Sage Foundation empowers Atlanta nonprofits through leadership and mentoring programs
29 5월 2024 - 10:00PM
Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll
technology for small and medium-sized businesses, announces its
2024 Sage Foundation Grow Program nonprofit participants,
strategically matching nonprofit leaders with Sage executives for
mentorship and guidance. Over the course of five months, The Grow
Program aims to help solve specific challenges that may be
hampering the nonprofits’ growth.
Together, Sage and nonprofit leaders work to name the issues
blocking progress, brainstorm possible solutions, and create an
action plan to ensure lasting change. Each nonprofit leader
participant will walk away with new tools and skills to not only
execute strategic projects that drive their organization’s social
impact in their communities but to also improve the leader’s own
capacity and leadership skills. The primary areas of interest from
this year’s cohort are developing strategic business plans,
defining vision and goals, and enhancing marketing and
communications.
The 2024 cohort consists of four local nonprofits in metro
Atlanta:
-
21st Century
Leaders: a youth leadership nonprofit, connecting Georgia
businesses with high school youth around the state through
innovative partnerships, fostering leadership development, career
readiness and inclusion.
- East Atlanta
Kids Club: a youth development nonprofit, offering no-cost
afterschool, summer camp, counseling, family cafe, and food
security programming for youth placed at-risk in southeast
Atlanta.
- VOX
ATL: a teen-driven independent media outlet fostering a
professional space and learning environment for metro-Atlanta
teens.
-
YELLS: a youth empowerment nonprofit, building
marketable skills through youth-led service, inspiring them to
invest in themselves, in their education, and in their
communities.
These organizations join the 20 nonprofits that the Grow Program
has supported over the last three years across the US, Canada, and
Australia.
2023 participant HYPE, an Atlanta-based
nonprofit that works to equip girls of color with tech skills to
help diversify the tech talent pipeline, came to the Sage
Foundation Grow Program with an outdated organizational structure
that no longer supported their growth goals – for their communities
or their employees. HYPE’s Executive Director Kristina Newton
wanted to identify ways to evolve the current structure and learn
how to iterate upon it in future periods of growth.
Kristina Newton of HYPE said, “It’s an
understatement to say that as a nonprofit leader, you have to wear
many hats – but the new organizational structure I created with
mentors from Sage equipped me in two ways. Firstly, I’m much more
confident about positioning my nonprofit as a partner and employer
of choice in my community because we have a clear path to support
each person who works for us. And secondly, because of that
confidence, I was able to take my maternity leave without worrying
about my colleagues’ roles and responsibilities, or our operations
– we had the infrastructure in place to manage that transition just
fine.”
Renee Mathewson, VP of Corporate Affairs in North
America at Sage and Grow Program’s executive sponsor,
adds, “Often, we see nonprofits get the short end of the
stick for budget and headcount resources. And as a global
corporation, Sage has a real opportunity to uplift and help scale
their work and programs. We strive to knock down those barriers and
help these organizations thrive. Building on the passion of these
nonprofit leaders, we can support their business aspirations to
create a plan that is sustainable after the program finishes.”
About SageSage exists to knock down barriers so
everyone can thrive, starting with the millions of small- and
mid-sized businesses served by us, our partners, and accountants.
Customers trust our finance, HR, and payroll software to help
business flow. By digitizing business processes and relationships
with customers, suppliers, employees, banks and governments, our
digital network connects SMBs, removing friction and delivering
insights. Knocking down barriers also means we use our time,
technology, and experience to tackle digital inequality, economic
inequality, and the climate crisis. Learn more at
www.sage.com/en-us/
Sage Foundation was established in 2015 to connect with
nonprofits globally to knock down barriers, mobilizing Sage
colleagues, partners, and customers through impactful and
innovative programs. Through our strategic partnerships, Sage
Foundation is supporting underrepresented groups to grow
sustainable businesses, giving young people access to STEM skills
and knocking down barriers to entrepreneurship in the developing
world. Sage Foundation gives every colleague five days’ paid
volunteering leave every year to spend time knocking down barriers
locally, supporting causes that are important to them. To date,
Sage foundation has raised USD $3 million to support non-profits
globally and colleagues have volunteered 150,000 days to help
causes they care about the most. Learn more
at www.sage.com/en-us/company/sage-foundation/
Media Contacts:Brittany Farquhar, Corporate
Affairs Managerbrittany.farquhar@sage.com
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