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Friday, November 21, 2008
Tech Citizenship
Accenture provides skills, funds
By Mass High Tech Staff
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While the Boston operation of IT consulting giant Accenture Ltd. has certainly shared plenty of its revenue with charities in New England and around the globe, it is equally focused on helping its employees give back individually.
To that end, the company has a number of initiatives, including its Skills Based Volunteering program, in which Accenture employees donate their time and expertise to help nonprofits develop the strategies, implement the technologies, and create the operational structure they need to succeed. Accenture helps employees participate in Skills Based Volunteering programs and other programs in a number of ways, said Andre P. Hughes, Accenture’s managing director of U.S. human capital and diversity.
“We invite our employees — and family members and friends — to participate by sending out internal communications via e-mail and officewide newsletters,” Hughes said.
As a global company, Accenture reaches around the world with its charity efforts. Much of that stems from its Accenture Development Partnerships group, which offers its services at a reduced rate to nonprofits working with developing economies. Employees volunteer to participate, as the usual run of such an engagement is three to six months, and can be in places as far-flung as Vietnam and the Balkans.
But Accenture pays close attention to the charities in the city of Boston as well.
“In Boston we have a dozen or more nonprofits that we volunteer with annually,” Hughes said, “including the Greater Boston Food Bank, Pine Street Inn and the Museum of Science.”
Citizenship Facts
Accenture Ltd.
Total cash contributions in New England in 2007: $704,256
Number of volunteer hours in New England in 2007: 4,155
In-kind contributions of equipment and services in New England in 2007: $110,000
Principal recipients of charitable activities in 2007: Accenture’s key nonprofit partners include Junior Achievement, Points of Light/Hands on Network, NPower and Aidmatrix. It provides volunteer and pro bono time, as well as cash giving from Accenture, its people, and the Accenture Foundation.
Interesting philanthropic activities: In Skills Based Volunteering, Accenture people give their time to help nonprofits develop the strategy, technology and operational structure they need. Accenture Development Partnerships is a nonprofit group within Accenture that makes consulting services available at reduced costs to organizations working with developing economies.
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