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About Bain

Our Social Impact

Our Social Impact

We partner with the most innovative and high-impact organizations to develop and scale transformative solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues.

Our Social Impact

Many nonprofits and coalitions have created effective change models, but they often lack the strategic consulting resources to help them reach their full potential. That’s where we come in, providing crucial support to help these organizations maximize their impact. In fact, we’ve committed to investing $1.1 billion in pro bono consulting work by 2025 to help them meet these challenges.

Our Focus Areas

Our Focus Areas

Our pro bono work is a unique opportunity to bring your talent, expertise, and insights to organizations tackling today’s most urgent social issues:

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Climate & Energy Transition

Accelerate the energy transition and build towards a more sustainable and equitable future

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Food Systems and Nature

We build sustainable, inclusive, and healthy food systems that protect our planet.

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Education

We galvanize inclusive upward mobility through education.

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Racial Equity and Social Justice

We address structural racism and other systems of oppression.

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Economic Development

We foster inclusive economic growth by leveraging markets and enterprise models​.

Partnerships

Partnerships

We are ​effecting change in all focus areas through our flagship collaborations.

Private Equity for Good

Discover Greater Share, an innovative philanthropic investment model that harnesses the expertise of the world’s top-performing private equity managers and high-impact NGOs to address complex global challenges.

Learn about Greater Share

People in Action

People in Action

Bainies worldwide dedicate their time and skills toward making a difference. Here are a few ways they contribute beyond their regular work:

Bainies can rally around issues they are passionate about by joining one of our global affiliation groups.

The Global Development Network (GDEV) is a grassroots network that connects and mobilizes hundreds of Bainies who share a passion for global development. The network holds knowledge-building events and offers opportunities for Bainies to support developing-market social enterprises.

Bain’s Green Teams leverage office-level “green communities”—Bainies who are passionate about reducing our environmental impact—to champion sustainability strategies. These employee-led teams identify and implement environmentally sustainable practices in their local offices and share best practices globally.

Bain is proud to share that we have led the industry as a 100% CarbonNeutral Company since 2012, offsetting all emissions, including client travel.

Another opportunity for Bainies to make a difference is through nonprofit casework. Through these "Extra 10%" projects, volunteer teams provide consulting advice to nonprofits and social enterprises.

We have led hundreds of Extra 10% cases over the past few years, providing unique professional development opportunities while positively impacting local communities.

Social impact externships provide our people with deep, hands-on experience working for a wide variety of NGOs, social enterprises and public sector organizations around the world.

We provide opportunities to work with our key partner organizations, such as Acumen, Endeavor, Ethiopian Agribusiness Accelerator Platform and KIPP. Externs can also work with alternative organizations based on the causes they are personally passionate about. Our externs support critical strategic projects and drive meaningful results—this past year we received a 100% Net Promoter Score from our extern partner organizations.

We embrace a grassroots tradition of fostering entrepreneurial community service, encouraging employees to rally for the causes they care most about.

Bain offers several opportunities to volunteer with our community partners, including office-wide Community Impact Days, which are hosted by most offices around the globe.

Let's Go Further

We’re bringing the full force of our talent and expertise to create a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive world.

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We help global leaders with their organization's most critical issues and opportunities. Together, we create enduring change and results