Global Engagement Forum:Online

The PYXERA Global Engagement Forum chronicles the stories, strategies, and impact of innovative leadership and tri-sector collaboration around the world. This platform seeks to capture the ground-level impact of these approaches, providing an avenue through which beneficiaries and implementers alike can showcase their impact. Through stories, case-studies, and convenings, the Global Engagement Forum aims to elevate the ways in which individuals, corporations, and social enterprises champion a better future for our world.

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Social Impact & Volunteering

Mentoring for Youth Entrepreneurship in Latin America
Finding quality jobs for young people in Latin America, especially jobs outside of the informal sector that provide fair wages and just working conditions, is a growing socioeconomic concern. The United Nations reports that Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing the largest youth population in history with one in five people between the ages of 15-24. The unemployment rate for this age group is three times higher than for people between the ages of 30-64. For many young people, entrepreneurship has become a survival strategy, demonstrated by the fact that small businesses employ 67 percent of the workforce. However, 90 percent of these small businesses fail within the first two years.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Lipman Family Prize
What happens when you locate a global social impact prize at a top-tier business school nested within a world-class research university? Over the past several years, we have been exploring exactly that question.

Health & Healthcare

Preventing the Preventable and Treating the Treatable
The start of a new year often conjures up hopes of a new you – losing extra pounds, stopping that unhealthy habit, or making changes to enrich life overall. In fact, many of us are already trying to prevent bad health and create solutions for the solvable in ourselves.

Education

Preparing Youth for the Future of Work
Over the past few evenings, I’ve been escaping from the news of the day by reading some science fiction. Or at least I thought my choice was science fiction. The book, Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford, describes how automation threatens jobs and industries not in the distant future, but in the coming decades. Ford points out that while advanced technologies and automation have the potential to improve our lives by offering driverless cars, digital finance, and data-driven medical diagnoses, these advances also threaten jobs and industries.

Events, Media & Communications

The Power of the Individual
Have you heard of Sybil?

In 1777, in the dark of night, a sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington mounted her horse, Star, and raced furiously across forty miles of rocky terrain to warn her community of an imminent threat.
It was the time of the Revolutionary War when British citizens were fighting tooth and nail for the place I now call home—the United States of America. Sybil, the age of a high schooler, travelled a distance significantly farther than that of Paul Revere to alert militia forces of the British army’s approach.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Lessons from GSK
GSK is a renowned leader in the pharmaceutical industry, recently recognized for leading the corporate world toward embracing the ethos of creating shared value. The company sits atop Fortune’s Change the World list of businesses directly confronting society’s biggest challenges. This is a title that does not come solely from good intentions, but rather from proactively using its position in the global community as a force for good.

Events, Media & Communications

The Purpose Imperative: Integrating for Sustainable Impact
The three “Ps” of sustainability—People, Planet, and Profit (or Prosperity—which engenders more inclusivity)—have become the standard for leading companies for a decade or more. Aaron Hurst has just added a fourth “P:” Purpose.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Service: Not Just for Lawyers Anymore!
Did you know that pro bono service is the fastest growing domestic volunteer program among leading global companies in the last three years? According to CECP’s report on trends in corporate societal engagement, Giving in Numbers: 2016 Edition, the percentage of companies offering pro bono services in the US increased from 43% in 2013 to 54% in 2015. What’s more, CECP’s report on international corporate giving – Giving Around the Globe – also found an uptick in this skills-based volunteering practice with global companies reporting a rise in pro bono opportunities from 17% to 24%.

Events, Media & Communications

Harnessing the Power of Youth: Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit
Teenagers everywhere have attitude.

This was the initial thought that crossed my mind as I approached this year’s Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit, the tenth annual conference presented by Making Cents International. However, these thoughts were quickly replaced by the acknowledgement that youth are more than the promise of the future. They are powerful individuals. Indeed, they are a force, and it is our collective challenge to ensure that they are a force for good.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Week in the Life of a Global Pro Bono Champion #PBW16
Checkout highlights here from the final week of the Global Health Corporate Champions, a dynamic group of eight professionals that spent four weeks working to improve the quality of public health in Accra, Ghana this past June. The initiative engaged employees from The Dow Chemical Company, PIMCO, and PwC to contribute their expertise to improve the operational strategy of three social sector health organizations. Drawing from their collective knowledge in management, product sustainability, operations, and finance, the GHCC participants focused on projects designed to increase access to quality healthcare for communities throughout the region.
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