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

About Our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you SEE and activate donors at every level. Here’s the thing, Virtuous created a fundraising platform to help you do just that. It’s much more than a nonprofit CRM. Virtuous is committed to helping charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising. We love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement.

Learn more about Virtuous at www.virtuous.org/

About Our Sponsor Feathr
Are you ready to take your digital engagement to the next level but feel stuck about where to start? Feathr is focused on making nonprofit outreach more impactful by connecting you to your audience - wherever they are online. Feathr offers great training, support, and campaign recipes based on goals specific to nonprofits. From fundraising to program awareness, they’

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