DSD is proud to partner with the Sage Foundation
The Sage Foundation unifies colleagues and partners in a global program of social change philanthropy, transforming lives to support economic stability and social equality. The Sage Foundation supports tens of thousands of people in local communities through more than 1,000 charities around the world.
In particular, the Sage Foundation takes action to increase opportunities for fulfillment among young people, women, and military veterans to drive innovation, enhancing access to education, workforce development and exposure to entrepreneurship.
Sage Foundation has been successfully operating its foundation for over 4 years. With the institutional knowledge and best practices to help our philanthropic program thrive, we are excited to join efforts. All DSD employees are encouraged to volunteer or fundraise for a charity close to their hearts.
Sage Foundation Programs
Sage Foundation is engaged in a range of development programs that provide support and funding to over 1000 non-profits.
Sage Foundation brings people together from around the world to help local communities and drive positive change. Sage Foundation unlocks the insight, expertise and passion of its people – empowering employees, customers and partners to solve the greatest challenges facing communities around the world.
Through our signature programs: Sage Empowering Women, Sage Inspiring Youth and Sage Serving Heroes, Sage Foundation’s action philanthropy model seeks to commit time, capability and investment to supporting charitable programs for young people, women and military veterans to help us deliver meaningful action in the communities in which we operate.
Sage Empowering Women
Together with our charity partners, Sage’s Empowering Women program helps create a more equal world in which women and girls can achieve their potential, become economically empowered and gain access to skills that ensure they are ready to start working.
Sage’s Empowering Women also supports a program aimed at the prevention of violence against women and girls. Using a free-to-use technology platform along with artificial intelligence, Sage Foundation partnered with AI for Good to develop a chatbot companion called rAInbow, a discreet and easily accessible bot companion aimed at helping women identify and seek support in situations of abuse. The chatbot has over 18,000 users that have had almost 1 million conversations with rAInbow, where women and men seek help from a free-to-use, non-judgmental source that is scalable and available to millions of people across the globe.
Sage Inspiring Youth
Sage Foundation seeks to inspire young people between the ages of 14 and 26 to see education as the key to creating a prosperous and fulfilled life. Young people everywhere should have the right to access education.
Across our communities, we work with charity partners to ensure as many young people as possible are provided access to education and tools to learn about STEM, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), financial literacy and the support needed to transition successfully into either the workplace or to start their own businesses.
Through Sage Inspiring Youth we have embarked on programs such as the Peter Jones Enterprise Tycoon program which helps young people prepare for a future in entrepreneurship. We have also rolled out Sage FutureMakers across five markets, a program where we teach young people how to use AI to solve social justice challenges in their local communities.
Sage Serving Heroes
Through our capability and product offerings, Sage Foundation is committed to supporting the military community and particularly veteran entrepreneurs. We have developed a product offer of Sage Business Cloud Accounting at a 100% discounted rate for 12 months in UK, USA, Canada & Australian markets.
In Australia the Soldier On program has launched a 3-month pilot career mentorship designed to help veterans thrive in their post-service career. The program forms part of Soldier On’s Pathways program which provides employment transition and education support to veterans and their families in collaboration with veteran-supportive organizations.
Sage Serving Heroes seeks to enable veterans and their family members to build confidence in their new role, develop their career and thrive.
In the UK the Veteran Tycoon Enterprise Program provides the skills, support and confidence needed to generate a business idea, create a business plan and trade the product or service.
The program is now delivered online through a range of innovative sessions that gives exposure to the world of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
A number of the program graduates have already started their own businesses with Alex from The Coffee Collective being one of them. Alex left the Army due to injuries he endured during his military service and was our guest at the Conservative Party Conference, where he had the opportunity to promote his coffee and tell his story.
