Riggs Partners’ Teresa Coles participates in corporate lecture series on pro bono service

COLUMBIA, SC – Teresa Coles, Senior Partner and Brand Strategist at Riggs Partners, is featured in a new corporate lecture series on pro bono service. The series is sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation.

The lecture series consists of short videos highlighting innovations in corporate volunteering, featuring experts from the Corporate Institute’s Leadership Faculty, including Coles. The series is designed to be a resource for corporate social responsibility or employee volunteer leaders at organizations who want to learn about new trends and best practices as they manage and scale employee engagement and corporate volunteer programs.

Coles discusses how companies can engage marketing professionals to support the social sector through CreateAthons, or 24-hour pro bono marathons. Coles is the founder of CreateAthon, a pro bono program which began at Riggs Partners in Columbia, SC and has now become a 501c3 organization that promotes the movement in the marketing industry and beyond.

Other members of the Leadership Faculty who are featured in the video series include:

• Bea Boccalandro, President of VeraWorks, on Job Purposing. Job purposing, a new management practice of broadening the social mission of corporate jobs, can help drive up employee engagement at companies.
• Erin Dieterich, Director of Corporate Citizenship at NetSuite, on Hackathons. Learn how you can organize a pro bono Hackathon to engage key stakeholders and deliver social impact.
• Jared Chung, Founder of CareerVillage.org on virtual volunteering. Find out what virtual volunteering is, how the Internet is a powerful enabler of volunteering and how you can get involved.
• Cheryl Naja, Director of Pro Bono and Community Service at Alton & Bird, on how to manage pro bono projects for success. You’ll find out how to manage effective pro bono projects and how you can successfully match corporate talent to nonprofit needs.
• Greg Cotton, President of Cotton 7 Global Enterprises, on how to manage international corporate volunteer projects. Hear how a mid-size security and clean technology company has managed and navigated global volunteer projects for impact.

For the video series link, visit www.riggspartners.com/news. For more information about CreateAthon, visit www.createathon.org.