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Inspiring Perspectives
Hosted by thinkPARALLAX · EN
Inspiring Perspectives is a sustainability and ESG podcast featuring fresh takes, bold ideas, practical application, and real-world sustainability challenges and solutions as told by sustainability leaders from a variety of industries who are doing the work.
Produced by the team of experts at the sustainability strategy and communications agency, thinkPARALLAX, Inspiring Perspectives gives you a sneak peek behind the sustainability scenes of some of the world’s most respected brands and companies.
Hosted by Derek Sabori, a Senior Director at thinkPARALLAX, new episodes featuring valuable takeaways drop every other week.
Visit the show at https://www.thinkparallax.com/podcast.
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Four pillars of purpose | A journey from Philanthropy to Social Impact
Aug 21, 202400:37:05Tap to summarizeSend us a textAimee Griffiths is the Head of Social Impact at MoneyGram, a global fintech company, providing money transfer and financial services around the world. During our conversation we discussed how MoneyGram’s business is all about remittances, which are a lifeline for over a billion people living on less than a dollar a day in low and middle-income countries, and also how the company's commitment to social impact and sustainability is at the heart of its strategy. Case in point: MoneyGram is focused on reducing remittance fees (in line with The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10) and ensuring the safety and protection of its customers, who in many cases, are their employees. Aimee has a unique perspective because she worked in the nonprofit space for years, helping to drive positive impact on people’s lives, and initially came to MoneyGram to run their foundation. She realized early on, however, that there was an opportunity to do more than just write a check and their Social Impact program was born.Here are some of the key takeaways from this episode:Your programs have the best chance for success when you make sustainability and/or social impact a true part of your business.MoneyGram's social impact program features four pillars of purpose: corporate citizenship, philanthropy, inclusion and belonging and employee engagement.There are things that you should just do because it's the right thing to do, but a strong social impact program goes beyond that (and even regulatory compliance) and does more to protect and improve the lives of stakeholders.Find the business case for your social impact program; a business case can be made for reputation, for brand, for customer relationships, and more. Align with great partners to strengthen your impact programs, and to amplify your impact.Be intentional when working with nonprofits; make sure you’re aligned.Give the nonprofits you work with a safe space to negotiate (and always send a donation with your volunteers :) The talent pool in this space is evolving - universities and colleges now offer social impact and/or philanthropy as a focus or a major, so people are coming into the job market with awareness and expertise.When building an impact program, move forward with intention and purpose, but be sure to always innovate, bring others along, and be decisive. Links associated with the conversation:Aimee Griffiths - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeegriffiths/ Social impact at MoneyGram - https://corporate.moneygram.com/social-impact/UNSDG 10 - https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal10 Stellar Development - https://stellar.org/foundationRedRose - Empowering the Humanitarian Sector - https://www.redrose.io/ UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency - https://www.unhcr.org/us/ Global Giving - Helping fellow nonprofits access the funding, tools, training, and support they need to serve their communities - https://www.globalgiving.org/ Save the Children - https://www.savethechildren.org/ Thanks for checking out our show! It was produced by our team of experts at thinkPARALLAX.Got a topic you’d like us to explore on the show? Get in touch with us at thinkparallax.com/podcast.
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A mid-year review | Insights from our Head of Sustainability
Aug 7, 202400:41:13Tap to summarizeSend us a textSheila Ongie, is our Head of Sustainability Strategy here at thinkPARALLAX and we thought this would be a good time, before we get too deep into the second half of 2024, to tap into her 15yrs of corporate sustainability experience to get a sense of what she’s seeing and hearing this year.In this episode we tackled a bunch of your corporate sustainability questions that are likely on your mind. We dove into topics like:How do you think clients are feeling about their sustainability programs/progress right now? What's stood out since the beginning of the year?What should practitioners keep an eye on as we head into the back half of the year?What’s the general mood in sustainability, CSR, and ESG?What's something you've seen this year that's making you optimistic? Is there anything that's got you down?What do you think sustainability pros are struggling with the most right now?What are you most excited about right now?For sustainability pros building next year's budget, what’s a “must include”?During the course of our 40 minute conversation, we uncovered Sheila’s thoughts on those topics and more. Sheila draws on her 15 years of experience in corporate sustainability in a brand, at a co-op, and at multiple sustainability consulting companies, nonprofits and industry groups to offer us a well-rounded perspective on what happened, what’s happening, and where we might be headed.Here are some links for topics that came up during our chat:Follow Sheila Ongie on LinkedInWRI State of Climate Action 2023 ReportTNFD (Task Force on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures)CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive)Convention on Biodiversity (COP16 Colombia)Produced by our team of experts at thinkPARALLAX.Intro/Outro music by QubeSounds from Pixabay.#inspiringperspectives #sustainability #CSR #ESG #impact #sustainabilityadvice #corporatesustainability #thinkparallax #community #careers #consutlting #agency #careeradvice #strategy #communications– Got a topic you’d like us to explore on the show? Get in touch with us at thinkparallax.com/podcast.
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