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Strategic corporate philanthropy can boost a company’s profits, but the most compelling gains cannot be measured in dollars.

By inspiring companies to extend their vision beyond their balance sheet and find their emotional profit center, ORENDA helps people find the satisfaction of working for more than a paycheck and knowing that they truly are capable of changing their community- and the world.

When companies and charities partner with ORENDA, amazing things can happen.

Companies can become

  • Places people want to work, attracting and retaining great talent
  • Organizations people want to do business with, building customer loyalty and sales
  • Better corporate citizens, extending a companies values into action that makes a real difference

Employees can experience

  • The excitement of working for a purpose- not just a paycheck
  • Extraordinary teambuilding and leadership development opportunities
  • Enhanced relationships with coworkers and the community
  • Life changing adventures and unexpected rewards

Charities can develop

  • More and better long term funding programs, empowering them to do more social change work
  • A higher profile, allowing for exponential growth beyond the partnership
 
 
  The Buzz  
     
 

“Don’t think this is some kind of charitable thing where you will get rewarded in heaven. You get rewarded right away because you’ll be known as a company that is conscious of its social responsibility; you’ll attract better quality employees; your stock will sell at a higher multiple, and all sorts of good things will come of it.”

  

John Whitehead
Former Chairman of Goldman Sachs
The Collaboration Challenge- James Austin
 
 
     
 

“Do socially responsible companies perform better financially? The answer has long been the statistical Holy Grail- eagerly sought, ever out of reach. I’m here to announce that search is over. The evidence is in. This is the finding of two meta studies- 30 years and 112 studies later, it’s been proven. Corporate Social Responsibility does go hand in hand with financial out-performance.”

  

Marjorie Kelly
Editor and Publisher- Business Ethics, winter 2004
 
 
     
 

“ People are looking for hope and engagement. Hope that things can be better, for them and for the world, and engagement in some way in making things better. A “cause” that is relevant to the business has the potential to be binding and animating, creating an alignment between the company and the employees.”

  

Mark Sarner
President- Manifest Communications
 
 
     
 

“When corporations support the right causes in the right ways – when they get the where and the how right- they set in motion a virtuous cycle... both the corporations and the causes they support reap important benefits.”

  

Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
Harvard Business Review- December 2002