EVERFI from Blackbaud

Amplify Your Communty Impact 📣 Here at EVERFI from Blackbaud, we're building an ecosystem of impact and good across the world with some of the largest institutions in the world. Corporate social responsibility programs provide financial institutions a way to utilize their strengths to empower their communities. Using EVERFI's private labeled financial education platform as a CSR tool, is an easy way for organizations to drive measurable impact. Forge a path for consumers to engage in a meaningful way with your organization and provide the resources for the next generation to be financially capable. ✨

From movement to journaling, students experienced the transformative power of five unique therapies at a recent Mental Health Awareness Month event. 🧠 Since 2020, HCA Healthcare has teamed up with EVERFI from Blackbaud to provide mental health education for high school students through the digital course, Understanding Mental Wellness. This event at Unity Reed High School, provided students the opportunity to use their learnings from the course to engage in meaningful conversations and explore new mental health strategies. ✨

While many adults are stressed about finances, college students are dealing with an added layer of stress as they graduate and prepare to enter the workforce. 🎓 The ripple effect of student financial stress extends beyond individual well-being, influencing the broader economy through things like decreased consumer spending and delayed home ownership. 🏠 Gen Z is our future workforce. If we don’t acknowledge the connection between financial stress and mental health, it will continue to have long lasting impacts on our economy. #GenZ #SocialImpact #Graduation #Economy

We’re excited to be a featured partner for the upcoming Social Innovation Summit June 4-5 in Chicago and to collaborate and learn with social impact leaders from around the country! Dale Strange, President and Chief Operating Officer for Blackbaud Corporate Impact Solutions, will be speaking about why it’s not just the role of the nonprofit sector to drive social good forward, but how purpose-driven companies can work alongside nonprofits to truly make progress against the most complex problems we face in society today. See the full agenda here: https://blkb.co/3WFsyTu #SIS24

If you work at a financial institution, you know that driving community engagement and compliance is of the utmost importance under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). 🏦 Building programs that are impactful and scalable, as well as keeping track of qualified community development grants and volunteering services can be time-consuming, but that's where Blackbaud can help. EVERFI from Blackbaud and YourCause from Blackbaud help banks scale and track their digital financial education, employee volunteerism, and grantmaking activities. ⬇️ Download this white paper for guidance on fulfilling your bank’s CRA requirements and tracking qualified initiatives: https://lnkd.in/gDTeZbVi

The need for consistent and no-cost resources has never mattered more. As reported by CNN, many districts are warning of layoffs as the current school year comes to a close and next year’s budgets are planned. The pandemic aid funds that delivered a one-time federal investment in K-12 education must be used by the end of September, leading schools to make cuts, including to digital resources purchased to help students learn. Students and teachers need consistent access to resources and the only way to ensure they have that is to provide those resources at no cost. For 16 years, EVERFI has been working with the private sector to ensure schools have no-cost access to digital resources that teach critical skills in financial education, mental health education, and character education. With widespread teacher layoffs, limited resources, and teachers who spend too much of their own money on classroom supplies, we need to make these resources available for the next generation and future workforce.

At Fortune's Future of Finance Summit, EVERFI from Blackbaud Co-Founder and CEO Tom Davidson spoke in a roundtable session about the Community Reinvestment Act, and how we're working with customers to innovate and prepare for future requirements. Better recording and usage of data is helping banks tailor CRA loans for specific markets and help support healthier long-term outcomes long after a loan is finalized. "AI is super interesting in this because it allows you to totally reimagine the hyper-localized storytelling in this stuff,” said Tom Davidson. “We’re spending a lot of time on that and putting it in the hands of community organizations who are doing that work as well as lenders and others. That’s a lot of new wood that’s getting chopped, and it’s fascinating.” Read the full article on Fortune ⬇

Mind. 🧠 Body. 💪 Wallet. 💵 Guardian Life's purpose is to inspire mental, physical and financial wellness. Guardian brings their purpose to life through their sponsorship of a first-of-its-kind financial education course for high school students. Minding Your Money: Skills for Life helps students learn the habits, and gain the confidence and willingness to make sound financial decisions in the present and future. Through their partnership with EVERFI, Guardian volunteers are able to visit classrooms and help students build positive relationships around money through real-world financial and well-being scenarios and discussions. As of April 2024, the program has reached almost 400 schools and over 18,600 students in 19 states across the US, with 75% of those schools located in low- to moderate-income communities. Together we are leading the charge in the way that we approach and talk about the intersectional of finances and mental health. ⭐

While financial mandates (now in 25 states) are encouraging, these mandates typically amount to a one semester long course or a few lessons included within another subject.   Our research with MassMutual proves that multiple financial literacy interventions are more effective in increasing financial knowledge, self-efficacy and intended behaviors than one standalone course. Personal finance needs to be taught similarly to math - starting in elementary school, or middle school at the latest - and taught on a continuum throughout high school.   To achieve lasting financial wellness, we need sustained financial education paired with mentorship and career- focused connections, along with access to wealth-building services and opportunities.   Learn how we can reduce our country’s wealth gap and inspire lifelong financial wellness for the next generation.

Corporate Social Impact (aka Corporate Social Responsibility) goes beyond philanthropy. 🤝 It’s about integrating social impact considerations into all aspects of business operations and into relationships with stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, consumers, investors, and local communities. If you’re just getting started with corporate social impact, here are three tips to help guide you ⬇