Corporate Partnerships
Why Partner with Accion?
Your company's success depends on satisfying customers, staff and public opinion in order to meet a bottom line. Partnering with Accion can help you meet these goals. We share your business perspective and know how to build beneficial corporate partnerships. Across Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States – regions that your staff cares about or works in – you can inspire key stakeholders with your support of sustainable, creative ways to help millions help themselves. Together we can reduce vulnerability and increase opportunity for millions of poor households around the world.
Partnership Opportunities
- Sponsorship: Highlight your brand with key audiences by sponsoring Accion's events or campaigns, or ground-breaking research by our Center for Financial Inclusion. Your brand will gain worldwide attention as it helps advance financial inclusion for the poor. Learn more >
- Team Engagement: Sponsor or participate in Accion’s MicroBike, our global bike-a-thon to raise support for helping millions help themselves – and at any of our locations, engage employees in a healthy, fun activity with purpose. Learn more >
- Client Gifts: Honor your business clients or reward staff by making a meaningful tribute donation in their name through Accion’s online MicroMarket. Learn more >
- Workplace Campaign: Engage staff with the opportunity to express their passion for poverty alleviation around the world by supporting Accion through your company’s employee giving campaign.
- Pro-bono Services: Enable your staff to offer their expertise to help accomplish Accion’s mission to reduce poverty and improve lives around the world.
- Grants & Investments: Make a foundation grant or an investment in Accion’s work to help the poor access opportunity. The stories we’ll provide of client success and our collaboration with you will boost awareness of your CSR activities with a global audience. Learn more >
See examples of Accion's work with corporate partners >
A Better Bottom Line
- “Employees who are very involved in their company’s cause program are 36 percent more likely to feel a strong sense of loyalty than those who are not involved.”*
- “As a result of nonprofit-corporate partnerships, 59 percent of Americans are more likely to buy a product associated with the partnership.”*
- “62 percent of Americans believe companies should help alleviate poverty if it touches the company’s business.”*
Get Started
Contact Chris Wolff, Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships at +1 (206) 393-8179 or cwolff@accion.org to discuss how a partnership with Accion can benefit your company.
* www.coneinc.com/research
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