267. The Rise of Corporate Social Impact + How Nonprofit Missions Can Meet the Moment - Olivia Khalili
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits
We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits
267. The Rise of Corporate Social Impact + How Nonprofit Missions Can Meet the Moment - Olivia Khalili
May 09, 2022 Season 5
We Are For Good

Meet Olivia. She's been on a lifelong quest to create community-based workplace cultures that fuel good while helping the bottom line. And now that company PagerDuty, a real-time impact response platform, is driving the effort of societal benefits through business and its employees. As social impact and philanthropy are becoming more important in attracting top talent, Olivia explains how connecting social impact to success is game-changing.

💡Learn:

  • Shifting & redistributing power: centering partnership models and programs around equity and trust-based/participatory philanthropy practices
  • PagerDuty's approach to social impact
  • Current landscape of social impact right now + how can people formulate that business case

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Olivia’s story and journey to where she is today (3:30)
  • Overview of PagerDuty and their social impact initiatives (13:00)
  • Shifting our mindset around social impact (15:00)
  • Key indicators of when a company is ready to implement a social impact program (21:00)
  • The current landscape of social impact + how can people formulate that business case (26:00)
  • Focusing on deeper partnerships and unrestricted capital vs. transactional gifts and event sponsorships (31:00)
  • What an ideal partnership looks like (39:00)
  • A powerful moment of philanthropy in Olivia’s life (43:00)
  • Olivia’s One Good Thing: Lead with your full selves, your voice, your values, and lift up others. (46:00)

For more information and episode details visit: weareforgood.com/episode/267

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