Case Studies | Cause Consulting

Signature Brand & Cause Campaign

Brewing the American Dream is a signature cause initiative whose mission is to provide lower-income entrepreneurs with the essential ingredients to become financially independent in the food and beverage industry. With partners such as ACCION USA, the program helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses and create jobs by providing access to business loans, financial education training, and new networks.

Adobe CSR

Global CSR Strategy and Communications

“Create Change" is Adobe’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) call-to-action. This strategy and communications platform guides how they operate their business, design new products, and address pressing social and environmental issues. Create Change helps connect teams and initiatives across the company.

Adobe Youth Voices

Global Signature Philanthropy Program

Adobe Youth Voices engages 13-18 year olds in the creation of digital media that captures their passion and concerns about social issues. The program empowers global educators to integrate technology into their teaching, and enables young people to learn critical technology and life skills.

AMD Changing the Game

Global Signature Cause Program

AMD Changing the Game is the AMD Foundation’s signature education initiative leveraging the power and experience of gaming as a way to teach young people critical STEM and life skills. Through the game development process, young people learn how to problem-solve, collaborate, communicate effectively and negotiate.

ARAMARK Building Community

Signature Employee Engagement Program

ARAMARK Building Community is a signature philanthropic and employee volunteer program dedicated to enriching lives in local communities around the world. ARAMARK applies its unique culinary, nutrition, workforce training, and facilities management expertise toward strengthening the capacity of local community centers.

ARAMARK: Enriching Lives Every Day

CSR Framework and Strategy

Enriching Lives Every Day is ARAMARK’s master CSR framework and brand. It reinforces the purposeful daily work of their 250,000 global employees. This platform aligns, unifies and communicates the company’s diverse workforce, environmental, supply chain, nutrition, health, and community initiatives.

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

Tailored CSR Training

The Cause Consulting team is passionate about teaching and sharing CSR best practices with other professionals. For the Boston College Center of Corporate Citizenship, we created and taught the three-day, intensive Communications for CSR and Corporate Contributions Managers course in cities across the U.S.

eBay Foundation The Opportunity Project

Global Signature Philanthropy Program

The Opportunity Project is a global social innovation initiative of the eBay Foundation that supports and helps scale market-based approaches to empowering economic opportunity. The program seeks to generate employment; create access to markets, and give vulnerable individuals the ability to earn a fair wage.

Fidelity at School

National Community Relations and Employee Volunteerism Program

Fidelity at School addresses the high school dropout crisis by inspiring middle school students stay to in school. Through strategic partnerships with leading nonprofit organizations, Fidelity employees engage students in a range of college and career exploration opportunities to connect their passions with their futures.

PlayPumps International

Nonprofit Positioning

As part of the global team that launched PlayPumps International, Cause Consulting developed positioning, branding, and communications strategies to help this new organization bring clean drinking water to millions of African families through the innovative PlayPump Water System. It's simple: "kids play, water pumps!"

Starbucks Ethos Water

Cause-related Product Introduction

Ethos Water is a cause-related product owned and distributed by Starbucks that raises money to address the global drinking water crisis through every purchase. Cause Consulting was part of an integrated team at Starbucks that launched and introduced Ethos Water in the marketplace.