Webinar: Empowering Changemakers: Building Scalable, Employee-led Programs (2025)

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Webinar with Demi Wright from GitHub on how to build thriving global ambassador programs that center on passion, purpose, and storytelling - without burning out internal teams.

Webinar: Maximizing Impact This Giving Season (2024)

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Webinar with Nicole McGinn from Spin Master on how to boost employee giving and volunteering during peak Giving Season. Participants learned smart tips on campaign design, leveraging trends from the State of Corporate Purpose 2024, and ideas for projects that inspire both participation and impact

Workshop: Infusing trust-based philanthropy into volunteering (2024)

Join eBay to explore trust-based practices that empower community partners. You’ll learn how to implement the co-creation mindset into volunteering opportunities that deeply impact employees and their communities.

Webinar: Telling Your CSR Story (2022)

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Storytelling isn’t just inspiring—it’s strategic. In our latest webinar, leaders from Hootsuite, Illumina, and Benevity shared how purpose-driven narratives can boost engagement, strengthen culture, and drive real business impact. From aligning to values to amplifying employee voices, this session was packed with practical ways to bring your CSR story to life.

Workshop: Centering Values in Volunteering and Employee Engagement (2024)

Join eBay Foundation to explore how they are evolving their engagement programs by grounding them in shared values. Learn about the framing they currently use to help their global employee volunteer network to contextualize the power structures in which they sit relative to the nonprofits they support, to center causes and communities, and to keep relationships at the core of everything.

Topical Tuesday: Best Practices Around Starting or Building a Volunteer Ambassador Program (2023)

Topical Tuesday: Disaster Preparedness & Response with Center for Disaster Philanthropy (2023)

Member Group Co-Lead Feature: MedTech & Pharma (2022)

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Expert Contributor: Develop a Multi-Tier Volunteer Leader Training Program (2024)

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The guide outlines how to build a scalable, role-specific training program for volunteer leaders, equipping them with the skills to lead effectively and sustainably. It covers defining roles, developing curriculum, building supports, and launching the program—helping organizations align volunteerism with company goals and deepen community impact.

Expert Contributor: Apply the Transformative Approach to Employee Giving (2024)

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The guide helps practitioners design employee giving campaigns that go beyond transactions to foster empathy, connection, and long-term engagement. Instead of focusing solely on dollars raised, it emphasizes aligning giving efforts with community needs, storytelling, reflection, and year-round engagement. The guide outlines six key activities—from assessing current programs to measuring results—and includes tools to help campaigns support nonprofit impact, engage employees meaningfully, and advance company social impact goals

Webinar: Roundtable Defining Philanthropy in 2022

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Join Nathan Chappell, and an expert panel including Margaret Fala, Brian Crimmins, Sterrin Bird and Tiana Austel for a lively discussion titled, “Defining Philanthropy in 2022”. Prompted by a recent interview by Elon Musk "that the companies he founded or runs are forms of philanthropy because they seek to improve humankind", this engaging discussion is focused on the changing definition of philanthropy, generosity and its impact on the nonprofit sector and humanity at large.

Podcast: Generational Success with Jackie & Tiana Austel (2024)

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For many API, success stories tend to span generations. We talk about sacrifices and coming of age from a complex cultural upbringing. 

In this episode, we are so honored to chat with Tiana Austel and her mother Jackie Austel, a retired architect. Their generational journey is absolutely incredible, encompassing Jackie’s parent's experience in internment camps, her own trailblazing adventure in architecture as one of the first women in the industry, and closing with Tiana’s wonderfully rich experience as a culturally complex Asian-German woman in Corporate America.

Panel: Corporate Philanthropy Session (2021)

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A company’s commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion within its corporate social responsibility can significantly differentiate its brand among community members and prospective employees. However, DEI initiatives tend to focus on internal communities while CSR operations focus on external communities. Both, fundamentally, are about reaching out to underestimated communities, welcoming new market insights, and driving collaborative solutions. How can you ensure both teams are connected with shared priorities so they can mutually reinforce one another?
Join us for a session on connecting the teams for diversity, equity, and inclusion with corporate social responsibility.

Podcast: It's All About STEM for Illumina and San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering (SDFSE) (2020)

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Sara Pagano, Managing Director for the San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering (SDFSE), is joined by Illumina's Tiana Austel, Corporate Citizenship Specialist, and Brian Steffy, Associate Director, to talk about Illumina's longtime support of one of the nation's top science festivals.

Pagano, Austel and Steffy discuss the importance of inspiring today's students to become tomorrow's science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) innovators.