to highschool college students throughout the nation – the information and sources to encourage college students to pursue a profession and future that matches up with their targets and goals.
If you happen to’re questioning – “What does that seem like?”, “How do you attain college students who would profit most?”, and “What sort of influence are you able to truly make?”, then that is the precise session for you.
Learnings shared might be relevant to all CSR professionals who’re exploring how they’ll join with colleges and college students in modern and fascinating methods to assist drive a extra equitable future by way of career-related and different foundational alternatives for college students.
Leveraging World Ambassadors to Drive Impression
Introduced by MillerKnoll
This session is concentrated on harnessing the facility of worker volunteers from numerous backgrounds in 30+ communities world wide to amplify strategic philanthropic initiatives on a worldwide scale. This strategy faucets into the distinctive attain and persuasive energy of ambassadors to transcend cultural and geographical boundaries, thereby driving important influence in focused areas of concern.
We’ll cowl methods for choosing the precise ambassadors, aligning their strengths and platforms with organizational targets, and creating symbiotic relationships that profit each the ambassadors and the trigger. Attendees will go away with actionable insights on constructing and optimizing ambassador packages to realize measurable outcomes and foster sustainable change.
Informative Thought-Management Classes
The State of Worker & Group Engagement
Introduced by the Affiliation of Company Citizenship Professionals (ACCP), the Chief Executives for Company Objective (CECP), and YourCause from Blackbaud
This session is concentrated on offering vital information and insights to assist drive motion and influence. A number of key exterior components can affect and influence our worker and group engagement, however there are additionally key company social influence sector tendencies in volunteering, giving, and broader philanthropic exercise that may assist present insights into ways in which CSR methods and packages can additional evolve.
On this session we are going to discover a mix of information and insights from the YourCause twelfth Annual Trade Assessment, ACCP’s fifth Annual CSR Insights Survey, in addition to key factors from numerous 2024 information and analysis reviews from CECP. In flip, we are going to discover the intersection of broader sector-wide investments and tendencies, insights into trending ranges of engagement tied to varied programmatic choices, and the corresponding pressures and impacts on company social influence professionals and leaders.
Harnessing the Energy of Accountable AI and Information for Social Good
Introduced by Blackbaud and True Impression
Synthetic Intelligence (AI) has been round because the Forties, however generative AI has exploded on the scene with the recognition of ChatGPT and BingAI. In flip, generative AI has accelerated how people, nonprofits, and firms ought to take into consideration the influence AI will make sooner or later. On this session we are going to focus on the evolution of AI, the significance of accountable, moral, and accessible AI and Information insurance policies and practices, the sensible makes use of of AI and Information for the social good immediately, and the methods outcomes and influence could be dropped at life, from numbers to narratives, by way of instruments like Blackbaud’s Impression Edge.
Group Engagement and Group Well being
Introduced by Hospital Company of America (HCA) and EVERFI from Blackbaud
The well being of communities is impacted by numerous socioeconomic components that average entry to healthcare, wholesome meals, and high-quality training. Nonprofits and company social influence packages could be important assist networks that assist alleviate inequities related to these components by way of the supply of concepts, philanthropic sources, and different aids to communities striving to realize their group well being targets.
A vital element of those partnerships is to think about insights from each communities and firms when aligning grants and philanthropic loans to group wants. When corporations’ company social accountability methods think about the range, values, and views inside communities, they’re well-positioned to collaborate on initiatives that promote wholesome, thriving communities.
This session will present examples of how communities and firms can accomplice to comprehensively tackle group well being wants, together with sharing group well being training alternatives for Ok-12 college students and adults.
The way to Lead Inclusively in an More and more Advanced Office
Introduced by YourCause from Blackbaud
Workplaces immediately are extra numerous than ever, as workers deliver all kinds of backgrounds, experiences, communication types, beliefs, and values to work. However merely having a various workforce isn’t sufficient to unlock its many enterprise advantages. Leaders should be deliberately inclusive so everybody on the workforce can contribute totally.
On this session, we’ll discover how one can grow to be a extra inclusive chief by modeling inclusive behaviors and assuredly navigating worker variations and conflicts, so you may create a thriving workforce tradition the place all workers really feel like they belong and are valued.
Unlocking the Highly effective Connection Between Worker Properly-being and Engagement
Introduced by YourCause and EVERFI from Blackbaud
Be part of us as we discover the pivotal function your worker well-being technique can have on company social influence packages. Whereas there are lots of levers that drive and encourage worker engagement in company social influence initiatives, too many organizations fail to notice the intersectionality between well-being and engagement.
On this presentation, we are going to delve into the analysis that identifies why organizations must prioritize worker well-being, define how HR, DEI, and CSR colleagues can collaborate on reworking their work environments to assist well-being, and share methods to extend worker participation throughout volunteering, philanthropy, and Worker Useful resource Group (ERG) initiatives. Attendees may even have an opportunity to take part in group dialogue to be taught from friends and share their very own insights and challenges on this space.
Recalibrating DEI: The Motion Towards Holistic Inclusion
Introduced by Common Mills, Medica Well being Plans, and Blackbaud
Throughout this open dialog, we’ll dive into what number of organizations are evolving their strategy and recalibrating their range, fairness, and inclusion methods and packages immediately. The session will start by inspecting the state of the range, fairness, inclusion panorama, to know how it’s impacting organizations. We’ll then discover how organizations are taking a extra holistic strategy to inclusion throughout id teams and the complete worker expertise.
Panelists will share examples of how organizations are making use of the inclusion lens to worker engagement methods, similar to guaranteeing CSR packages are inclusive or breaking down silos between DEI, CSR, HR, and Sustainability capabilities. Be part of this partaking session to be taught extra concerning the modern practices shaping inclusive workplaces in 2024 and past.
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Don’t miss out on this chance to attach with business specialists and take your CSR and social influence efforts to new heights. Register now for bbcon 2024 and unlock a world of information, networking, and actionable methods to amplify your influence!
