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Disrupting Unemployment

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      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
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      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
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      • National Industrial Training Institute
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      • Nestlé needs YOUth
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      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
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      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
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  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet

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Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2014 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Global expansion: The partnership was introduced in selected locations initially, and it will be expanded internationally based on best practices, lessons learned and results achieved.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
The United States and Canada initially, with planned expansion to China, Mexico, India and other countries

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
100-1,000 initially by MMC partnership, with the opportunity to increase to 10,000+ by all JA corporate partnerships

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement
  • Reputation
  • Return on investment (ROI)
  • Social ROI
  • Performance evaluation/grades of participants
  • Graduation rates of participants
  • Increased wages of participants
  • Partnerships developed
  • Content training/modules and training offered
  • Health and security of entrepreneurs’ businesses

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2014 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Global expansion: The partnership was introduced in selected locations initially, and it will be expanded internationally based on best practices, lessons learned and results achieved.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
The United States and Canada initially, with planned expansion to China, Mexico, India and other countries

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
100-1,000 initially by MMC partnership, with the opportunity to increase to 10,000+ by all JA corporate partnerships

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement
  • Reputation
  • Return on investment (ROI)
  • Social ROI
  • Performance evaluation/grades of participants
  • Graduation rates of participants
  • Increased wages of participants
  • Partnerships developed
  • Content training/modules and training offered
  • Health and security of entrepreneurs’ businesses

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies

Submitted by Marsh & McLennan Companies

Objective

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

Overview and Main Activities

Junior Achievement (JA) is a non-profit organization with global reach, strong partnerships with corporations and schools, well-developed programmes and a sustained record of achieving results.

In the United States alone, more than 18 million adults between the ages of 18 and 64 have not graduated from high school and therefore do not qualify for most of the jobs in the current and future economy (ACT 2009). JA programmes aim to prepare students for life after school, providing them with the skills needed to succeed in the workplace.

Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) provide funding and volunteers in support of the shared commitment to youth, education and employment. MMC’s engagement includes:

  • JA BizTown: helping elementary students learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship as they run their own business for a day in a real-world simulation
  • JA Finance Park: helping middle school students navigate the world of personal finances as they assume the role of an “adult for the day” in a financial literacy laboratory
  • JA in a Day: teaching financial literacy curriculum in the classroom to children in kindergarten through 5th grade
  • Board Service: providing professional consulting expertise
  • Individual volunteer experiences: delivering relevant, experiential curricula to students at a school and grade level of the MMC colleague’s choice in the community, including:
    • Elementary schools: helping students learn how they can impact the world around them as individuals, workers and consumers
    • Middle grades and high schools: helping students learn about financial literacy, college and career readiness and entrepreneurship

In these and all JA programmes, volunteers help students process information, apply basic skills, think critically and solve complex problems.

While still in the early stages, the partnership between JA and MMC is a win-win situation for all involved. JA also has partnerships with other leading corporations, and the model is highly replicable and scalable globally.

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Strategic alignment of the initiative with organization priorities and commitment to diversity
  • Unique combination of central leadership (between the MMC corporate social responsibility team and JA USA/National who own the partnership) and local office engagement (colleagues in offices are members of local JA Boards and serve as partnership advocates)
  • Policy support (including global month of volunteering, a paid day off to volunteer, the Dollars for Doers programme, etc.)

Main challenges:

  • Funding/budget support: needed to build the business case, based on metrics and goals
  • Communications: requiring multiple communication channels to achieve the reach and engagement desired
  • Strategic volunteering: part of a broader transformation to encourage skillsbased volunteering

Recommendations for Others

The opportunity always exists to bring innovation for continuous improvement. With this in mind, each corporation should bring their unique business capabilities and assets to the partnership. Further, beyond growing the initiative internally by engaging additional colleagues and locations, it is also recommended to leverage corporate business relationships to engage other corporations (clients, partners and suppliers) in this initiative.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Very easy: JA’s global presence presents opportunities to connect to various locations.

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Very easy: With chapters across the United States and growing internationally, there are several geographies with which to engage and grow.

About the Organization

Website: www.mmc.com
Sector: Professional Services
Size (number of employees): 50,000-100,000
Headquarters: New York, USA

For Further Engagement

Contact name: Tara McTeague
Contact position: Programme Manager
Email: [email protected]

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