Partners

The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is a membership-based research organization associated with the Carroll School of Management. It is committed to helping business leverage its social, economic and human assets to ensure both its success and a more just and sustainable world. As a leading resource on corporate citizenship, the Center works with global corporations to help them define, plan, and operationalize their corporate citizenship. Through the power of research, executive education, and the insights of its 350 corporate members, the Center creates knowledge, value, and demand for corporate citizenship.

www.BCCorporateCitizenship.org

Paul Newman and Ken Derr are the founding co-chairs of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), the only international forum of CEOs exclusively focused on corporate philanthropy. CECP's mission is to lead the business community in raising the level and quality of corporate philanthropy. Engaging with the public, private, and independent sectors, CECP's 175 members seek and create opportunities to help advance the case for philanthropy and inspire other business leaders to make a lasting commitment to community giving. www.CorporatePhilanthropy.org.

Communications4Good is a public relations/branding agency that creates expert communications as part of the solution to global economic, environmental and social challenges. We work with early stage and legacy companies, who share common ground, in developing their sustainable brand promise.  We start by identifying the "head and heart" story that inspires every product design, each company formation in order to communicate authentically to key stakeholders. This intertwined rationale becomes the goodness narrative that underpins authentic positioning. We recommend strategic direction, develop go-to-market communications plans, launch companies, create industry categories, develop brand positioning messaging and elevator pitches, create and implement social media campaigns, execute media relations and outreach, identify and leverage partner relationships, build awareness, maintain product momentum, and engage communities through extensive outreach programs. Find out more at www.communications4good.com/

Whether communicating with customers, partners, media influencers, employees or colleagues, speaking with a fresh and meaningful voice is key. Creekside Communications has been helping new and established technology companies successfully guide the flow of their business communications with a clear voice for more than two decades.

While crafting compelling messages, telling industry-leading stories, and engaging in thought-provoking conversations are critical, we know that these activities must be part of a larger communications strategy that supports a company's business and marketing objectives. That's why no matter what story we are helping advance, the Creekside team makes sure that we first collaborate to uncover the whole story so that our clients' business communications flow steadily upstream.

For more information, visit www.creekside-communications.com.

CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility news, reports and information.  CSRwire members are companies, NGOs, and organizations interested in communicating their sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience.  CSRwire content covers Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing, Environment, Human Rights, Workplace Issues, Business Ethics, Community Development and Corporate Governance.
www.csrwire.com

ExpertCEO is a private on-line community where senior executives can confidentially exchange ideas with peers, locate trusted resources, ask questions of experts across a range of disciplines and quickly solve real-world business problems. ExpertCEO applies social networking technology to enable CEOs to solve real-world business issues. Please visit www.expertceo.com to learn more.

HandsOn Bay Area (HOBA) creates opportunities for people to volunteer, learn and lead in their communities. We strive to provide volunteers with a high-quality experience that fuels further action, HOBA staff works with local nonprofits, schools and parks to identify high-impact, group-based volunteer projects. Volunteers are then recruited to get the job done as each project is led by a trained Project Leader to ensure that both the community partner and the volunteers are satisfied with the work. Throughout the month, we manage and lead 120 direct-service projects and offer educational programming to help volunteers become well-informed community leaders.

For corporate clients, we offer comprehensive planning services for employee volunteer events. We work with companies to further their corporate social responsibility goals by engaging their employees in hands-on service.

Every year, our volunteer projects provide more than 65,000 hours of free service to more than 200 nonprofits across the Bay Area. HandsOn Bay Area is an affiliate of HandsOn Network & the Points of Light Institute, an international alliance of innovative volunteer management organizations.  www.hoba.org

At Jones PR, we believe our job is to help our clients win. Our senior strategists are focused on helping develop creative PR and social media programs that correlate to business outcomes. More importantly, we don't just say we had a successful campaign — we prove it. And then, we package the results so you can present your executive team and key stakeholders with the ROI for your PR program. Additionally, we believe experience matters. With Jones PR, you can expect to receive hands-on strategy and execution from our senior team members. In fact, we don't employ junior staff members. Each and every team member is required to have a minimum of 10 years experience; with Jones PR, there's no risk of a bait and switch. Visit www.jonespr.net/ to learn more.

The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We provide a forum for entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst dynamic market risks and challenges. In a world where markets change at breakneck speed, knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage. Our forums provide an excellent opportunity to network and learn about pivotal business issues, emerging industries and the latest technologies.  www.vlab.org

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) seeks to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the U.S. economy, and support entrepreneurial activity and innovation. The NVCA represents the public policy interests of the venture capital community, strives to maintain high professional standards, provides reliable industry data, sponsors professional development, and facilitates interaction among its members. Additional information about the NVCA can be found at www.nvca.org.

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 144 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders. The depth of our industry expertise, like our international perspective, is an attribute that our clients value. We invest significant resources in building and sharing such expertise. As a result, the people of the Technology Industry Practice have the scope, depth and expertise to advise technology companies on the changes facing their business.

The Technology industries — semiconductors, software, life sciences, computers and networking and the investors that fuel them — profoundly influence our lives. Though the sector has matured over the past 25 years, technology companies wrestle with constant challenges. Access to capital, faster time-to-market, and finding and keeping the right talent is more critical than ever. So is managing stakeholder and financial market expectations. Likewise, convergence — now a common theme running through all technology industries — brings new and fundamental challenges to industry players.

Salesforce.com is the leading provider of CRM applications and cloud computing solutions for large enterprises, SMBs, and nonprofits. Salesforce CRM has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com cloud computing platform enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications.

Salesforce.com Foundation helps nonprofit organizations further their mission through 1% volunteerism, 1% equity, and 1% CRM product donations. Salesforce CRM allows nonprofits to automate business processes, streamline donor contact management, increase efficiency and scale for growth, enabling nonprofits to focus on social action. Find out more at www.salesforce.com

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a catalyst and leader for innovative solutions to our region's most challenging problems. Serving all of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, the community foundation has more than $1.9 billion in assets under management and 1,500 philanthropic funds. The community foundation provides grants through donor advised and corporate funds in addition to its own Community Endowment Fund.  In addition, the community foundation serves as a regional center for philanthropy, providing donors simple and effective ways to give locally and around the world. Silicon Valley Community Foundation launched in January 2007 following the landmark merger of Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Peninsula Community Foundation and is now one of the largest community foundations in the nation. Find out more at www.siliconvalleycf.org

For 25 years, SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, have been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. SVB Financial Group is a financial holding company that serves companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries. Offering diversified financial services through Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, SVB Financial Group provides clients with commercial, investment, international and private banking services. The company also offers funds management, broker-dealer transactions, asset management and a full range of services for private equity companies, as well as the added value of its knowledge and networks worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., SVB Financial Group operates through 28 offices in the U.S. and five internationally in China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom. More information on the company can be found at www.svb.com.

Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve. SVB Private Client Services is a division of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve.

The Kauffman Fellows Program identifies, develops, and networks emerging global leaders in venture capital. Working full-time at a venture capital firm, Kauffman Fellows engage over 24-months in a practical apprenticeship of professional coaching, mentoring by senior partners, and quarterly sessions of industry and leadership curriculum. As ongoing participants in the Society of Kauffman Fellows throughout their careers, fellows benefit from a trusted network -- in Silicon Valley and around the world -- that includes fellows, faculty, mentors, and partners alike. Insights are shared and resources are made available, opportunities are efficiently vetted and syndicated. The result is enhanced returns to venture fund investors. Based in Palo Alto, California, the Kauffman Fellows Program is administered by the Center for Venture Education, a 501(c)(3) post-graduate educational institution dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship throughout society. Inspired by Ewing Marion Kauffman's legacy of promoting "economically independent individuals who are engaged and contributing citizens," Kauffman Fellows to date have made $4 billion in venture capital investments, sparking growth in 400 new enterprises, $12 billion in annually recurring revenues, and the creation of 42,000 jobs. Visit www.kfp.org to learn more.

BCLC is a 501(c)3 affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and manages the U.S. Chamber's Disaster Assistance and Recovery program and serves as a resource and voice for businesses and their social and philanthropic interests. The U.S. Chamber is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million business and organizations of every size, sector, and region.  www.uschamber.com/bclc