Sage Foundation
Fireside chat with Debbie Wall EVP, the Sage Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations globally. It is the corporate philanthropic division of Sage – the UK’s largest tech firm with 12,000 employees serving over three million customers across 23 countries worldwide. Debbie is championing an approach called ‘action philanthropy’ – which is based on corporations maximizing their ‘people capital’ and empowering employees to support their local communities to have the greatest possible social impact. Learn more about Oracle for Startups https://www.oracle.com/startup/
Startup Grind · @Chris Joannou, Chris Joannou, Debbie Wall
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Sage Group plc. is the UK’s largest tech firm with 12,000 employees serving over three million customers across 23 countries worldwide.
Debbie Wall is the EVP of the Sage Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations globally. It is the corporate philanthropic division of Sage . It is the corporate philanthropic division of Sage Group.
Debbie"s approach called ‘action philanthropy’ is a model based not only on corporate financial giving but focused on making a more meaningful impact through employee time and expertise.
As part of this approach, Debbie introduced the UK’s largest corporate volunteering scheme, offering every Sage employee up to 5 days of paid time to volunteer in their local communities. In 2020 alone, they have given 14,000 volunteering days from colleagues around the world. Debbie would be happy to talk about some of the programmes introduced and executed by the Sage Foundation to help local communities worldwide. These are based on maximising the tech skills of their employees to help rollout solutions including A Place To Call Home - helping tackle the root causes of youth homelessness and rAInbow - an AI-powered tool supporting victims of domestic violence.
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(Interviewed by Chris Joannou @DREAMPUSHERS).