2020 PHILANTHROPY Our Priority Areas of Focus: Developing Leaders, Preserving Places and Serving Communities
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2020 PHILANTHROPY Our Priority Areas of Focus: Developing Leaders, Preserving Places and Serving Communities. This includes American Express Foundation and corporate gifts. In 2020, we contributed $42.5 million to communities around the world. How We Give Supporting Colleagues* *Includes COVID-19 relief grants, Matching, 16% Serve2Gether Grants, Employee Scholarships and Culture Card Programs. Developing 16% Leaders Serving Preserving Communities 16% 52% Places 2 We trained more than 21,000 emerging social purpose leaders through American Express funded leadership programs. 3 Developing Leaders We help emerging social purpose leaders build their leadership skills and organizational effectiveness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we continued to support best-in-class leadership development training through virtual and hybrid (in-person and virtual) programming. In 2020, we trained more than 275 global Recognizing the ongoing need to scale access emerging social purpose leaders through nine to leadership training, we continued our virtual or hybrid American Express Leadership support for Leaderosity.com and the Acumen Academy programs. The Leadership Academy Academy. In order to tell the stories of these is designed as a multidisciplinary approach leaders, we remained the sole sponsor of to train the current and next generation of Leaderstories.org — a storytelling platform for emerging leaders through intensive leadership Academy participants and grant recipients. development training programs targeted to In addition, we made 65 grants to nonprofit different segments of the social sector. Over organizations that switched to virtual formats 5,400 emerging leaders have participated in a to create, develop or maintain their own Leadership Academy since 2008. leadership development programs for high We also strengthened our ongoing Leadership potential, emerging leaders. Academy alumni engagement through the American Express Leadership Academy Alumni network. The Alumni created a new initiative, Leaders Café, to address the challenges leaders faced this year. This alumni-driven open forum provided a virtual space for continued learning, networking and sharing of best practices during uncertain times. 4 Developing Leaders - $6.7M Acumen Fund Atlas Service Corps Acumen Online Leadership Platform, New York, NY 2021 Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summits, Washington, DC Alliance for Strong Families and Communities Leadership Through Affinity Groups, Milwaukee, WI Atlas Service Corps American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Award, American Foundation for the Blind Washington, DC Leadership to Build a Culture of Inclusion, Arlington, VA Atlas Service Corps Leadership Development Program & Leadership Fellow, American Leadership Forum Washington, DC Join & Strengthen Diverse Leaders for Common Good, Houston, TX Baltimore Corps Developing Impact Leaders for COVID-19 Relief, American Symphony Orchestra League Baltimore, MD Emerging Leaders Program and Digital Learning, New York, NY Berkeley Repertory Theatre Leadership and Resilience for Theatre Workers, Americans for Indian Opportunity Berkeley, CA Ambassador Alumni Engagement Project, Albuquerque, NM Brioxy Diverse Leadership Pipeline Online Network, Americans for the Arts Oakland, CA Arts U Phase 2: Advancing Leadership Education, Washington, DC Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service Communications Staff Development Project, Arizona Science Center Brooklyn, NY Life Long Learning L3 Series, Phoenix, AZ Building Movement Project Arizona State University Foundation for Race to Lead: Developing A Race Equity Assessment, A New American University New York, NY American Express Leadership Academy Thunderbird, Tempe, AZ Campaign for Black Male Achievement Leadership Webinars and General Operating Support, Arizona State University Lodestar Center for New York, NY Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation American Express Leadership Academy, Center for Nonprofit Advancement Phoenix, AZ Executive Preparation Institute, Washington, DC Ashoka Chicago Foundation for Women Masterclass Webinars and General Operating Support, Virtual Womens Leadership Development Initiative, Arlington, VA Chicago, IL Aspen Institute, The College Summit General Operating Support, Washington, DC LeadForward: Coaches-In-Training, Washington, DC Association of Performing Arts Professionals Common Purpose Charitable Trust Leadership Fellows Program Alumni Network, American Express Leadership Academies, Washington, DC London, United Kingdom 5 Developing Leaders - $6.7M Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Growth Philanthropy Network Catalyst Leadership Program, Atlanta, GA Exchange National Conference: Unifying Leadership, New York, NY Coro New York Leadership Center Immigrant Civic Leadership Program, New York, NY Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement Leadership Academy - Nonprofit Pipeline Initiative, Council of Urban Professionals Institute, The Chicago, IL CUP Virtual NY/LA Fellows Program, New York, NY Hispanics In Philanthropy Dance/USA Latinx Lideres Virtual Program, Oakland, CA General Operating Support, Washington, DC Hispanics In Philanthropy Echoing Green Lideres Fellowship in Mexico, Oakland, CA Affinity-Based Approach to Leadership Development, New York, NY Independent Sector 2020-2022 NGen Fellows, Award and Online Courses, Education and Research Foundation of the Washington, DC Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York BBB Charity Effectiveness Program Series, King Baudouin Foundation United States New York, NY Virtual Leaders in Heritage Management Workshops, New York, NY Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Center for Leadership Development, New York, NY Latino Policy Forum Multicultural Leadership Academy Alumni Program, Forum for Youth Investment, The Chicago, IL LeaderStories Platform and Engagement, Washington, DC Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics Impact: a program for emerging nonprofit leaders, Georgetown University Los Angeles, CA New Strategies Program, Washington, DC LeaderSpring, a Project of the Tides Center Georgia Center for Nonprofits Women of Color LeadStrong, Oakland, CA High Potential Diverse Leaders Program, Atlanta, GA Management Leadership for Tomorrow Girls Virtual Development of Diverse Nonprofit Leaders, Leadership Framework Launch, New York, NY Bethesda, MD Give2Asia Mandela Institute for Humanity, The Service Academy Partner-Japan General Support, The Mandela Fellowship Oakland, CA New York, NY Global Good Fund Maven Leadership Collective Leadership Development Curriculum & LEAP Program, Leadership Program Alumni Support, Miami, FL Glenwood, MD NAF Global Health Corps General Support, New York, NY Leadership Training Institute for Fellows, New York, NY 6 Developing Leaders - $6.7M National Guild for Community Arts Education Seedspot Leading Beyond Crisis: CAELI Alumni Program, Empowering Underrepresented Entrepreneurs, New York, NY Phoenix, AZ National Trust for Historic Preservation in the U.S. SRI Foundation American Express Aspire Award, Washington, DC ARCUS Leadership Program, Rio Rancho, NM National Urban League Steppenwolf Theatre Company Emerging Leaders Program (ELP), New York, NY Teaching Artist Program, Chicago, IL New Profit Take The Lead Virtual Leadership Development, Boston, MA 50 Women Alumnae Leadership Program, New York, NY New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Administrative Fellows Program, New York, NY Visual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Arts and Cultural Fellowships Programs, Leaderosity Talent and Leadership Platform, New York, NY Kansas City, MO World Monuments Fund OPERA America Leadership Workshop for Heritage Professionals, Leadership Development Program, New York, NY New York, NY Partnership for After School Education Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children Alumni Leadership Institute, New York, NY Legacy Leadership Program for Executive Directors, New York, NY PhD Project Association AHEAD: Achieving Higher Ed Administration Diversity, Montvale, NJ Princeton Project 55 Emerging Leaders Online, Princeton, NJ Pro Inspire Emerging Leaders Cohort and Alumni Network, Washington, DC Public Allies Creating Pathways to Opportunity for Men of Color, Milwaukee, WI Radical Partners Strategic Planning Summit & Alumni Support, Miami, FL RVC Seattle Leaders of Color Fellowship Program, Seattle, WA 7 We supported 25 historic preservation projects, including several programs that allowed visitors to access historic sites virtually during the pandemic. Koutammakou houses-Land of the Batammariba photo by Damien Radermecker 8 Preserving Places We support organizations and projects that preserve or restore major historic sites to provide sustainable access and enjoyment for current and future visitors. Through our partnership with the National over the last three years; Museo Nacional de Trust for Historic Preservation, we supported Antropologia (Mexico City, Mexico) to restore a Virtual Preservation Month to promote 31 two key pieces of the Museum’s permanent virtual tours and other new ways of engaging collection: View of Tenochtitlan in the Lake of with historic buildings and sites during the Mexico by Luis Covarrubias and Interpretation COVID-19 pandemic. From the Pauli Murray of Huichol Techniques 1 by Mathias Goeritz. House in Durham, North Carolina to the Lower We also sponsored the World Monuments East Side Tenement Museum in New York Fund’s 2020 Monuments Watch, a list of City, New York to Route 66 from Illinois to 25 sites from around the world, in which California, the Trust transported