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Sponsored by the Joyce, Peter G. Peterson, and J.B. & M.K. Pritzker Family foundations, as well as Allstate, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, and APCO Worldwide, the two-day event, held June 7-8, convened nearly a thousand leaders representing Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies at the state and local level around a wide range of topics, from job creation, to stimulating economic growth, to fostering innovation, to supporting workforce development in the United States.
agencies, and other organizations that effectively run FOCS to help low to moderate income families become financially stable by providing them with skills that allow them to find and sustain employment by learning to budget, save, build credit and make careful use of conventional financial products and services. Once all 10 centers are up and running, LISC expects that over 2500 people will be impacted. -----------------------------------------------------------Expanding 21st Century Career Technical Education Commitment by: WireNET Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, WIRE-Net committed to expanding the “To The Max” partnership to facilitate the enrollment of 630 students in quality technical education at New Max Hayes High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and the placement of students in 701 part-time jobs within high-tech fields of manufacturing, transportation, IT and construction. WIRE-Net recognizes that the 45% of young Americans who are not college-bound require an educational system with a stronger focus on career-oriented programs and occupational credentials. WIRE-Net will partner with a coalition of community and business organizations and the school district, to develop a plan to transform the Max Hayes public high school into a model of 21st century career technical education. Within four years, the board will leverage industry partnerships to place an average of 200 students per year in high-tech part time jobs. -----------------------------------------------------------Doubling of Make An Impact Program Commitment by: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Focus Area: Environment & Energy
Introduction: In 2012, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) committed to the expansion of the Make it Right program, a unique employee-focused energy efficiency program to educate and empower individuals to understand and reduce their personal carbon footprint. C2ES committed to achieving an aggregate reduction of 6 million pounds of carbon dioxide through the actions and commitments of 16,000 individuals. C2ES engages individuals through its website and workshops (measured by website visits, workshop attendance, use of the carbon calculator, and signatures on the pledge list).
Got Your Six Campaign Commitment by: Service Nation Focus Area: Economic Empowerment
Introduction: In January 2012, ServiceNation and the Got Your 6 Consortium committed to lead a multi-year awareness and activation campaign to change the conversation in America about veterans and military families. Got Your 6 is a campaign led by the entertainment industry to connect Americans with veterans and military families in order to build relationships that will aid transition, foster leadership, and reinvigorate American communities. In order to better enable military veterans to succeed in civilian life, the Got Your 6 campaign will focus on the six pillars of reintegration: jobs, housing, education, health, family, and leadership. Area-focused activation partners will help civilians identify opportunities to better un-
derstand veterans and increase opportunities for veterans to lead here at home. This campaign strives to bridge the growing civilian-military divide. ----------------------------------------------------------Green Button initiative, Johnson Controls Commitment by: Johnson Controls, Inc. Focus Area: Environment & Energy
Introduction: In 2012, Johnson Controls committed to join the Green Button Initiative. The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort that responds to a White House call-toaction to provide consumers with secure, easy-to-understand data about their energy use to help them take better control of their energy bills. Johnson Controls’ commitment to the Green Button initiative is to implement the Green Button data standard and on-line interface within its Panoptix™ Building Efficiency Information Management Platform. The implementation of the Green Button data standard into Johnson Controls’ platform will help provide commercial building owners and tenants with standardized, on-line access to interval energy meter information from a large number of utility energy providers across the country. It will also enable the development and widespread deployment of innovative new building measurement, analysis and control applications. ------------------------------------------------------------
professional development training. The Saylor Foundation will implement this commitment by contracting with professors and subject matter experts to develop quality and relevant course content. These courses will target youth and adult learners, with the goal of providing opportunities for skills development and career strategy. ----------------------------------------------------------Building Chicago’s Civic Council to Improve Youth Success Commitment by: Robert R. McCormick Foundation Chicago Allies for Youth Success Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, the McCormick Foundation, with Chicago Allies for Youth Success, committed to establishing the Civic Council for Youth Success. This Council will bring together cross-sector stakeholders invested in afterschool programs in Chicago with the goal of increasing the access, reach and quality of expanded learning opportunities for young people in Chicago. The Civic Council work will be “powered” by the Chicago Youth Program DataBank, which will draw on data on more than 220,000 young people engaged in more than 28,000 activities across Chicago to determine how to drive impact. ----------------------------------------------------------
ECONOMICS
Creating the Impact Infrastructure Commodity Exchange IICX Commitment by: Impact Infrastructure, LLC Focus Area: Environment & Energy
Introduction: In 2012, Impact Infrastructure, LLC committed to the creation of the Impact Infrastructure Commodities Exchange (IICX) which will serve as a marketplace for infrastructure project sponsors and investors. Through this marketplace, projects will be valued and linked to their full impacts, including jobs, social, environmental and economic benefits, contributions to community resilience, and competitive advantages associated with regional solutions. The marketplace will provide industry accepted standards for infrastructure performance analysis, a venue through which project sponsors and investors can interact, rules to govern transactions, transactional support and servicing, and post investment performance reporting. The Exchange will support the existing capital deployment sector including investment advisors and banks currently working in the field by providing a concentrated market and expanding their due diligence capacity in service to the entire U.S. infrastructure market. ------------------------------------------------------------Saylor Foundation Workplace and Job Search Skills Program Commitment by: Saylor Foundation Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, the Saylor Foundation committed to building and providing at least twelve online courses comprising a Workplace Skills, Job Search and Career Development curricula, online and free of charge. These will cover a range of competencies, progressing from basic job skills such as writing and basic computing abilities, to skills directly related to finding a job, to
Supporting Youth Development through Mentoring and Sport Commitment by: Beat the Streets Philadelphia Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, Beat the Streets (BTS) Philadelphia committed to expand its mentoring program to 1,000 students, and to offer social and emotional learning, and academic support in Philadelphia and surrounding urban areas. Currently, nearly 100 percent of students participating in Beat the Streets Philadelphia’s programs have earned their high school diploma and matriculated to postsecondary education or entered the military. The addition of an enhanced mentoring program to a larger group of students has the potential of altering the trajectory of the lives of children from underprivileged environments. ---------------------------------------------------------Expanding and Implementing the Mentor Pledge Commitment by: iMentor Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, iMentor and Morgan Stanley committed to expanding their Mentor Pledge. iMentor launched the Mentor Pledge in January 2012 in partnership with 10 leading companies, including Morgan Stanley, that each pledged to recruit 100 of their employees to serve as mentors to students in high schools in low-income communities throughout New York City. Through this commitment, Morgan Stanley is now doubling its pledge from 100 to 200 mentors. To implement this commitment, iMentor will work with Morgan Stanley, and all the founding pledge companies, to organize mentor recruitment and training events for employees and promote the initiative to all staff. iMentor will match these volunteers with students from its
partner public high schools in one-to-one mentoring relationships that last up to four years. ----------------------------------------------------------DO ONE THING: A Neighborhood HIV & HCV Testing Campaign Commitment by: Brown University Focus Area: Global Health
Introduction: In 2012, Brown University’s Global Health Initiative committed to developing a comprehensive, neighborhood-based approach to HIV and HCV testing and prevention in a highly impacted, underserved neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA that will test 12,000 individuals for HIV and HCV. The primary goal of DO ONE THING is to diagnose and link as many individuals as possible to care services in order to address racial disparities in HIV and HCV diagnoses and care. Local engagement and program sustainability will be promoted by hiring 30 local field staff members, mobilizing local institutions to promote and destigmatize testing, widespread HIV and HCV testing by 100 trained health profession students in clinical and non-clinical settings across the entire neighborhood, and reporting on the results of this campaign in scientific, peer-reviewed literature. ------------------------------------------------------------
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in America’s Heartland Commitment by: The Entrepreneur Center Focus Area: Economic Empowerment
Introduction: In 2012, the Entrepreneur Center committed to expand its successful rural entrepreneurship program throughout America’s heartland and South via a threephase plan. The commitment will begin with the July 2012 publication of a white paper detailing lessons learned on building rural entrepreneurial ecosystems, based on the Center’s successful work in Tennessee. Following publication, the Entrepreneur Center will begin broadcasting monthly webcasts which will include resources and materials to help rural startups grow and strengthen entrepreneurial activity in their communities. Finally, a conference called “American Dreamweavers” will be held in 2013 to share rural start-up stories and successes. Based on its experience in Tennessee, the Center expects this commitment to help create over 3,000 jobs. -----------------------------------------------------------Community College Student Success in School and Beyond Commitment by: Illinois Education Foundation Focus Area: Education
Introduction: In 2012, the Illinois Education Foundation (IEF) committed to scale nationally its successful, cost-effective program which provides academic, personal, professional and financial supports to low-income community college students in the Chicagoland area. IEF will expand from serving several hundred students annually to over a thousand, and will open new satellite locations in Illinois and three additional states to be identified. Over the three years of the commitment, 1,200 community college students, a population that has been historically underserved by non-profit education programs, will receive services. IEF’s model utilizes social entrepreneurs in high need communities to launch new chapters with financial and technical support from the IEF headquarters.