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20192019 CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP PROGRAM Dear Friends,

For nearly eighty years, United Way of (UWNYC) has been a critical partner to the business sector in creating long-lasting social change in our City. Our expertise in community solutions positions us as a backbone, along with our unique convening power and influence—helping us to build a New York City where all individuals have access to quality education and the opportunity to lead healthy and financially secure lives. UWNYC is helping New Yorkers by uniting communities, organizations, and government to ensure families living in poverty—or­ on the brink of it—can make ends meet.

From this unique vantage point, UWNYC is positioned within the NYC business community to develop meaningful, sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility programs, which are strategically aligned to your business goals. More than just a way to give back to the local community, a partnership with UWNYC provides employers and employees with exclusive benefits, including employee engagement and leadership development, access to our women’s leadership and young professionals networks, customized volunteer opportunities to foster team building and boost morale, diversity and inclusion opportunities, and opportunities for elevating your brand. Our team at UWNYC looks forward to helping guide your company in reaching your goals, and having you be a part of the United Way network!

Thank you for your dedication and inspiring collaboration. I look forward to continuing our partnership and impacting New York City!

Sheena Wright President & CEO United Way of New York City

unitedwaynyc.org 1 About United Way of New York City Our Theory of Change

New York City is made up of more than 8.4 million people. This is the city United Way of New York City (UWNYC) is committed to helping New Yorkers of possibility—the Big Apple—where dreams are made. But for our 2.7 living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty make meaningful and million neighbors who can’t cover the basics that’s not the case. They measurable progress toward the pivotal milestone of self-sufficiency. struggle with impossible decisions everyday—food or rent, heat or healthcare. This is not okay. To strategically reach that milestone, we are taking a “two-generation” approach. We’re focusing on children’s educations at the same time as their For nearly 80 years, United Way of New York City has been a voice for parents’ financial stability. By helping them simultaneously, our impact aims our most-vulnerable neighbors, while also connecting our NYC business to be powerful and sustainable for generations to come. community. From our unique position at the intersection of business, government, and nonprofits, we are poised to bring our City’s change-makers Because a strong education is the building block for success, we focus our to the table to create and deliver on aligned, collective strategies that will work on ReadNYC—our signature program that meets the key goals of healthy move our fellow New Yorkers along the path to self-sufficiency—the ability to births, early development, and reading proficiently by third grade. ReadNYC cover the basics without need for public or private assistance. fortifies families, schools, and communities through one-on-one tutoring, expanded-day programs, summer literacy, parent engagement, professional How we set our strategies is simple, clear, and effective. development, and more. The program, alongside our EducateNYC, FeedNYC, We call it The 4 D’s. and in-development WorkNYC programs, is giving families the foundation to stand on their own two feet and become self-sufficient.

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2 unitedwaynyc.org unitedwaynyc.org 3 DEVELOPING YOUR CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAM

United Way of New York City engages the business sector as a critical  DESIGN stakeholder in social change. Together with our corporate partners, we Next, UWNYC will conduct a CSR planning session to “design” a drive lasting impact in our City—identifying­ and deploying solutions to our DESIGN customized annual corporate engagement program to move community’s toughest challenges. employees from occasional participation to true engagement. Using the corporate and cultural intelligence gathered through the Participation in our Corporate Citizenship Program not only provides you diagnose phase, UWNYC develops an action plan that can include, but is with a seat at the table for our collective impact work, but also offers a not limited to: variety of ways to achieve your business and corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals. • Monthly employee engagement • Employee Resource Group calendar development UWNYC supports your company through our partnership by working with • Next-generation, digital • Enhanced brand visibility you to develop everything from talent mangement to guiding philanthropic philanthropy platform principals—all by helping build your CSR program. Using the 4D’s—our • Formal and informal philosophy for setting strategy—we can help your company diagnose, • Year-round portfolio of team- professional development design, deploy, and drive toward your CSR goals. building opportunities opportunities • Annual strategic • New client and strategic DIAGNOSE communications plan relationship building First, UWNYC helps companies conduct a deep dive “diagnosis” to

DIAGNOSE fully examine the goals and objectives of your corporate social • Actionable community • Flagship networking events investment portfolio responsibility efforts. Leveraging our rich experience and • Leadership workshops, expertise, we help identify what values rise to the top for your organization, • Opportunities to partner coaching and keynote and pinpoint the right opportunities for its executives, managers, staff and with a company’s clients conversations our local community. This “diagnose” stage identifies a company’s needs on CSR intiatives • Training to secure strategic from a variety of perspectives: • Hands-on, in-community nonprofit board placements volunteerism • Leadership • Talent Acquisition & Retention • Enhanced brand and CSR • Business Practices • Development • Skills-based volunteerism awareness campaign opportunities • Human Capital • Diversity & Inclusion • Brand Capital • Innovative Impact

4 unitedwaynyc.org unitedwaynyc.org 5 DEPLOY Once your annual engagement program has been fully designed,

DEPLOY UWNYC will assign an experienced management team to work closely with your company to “deploy” the program within your organization. By activating the carefully crafted engagement plan, your VISIONARY employees across the entire organization will undergo a fundamental change $500K + in how they act, think, and experience the impact they can have in their community through their employer; the strengthened alliances and stronger working relationships with both existing and new clients; and the increased brand equity that distinguishes your organization from its competitors. INNOVATOR $250K–$499K DRIVE Finally, we “drive” true engagement beyond the merely

DRIVE transactional aspects of charitable giving, to the transformational investment of the organization’s time, talent, and treasure to create outsized impact where you and your employees operate and reside. UWNYC helps our partners create value through social change and empowers organizations with the data to deeply understand the community impact associated with their investment. CHAMPION $100K–$249K

LEADER $50K–$99K

SUPPORTER $10K–$49K

For more information about this program, please contact: Meaghan Brown at (212) 251-4063 or [email protected].

6 unitedwaynyc.org unitedwaynyc.org 7 Visionary Innovator Champion Leader Supporter BENEFITS ($500K+) ($250K-$499K) ($100K-$249K) ($50K - $99K) ($10K-$49K)

Connection with United Way’s prominent brand that includes nearly 1,800 United Ways in 41      countries and territories

Partnership and assistance around charitable      giving strategy and achieving CSR goals

(4) Volunteer activities (3) Volunteer activities (3) Volunteer activities Employee engagement opportunities, Customized year-round employee Customized year-round Customized year-round (2) Volunteer activities (1) Volunteer activity including volunteerism engagement plan employee engagement plan employee engagement plan     

VIP Access VIP Access VIP Access Priority Access Priority Access Access to exclusive events     

VIP Access VIP Access VIP Access Priority Access Priority Access Sponsorship opportunities     

Annual learning opportunity at a UWNYC     community-partner agency

Unlimited WLC and YLC general (4) WLC and YLC (2) Memberships included: (2) Memberships included: Leadership development opportunities through memberships, executive memberships, including (1) Women’s Leadership (1) Women’s Leadership UWNYC’s affinity groups including the Women’s committee and subcommittee executive committee and Council Council Leadership Council (WLC) and Young Leaders memberships subcommittee membership (1) Young Leaders Council (1) Young Leaders Council Council (YLC)    

Promotion on all UWNYC social media channels   

Dedicated team of senior level executives; Chairman involvement included   inclusive of CEO and Board involvement 

Annual company on-site briefing about social (2) On-site briefings (1) On-site briefing issues by a UWNYC/community-partner expert  

Customized campaign communications plan and   branded marketing material

Press generation and deployment to extensive   UWNYC media network

Company branding and recognition in select  marketing material

Opportunity for C-Suite Executives to serve on  select UWNYC Board Committees

Dialogue with thought leaders from business, government, and nonprofit sectors to shape best  solutions for a better New York City

A carefully curated UWNYC collective impact  investment portfolio 8 unitedwaynyc.org unitedwaynyc.org 9 OUR CORPORATE PARTNERS (JULY 1, 2017 – JUNE 30, 2018)

VISIONARY $500K+ US Bank Boston Properties Lord, Abbett & Co., LLC Brown Brothers Harriman Willis Towers Watson Building Contractors Association LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. Macy’s & Bloomingdale’s CCMP Capital Advisors, LP Mass Electric Construction/ Kiewit SUPPORTER $25K-$49K Citadel McCarthy Tétrault LLP INNOVATOR $250K-$499K Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. Clune Construction McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe LLP American Express Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Coach Foundation Meehan Consulting Group Bank of America Blackrock Financial Management, Inc. Colgate-Palmolive Miranda Partners LLC Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bloomberg LP Construction Risk Partners MJR Foundation LLC BMO Capital Markets CBRE Cross NY Morrison & Foerster LLP BNY Mellon Centerbridge Partners, LP Customers Bank National Futures Association Hearst Chubb Day Pitney LLP Nationwide Insurance Helmsley Charitable Trust Citigroup Dell, Inc Neuberger Berman L Brands CommonWealth Partners Delta Air Lines New York Giants National Grid Costco Wholesale Corporation Digitas NFL Foundation Sidley Austin LLP Crescent Digital Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP Northern Trust International TD Bank/Securities Cushman & Wakefield Donnelly Mechanical Corporation Nuveen UPS Defenders Duane Morris LLP Oppenheimer Funds Wells Fargo Driscoll Foods East West Bank Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Empire Architectural Metal Corp. P.E. Stone, Inc. Empire Office Penguin Air Conditioning Corp. CHAMPION $100K-$249K Express Etsy, Inc. PNC Bank Accenture LLP Global Atlantic Financial Group Eurotech Construction Prudential Financial, Inc. Altman Foundation Goodwin Procter LLP Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP Richard L. Hoffman & Associates, Inc. Blackstone Harland Clarke Corporate Experian Rhonda & Stratton Heath Charitable Fund CIBC World Markets Corp./New York IBM Fabiani Cohen & Halls, LLP Santander Bank Comcast NBCUniversal Jones Lang Lasalle Americas Facebook Shoprunner May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Fifth Third Bank Sionic Advisors Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation National Hockey League First Trust SJP Enterprise Holdings, Inc. New York-Presbyterian Hospital Fred Geller Electrical, Inc. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Federal Reserve Bank of New York Pfizer General Atlantic Spaceworks Architectural Interiors FedEx Corporation PIMCO General Electric Company SRS Enterprise, Inc. Scripps Networks Interactive Gensler State Street Global Advisors Principal Financial Group Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP GIS Syska Hennessy The Guardian Life Insurance Company Skanska SourceMedia Goldman Sachs Tec Systems SunTrust Bank Gramercy Group Ted Moudis & Associates LEADER $50k-$99K The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Harvard Maintenance The Durst Organization Assurant The Education Trust-New York Herrick Feinstein LLP Thomson Reuters AT&T Corporation Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Hugh O’Kane Electric Company, Inc. Tishman Speyer Properties Colliers International Icon Interiors, Inc. Unity Electric Co., Inc. Consolidated Edison IPC USAA Real Estate Company Ernst & Young SUPPORTER $10k-$24K James & Helen Cabrera Memorial Verizon Corporation Alliance Bernstein JPMorgan Chase & Co. John Gallin & Sons, Inc. Vestar Capital Partners Allianz Global Investors KPMG L&K Partners, Inc. Webster Bank American Girl Brands, LLC Latham & Watkins Lafayette 148, Inc. WilmerHale Amundi Pioneer Asset Management MetLife Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Zurich North America Aon Risk Solution New York Jets Lesley G. Silvester Family Foundation New York University Bain & Company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Ballard Spahr LLP Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Structure Tone, Inc. Blank Rome LLP BNP Paribas Investment Partners United Way of New York City 205 East 42nd Street · New York, NY 10017

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