Aligning with Corporate Allies to Achieve SDGs
Should nonprofits target Sustainable Development Goals?
SDGs are driving corporate decision-making around the globe, and even in South Carolina.
What are the 17 SDGs and should they be driving nonprofit decision-making?
Who better to hear from than two of our own?
Pam Martin leads RISE, a United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development located at Coastal Carolina University, working in Georgetown and other communities in South Carolina to assist local governments, community organizations, and businesses in using and measuring sustainable development goals.
She will also share how a collaboration of coastal funders are beginning to use SDGs to measure and guide their grantmaking.
Ethel Bunch, with Sustain SC, is working to elevate South Carolina's global competitiveness ranking and advance our State's economic development efforts using the SDGs.
They will help us understand the history and significance of "SDGs" (Sustainable Development Goals) and how community-minded corporations focus on these 17 goals.
They'll share how their nonprofits are each using SDGs to align efforts with corporate partners and focus their work.
SPOILER ALERT!
This great session, just got even better. Melissa Furr, Social Responsibility Manager with Blackbaud will now join us to share how Blackbaud has incorporated SDGs in their strategic focus and how they use them to guide their charitable giving.
Melissa believes that volunteerism and philanthropic giving are essential to the wellbeing of any community and that everyone can play a part. She spent six years in municipal government serving the Latinx community and has dedicated seven years in the nonprofit sector engaging board members, donors, and volunteers through skilled-based service opportunities and grant-making. She brings a diversity of experience in the nonprofit, government, and higher education sectors to her current role at Blackbaud. In her current role, she is responsible for daily management of the company’s corporate giving and a portfolio of programs designed to engage employees as agents of good including global grant programs and an extensive focus on volunteerism.
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Attendees (63)
Nate Barber
CEO
SC Community Loan Fund
LaTonya Boyd
Executive Director
Chester County First Steps
Amy Breault
Executive Director
Horry County First Steps
Rosemarie Clarke
Executive Director
Revival Ministry Inc.
Claudia Cohen
Director
Pee Dee Community Project
Chelsi Conaway
Marketing and Communications Manager
The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William
Jamie Cooper
CEO
CIS of South Carolina
Susan Crooks
President
Walt's Waltz
Leah Crosby
Operational Specialist - HR Generalist - Trainer
Charleston County First Steps
Mike Darrow
Executive Director
Feeding the Carolinas
Susan DeVenny
CEO
Arras Foundation
Winn Fitzgerald
Executive Vice President
Lions Vision Services
A'Netra Hardy
Regional Outreach Paralegal
SC Legal Services
Kathryn Harvey
Founder
Neue South Collective
Sally Ingles
Communications Director
SC Legal Services
JoAnn Johnson
Faith-Based Giving Manager
Harvest Hope Food Bank
Alana Jordan
Development & Marketing Director
Together SC
Tamara Joseph
President
Transgender Awareness Alliance
Nancy Landerman
Executive Director
The Haven Men's Shelter
Maura Langston
Director of Sales
Turn90
Amy Larkin
Managing Finance Director
National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA)
Sally McClellan
Executive Director
SC Association for the Education of Young Children
Madeleine McGee
President/CEO
Together SC
Viktoria McKenna
Development Director
Ezekiel Ministries
Darlene Paradise
Director of Development
Dickerson Children's Advocacy Center
Daniel Prohaska
President & CEO
Lions Vision Services
Catherine Puckett
Program Director
Greater Good Greenville
Brooke Robertson
Director of Marketing & Communications
Neue South Collective
Caroline T. Robertson
Executive Director
Greer Relief and Resources Agency, Inc.
Luanne Rodgers
Chief Philanthropy and Mission Advancement Officer
Windwood Family Services
Alexandria Russell
Development Manager
Charleston Legal Access
Justina Siuba
Project Director
South Carolina First Steps
Meg Stanley
Executive Director
Wholespire
Terri Towle
Director of Fund Development
Leeza's Care Connection
Brett Wadford
Chief Partnerships Officer
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
Desmonies White
Events & Program Manager
Together SC
Amelia Wilks
Community Relations Coordinator
Children's Trust of SC
Keith Willoughby
Executive Director
Environmental Education Association of South Carolina, Inc.
Pamela Martin, Ph.D., Executive Director, RISE
Ethel Bunch, President & CEO, Sustain SC
Melissa Furr, Global Social Responsibility Manager, Blackbaud
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