The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility - employee volunteering. Cross-sector initiatives to accelerate social innovation. A presentation of Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne.

1. The Future of CSR EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

2. What is CSR really about? “Leaders in every single institution and in every single sector ... have two responsibilities. They are responsible and accountable for the performance of their institutions, and that requires them and their institutions to be concentrated, focused, limited. They are responsible also, however, for the community as a whole.“ Peter Drucker Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

4. COMMENSALISM

5. PARASITISMSocial Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

6. YouTube clip from IBM CSC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-IFnHbQUAk Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011 “IBM Corporate Service Corps was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. The program empowers IBM employees as global citizens by sending groups of 10 – 15 individuals from different countries with a range of skills to an emerging market for four week community-based assignments. During the assignment, participants perform community-driven economic development projects working at the intersection of business, technology, and society.”

8. IBMers receive leadership training and development

9. IBM develops a new generation of global leaders.Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

10. Benfits on three levels Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

11. How does the community benefit? Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

12. How does an organisation benefit? The business case for corporate volunteering: #1: Creates Employee Engagement #2: Attracts Better Talent #3: Is Employee Development #4: Offers A Competitive Advantage #5: Increased Corporate Intelligence #6: Reduces Health Care Costs #7: Increases Value Generation Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

13. How do participants benefit on a personal level? Skill set increased New experiences Work with your passion Opens mind Meta-perspective Creative thinking Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

14. What are the challenges for the teams? Risk taking Foreign environment Different and diverse team Scarce resources CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, COLLABORATIVE THINKING Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

15. What do we do? TASK FORCE Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

16. What do we do? We help organisations to develop innovative, creative staff by placing their employees outside the organisation to do things for the greater social good. We put together cross-disciplinary task forces of volunteers who solve social / environmental problems with innovative thinking. Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

17. What do we do differently from other corporate volunteering organisations? Our approach is cross-disciplinary – the diversity of participants lead to a broader approach to the problem solving. We use the principles of social entrepreneurship, i.e. innovative solutions to solving social problems. The volunteer work involved is more entrepreneurial than organisational. It is not the organisation, which seeks the volunteers, that decides what the volunteer does, but the organisation together with the volunteers. Stakeholders co-create their future. Our volunteers gain skills in creative and complex problem solving, entrepreneurial thinking and how to take a meta-perspectives on issues. That is, the educational aspect of the voluntary work is much stronger. You give more and you get more than in normal corporate volunteering. Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

18. Cross-sector initiatives Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

19. Our portfolio of projects We have teamed up with a number of not-for-profits and community organisations. Or you could bring your own project... Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

20. The Learning Lab Program ’Teachings’ (Coursework) Case-In-Point Leadership Syndicates Action Learning Project Stream Individual Coaching/Mentoring Support Online Learning Exchange Six Minute Stories Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

21. The Teams Culturally diverse Cross-disciplinary An integral approach to forming teams Create a social enterprise on day 1 Bettermeans platform Own ”shares” in their idea Responsible for output Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011

22. Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne http://sem.tsii.com.au/ Twitter: @socentmelb Social Entrepreneurs Melbourne 2011