Fundraising
At Bain, we have a grassroots tradition of fostering and inspiring entrepreneurial community service activities and fundraising events. Employees are encouraged to rally for the causes they care about. The Bain Cares program supports them by sponsoring and facilitating anything from local office fundraising events to global Bain fundraising campaigns.
Aid to Japan
Less than two weeks after Japan's twin earthquake-tsunami disaster, Bain campaigns had raised more than $120,000 in individual and corporate contributions. But Madrid volunteers wanted to do more for their colleagues across the world. Their idea: a 22-hour rolling worldwide campaign. Kicking off April 1 in Australia, 38 Bain offices staged a series of two-hour events, one after the other, from time zone to time zone. All had a Japanese theme—crane origami folding in Boston, a tour of Japanese art in San Francisco, karaoke in Madrid. By April 2, the total of Bain dollars destined for Japan had jumped to $280,000.
Bain Cares Fund
Collective giving in London
When Ben Dimson joined Bain's London office as a consultant in 2008, he saw an opportunity to revamp the office's charitable giving: Do it out of pretax payroll deductions and let employees who felt passionate about a cause rally their colleagues for their donations.
The result was The London Bain Cares Fund. Employees who contribute to the fund vote on where to allocate their contribution from a list of projects they nominate. These results earned Bain a National Payroll Giving Excellence Award in 2010. The £50,000-plus collected that year helped several organizations achieve their goals, including feeding 362 children for a year at a school in Malawi, setting up a sewing collective in Uganda and funding 10 years of education for a Nepalese orphan.
