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Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Cause Consulting advises Adobe Systems Incorporated on a range of corporate social responsibility, community engagement, and philanthropy programs. We collaborate with Adobe Corporate Affairs and Adobe Foundation teams on the implementation and expansion of the company’s global signature philanthropic initiative, Adobe Youth Voices. Launched in 2006, this initiative engages thousands of young people in more than 30 countries to create media for social change. The Adobe Foundation provides funding, expertise, professional development for educators, and resources to schools, afterschool programs and youth media organizations. Through the
Adobe Youth Voices
program, young people create videos, documentary films, animations, photographs, Web designs and radio diaries that capture their perspectives on issues such as the environment, poverty, and racism. Program participants share personal stories about their lives and how they have overcome obstacles. As part of the Adobe Youth Voices team, we provide counsel on overall strategy and on long-term planning, partnership development, marketing, and exhibition activities. We help forge and manage alliances with organizations such as MTV, PBS, the Advertising Council, and Human Rights Watch to showcase the students’ media and build international awareness of the program. Together with Adobe’s Corporate Social Responsibility leadership and committees, we are helping to guide the company’s CSR evolution. We audit Adobe’s current CSR initiatives; identify opportunities; and advise on the new program creation.
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ARAMARK
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ARAMARK
PDF - Case Study on Building a Signature Cause Program Cause Consulting collaborates with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Community Affairs teams of ARAMARK, a $12 billion leader in professional services, whose over 240,000 employees provide food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to thousands of institutions and businesses around the world. Together, we developed and introduced ARAMARK's first company-wide social responsibility platform, Enriching Lives Every Day, and crafted internal operations and communications strategies for the environmental sustainability; health and wellness; employee advocacy; and community involvement arenas. Within this master CSR framework, we created, piloted and launched ARAMARK Building Community, a signature philanthropic commitment to strengthen our nation's neighborhood community centers and provide vital workforce readiness, nutrition, and basic support services for millions of families in need. A national employee volunteerism tour is currently underway with events in 30 U.S. markets.
AMD
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AMD
Together with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a global technology company dedicated to igniting the next generation of computing and graphics solutions, we created and launched
AMD Changing the Game
. This signature cause program inspires young people to learn by enabling them to build their own digital games with social issues content. A core part of AMD's commitment to education, this global initiative supports in and after school programs that use games to teach a range of science, technology, engineering, math, language arts and communications skills that will better prepare disadvantaged young people to participate in a global digital workforce and society. By integrating sponsorships, grants, seminars, toolkits, curriculum, and communications, AMD Changing the Game pushes the boundaries of gaming beyond entertainment, extending it out of the living room and in to the classroom. Through this initiative, AMD seeks to evolve digital games into powerful learning tools that can also improve our world.
Playpumps International
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PlayPumps International
As part of the global team that launched PlayPumps International, Cause Consulting developed positioning, branding, and communications strategies to help this new organization bring clean drinking water to millions of African families through the innovative PlayPump Water System. It's simple: "kids play, water pumps!" In partnership with the Case Foundation, we developed a message platform; logo, and identity system; branded communications materials; corporate alliance strategies; and marketing plans. Today over 2,000 PlayPumps are improving lives throughout Africa.
Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams / Boston Beer Company
Cause Consulting advises The Boston Beer Company, the innovative brewer that in 1985 introduced Samuel Adams Boston Lager and helped ignite the craft beer movement, on strategic philanthropy and brand enhancement. Together, we developed and launched
Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream
, the company's signature philanthropy initiative and campaign. Visit our blog to see
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. This program takes a revolutionary approach to helping lower income entrepreneurs in the food & beverage and hospitality industries gain financial independence. By giving them access to critical tools and resources to start, strengthen, or expand their small businesses, Boston Beer is helping these tenacious risk-takers achieve economic stability, create jobs, and ignite commerce in communities. In addition to providing much needed capital to small businesses, the program also engages Samuel Adams employees who work closely with “microenterpreneurs” providing coaching on marketing, sales & distribution, packaging, PR, legal matters, finance, and other business issues. The award-winning program celebrates the heritage of a company that succeeded against all odds, and it enables Boston Beer to continue to champion the "little guy." Cause Consulting partnered Boston Beer with ACCION USA, the nation's leading non-profit micro-lender, to create the Samuel Adams Microloan Fund and financial literacy seminar series specifically for food & beverage entrepreneurs. This fund provides hundreds of entrepreneurs with access capital to build their dreams. As loans are repaid, new loans will be made to other entrepreneurs. Through this program the company has helped create hundreds of local jobs, galvanized a community among small food & beverage businesses, and created opportunities for networking and partnerships for people who otherwise would not have the ability to do so. With a consistent focus on raising visibility and awareness of the unique struggles facing “Main Street USA” businesses, Boston Beer has launched a new American revolution to support microentrepreneurs.
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