Charities@Work Announces Live Twitter Chat, #DriveChange, with Time Warner Cable and Wells Fargo

Washington, D.C., March 10, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Charities@Work today announced a Twitter chat and webinar in support of its Employee Engagement Best Practices Summit, “Bridging Worlds to Scale Impact.” Held on March 28-30, 2016, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City, the Summit brings CSR practitioners across the country together to share the latest advances and thinking on employee engagement, workplace giving and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice.

Charities@Work Twitter Chat: #DriveChange

Let’s face it: to live in a better world, we have to act better. While a vision is often the starting point, it’s rarely enough to change behaviors or encourage good deeds. And what if you’re the only one who believes in doing well by doing good?

Join the live Twitter chat on Thursday, March 17, 2016, from 3:00 - 3:45 pm ET, and learn how to #DriveChange in your company through employee engagement, volunteerism and corporate social responsibility. Milinda Martin, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship at Time Warner Cable, and Peter Dudley, SVP of Community Support Programs at Wells Fargo—two iconic organizations in the CSR space—will join moderator Aman Singh, VP of Business + Social Purpose at Edelman, as she dives into questions such as:

• Why do they continue to invest in employee volunteerism?
• Should volunteerism be mandatory?
• Should employees be able to record independent volunteering in their companies’ tallies? Is that fair? What IS fair?
• Why do some companies choose to present externally created opportunities for their employees while others don’t?
• Why are some companies transparent about their activities, while others aren’t?
• Do methodically produced charts in annual CSR reports lead to better metrics? Better behavior?  

Tips to get the most from #DriveChange:

• Follow the main participants and #DriveChange hashtag.
  
  • Participating Twitter handles include @CharitiesAtWork, @MilindaMartin, @TWC, @dudleypj, @WellsFargo, @amansinghcsr and @EdelmanPurpose.
• Submit questions before the event to promote a more dynamic discussion.
• Use the #DriveChange hashtag on comments that you want to share with the community.
• Share tweets you think your followers will appreciate.
• Follow interesting participants during and after the chat.

Bring your questions and your lunch. If you cannot join us live on Twitter, consider joining one of the many dialogues during Charities@Work’s 2016 Annual Summit.

Charities@Work Webinar: Pro Bono Volunteerism

Join us Tuesday, April 12, at 1:00 PM ET, for a free webinar titled “Pro Bono Volunteerism: Challenges and Solutions.” Pro bono volunteerism is hot with companies of all sizes trying to offer skills-based and pro bono volunteer opportunities to their employees. Although the popularity of this type of volunteerism has risen, the number of available opportunities has not. What is causing this imbalance and how can companies address this growing discrepancy?

Join us and listen to Dr. Linda Gornitsky of LBG Associates share the results of her latest research study, which examines the challenges of pro bono volunteerism and suggests solutions to help fix this imbalance. Register here: http://bit.ly/1VA9Xzr

About Charities@Work Best Practices Summit

The detailed agenda for 15th Annual Best Practices Summit on Employee Engagement in Corporate Citizenship can be found here. A new feature of this year’s agenda is the “Next Great Ideas” segment, a snapshot of innovative ideas being developed and repurposed for use in employee engagement and CSR. The nation’s top thought leaders and experts across employee engagement, workplace giving and CSR, are presenting at the Best Practices Summit. Read recent articles from a handful of our speakers to get a better idea of the content we’ll be addressing at the Summit:

• How to Leverage Health Nonprofits in Your Wellness Strategy, Jonathan Edelheit, Editor-in-Chief; Corporate Wellness Magazine; Board of Directors, Corporate Health & Wellness Association
• Corporate Engagement’s Critical Role in the Success of the SDGs, Scott Jackson, Global Impact
• Making Employee Volunteers Matter, Jim Starr, America’s Charities

Charities@Work Sponsors and Technology Partners

Charities@Work is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors and technology partners. Charities@Work extends its gratitude to Underwriter Sponsors – Time Warner Cable and Wells Fargo; Cornerstone Sponsor – Prudential; Benefactor Sponsors – Best Buy, New York Life, PricewaterhouseCoopers, UnitedHealth Group; Patron Sponsors – PIMCO Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation; In-Kind Sponsors – 3BL Media, COMMIT!Forum, and RealizedWorth; Showcase Technology Partner – MicroEdge; and Standard Technology Partners – Benevity, DoTopia, GIVINGtrax, Good Done Great, Innovations for Learning, INPEx, JK Group, VolunteerMatch, YouGiveGoods, and YourCause. The 2016 Charities@Work Annual Summit is an official conference of Impact 2030.

Read recent articles from sponsors:

• Five Truths about Running an Online Auction, Peter Dudley, Wells Fargo
• The Boy Who Was My Cause Made YourCause, Matt Combs, YourCause
• From Detroit to Burma: The Story of a Clean Birth Kit, Earl Bridges, Good Done Great
• Engaging in the Moment: Leveraging Technology for Good, Andrew Troup, MicroEdge
• Culture Still Eats Strategy for Breakfast, and It’s Not as Hard to Shape as You Think, Bryan de Lottinville, Benevity

Opportunities to invest in Charities@Work are still available. For information about sponsorship and technology partner opportunities, please contact Lynne Filderman at lfilderman@charities.org.

To find out more information about this year’s Charities@Work Best Practices Summit, visit http://charitiesatwork.org/annual-summit/2016-2/. 

About Charities@Work

Charities@Work, www.charitiesatwork.org, bridges the corporate and nonprofit sectors in order to achieve greater social impact. Charities@Work is an alliance of four nonprofit organizations – America’s Charities, Community Health Charities, EarthShare and Global Impact – that collectively represent more than 2,500 of the most respected and effective international, national and local nonprofits. These four networks exist to facilitate interaction and partnerships between charities, companies and their employees for meaningful outcomes and impact for all parties.