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Boosting economic empowerment for women and rural farmers
This important joint Deloitte Oxfam initiative aims to improve the lives of farmers and rural communities in Sri Lanka through various initiatives such as increasing female economic participation and empowerment, increasing producer income and crop yield, and negotiating fair prices for their produce.
Location
Sri Lanka
Charity
Impact
Improve income & skills for 930+ lives
Get in touch
Jon Ma
Partner, Deloitte Consulting
Bridging the education gap: Deloitte Mexico
Currently in Mexico, many impoverished communities see young people seek work rather than continuing to pursue their education. Deloitte Mexico has developed a scholarship program to help combat this problem. The program provides students from low socioeconomic backgrounds access to a university education to reach their full potential.
Location
Mexico
Charity
Impact
Enabling access to university education
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Overcoming structural disadvantage
In 2018, Deloitte Australia made Many Rivers a National Community Partner to help them in creating access to economic opportunities for people from disadvantaged contexts. Our support for Many Rivers currently involves an annual donation, mentoring of aspiring business owners as well as pro bono support including an annual evaluation of its performance.
Location
Australia
Charity
Impact
Improving social and economic outcomes
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Ongoing gratitude: Bhavita Patel ANU Scholarship recipient
The Bhavita Patel Undergraduate Scholarship, established in honour of our late colleague, recognises and rewards academic excellence by enabling high potential students experiencing financial disadvantage to attend ANU. The scholarship's first recipient, Melora Stokes, has just completed her second year at university, and vacationer internship at Deloitte Canberra.
Location
Australia
Charity
Impact
Enabling access to university education
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
RightStep™ empowers future leaders in the US
Through RightStep, Deloitte’s strategy to address education needs across America, we are committing time, talent, and resources to help students overcome obstacles to prepare for and persist through high school and college, then transition to a career.
Location
United States
Charity
Impact
Impacts 500,000 students over 3 years
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Our biggest Impact Day ever
In 2019, more than 5,000 of our people spent Deloitte's day of volunteering at one of 500 charitable events making Impact Day 2019 our biggest Impact Day ever. From building professional development for student members of the LGBTIQ community to providing vital strategy work for many health and social service charities, our collective impact in our communities was immense.
Location
Australia
Charity
Impact
5000 volunteers, 500 charities
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Courageous Principals: Building exceptional school leaders
Evidence-based research tells us that highly effective school leaders attract, retain and grow high performing teachers, who have a disproportionately positive impact on student outcomes. Deloitte's award-winning school leadership development program, Courageous Principals, aims to create exceptional leaders in education and ultimately, enhance student outcomes.
Location
Australia
Charity
Impact
Impacted 100 school leaders
Get in touch
Kate McDonald
Dean, Courageous Principals Australia; Partner, Consulting
courageousaustralia@deloitte.com.au
Building the next generation of tech talent
Developing digital skills can help drive social mobility. Deloitte UK has been helping Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, tackle the digital skills gap in the UK and lay the foundations for a new type of education institution that prepares young people, especially young women and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to succeed in their careers and lives.
Location
United Kingdom
Charity
Impact
Educate 2,500 students by 2021
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Helping Canadian students build businesses
Together with JA Canada, the nation's largest provider of youth business education programs, Deloitte Canada is inspiring students to understand their potential, and succeed at school and in business. Deloitte volunteers run weekly workshops with students of the JA Company Program, enabling young people from all walks of life start a business and learn entrepreneurial skills.
Location
Canada
Charity
Impact
Educate 2,500 students by 2021
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Teaching the children of PNG to read and write their way to a better future
The challenge of low literacy levels is close to the hearts of the people of Deloitte Papua New Guinea. Since 2015, we have been working with the charity Buk bilong Pikinini, providing books, kindles, computers and pro bono support to give schoolchildren a fighting chance in a young nation challenged by high levels of poverty and crime.
Location
Papua New Guinea
Charity
Impact
Impacted 23,008 children
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Lifting Indonesian seaweed farmers out of poverty
The global seaweed industry is booming but many seaweed farmers remain in poverty. Indonesia produces 50% of the prized red seaweed market with 18% of the world’s crop from South Sulawesi. Much of the industry’s value is captured by global intermediaries. A Deloitte Australia/Indonesia pro bono project for Oxfam helped thousands of seaweed farming families get a better deal.
Location
South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Charity
Impact
Improved up to 8,400 lives
Get in touch
Gerry Wilde
Director, Responsible Business and The Deloitte Foundation
Co-creating opportunities with Indigenous tertiary students
In 2018, Deloitte Brisbane and the Oodgeroo unit of the Queensland University of Technology embarked on a trailblazing, paid internship pilot program for Indigenous students. The six month program enabled four proud Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to gain career-forming professional experience in a top tier professional environment.
Location
Queensland, Australia
Charity
Impact
4 Indigenous internships
Get in touch
Sam Sheppard
Chief Human Resources Officer
As at June 2020, Deloitte Australia has made a positive impact on 183,466 lives by applying our core skills, experience, and global reach.
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