Our Aspiration
Our Aspiration
- We will deliver on our 2015 commitment to invest $1.1 billion in pro bono consulting by 2025, with a focus on education, environment, economic development, and racial equity and social justice.
In addition to our work with corporate clients, Bain partners with leading social pioneers on a pro bono basis to develop and scale transformative solutions to address the world’s most important challenges.
Our Progress
invested in pro bono consulting from 2015-2021
nonprofit pro bono clients from 2015-2021
In 2021, we invested over $110 million in pro bono consulting, bringing our total investment since 2015 to $600 million. We are on track to invest over $160 million in 2022 and to fulfill our entire commitment by 2025.
Since making our $1.1 billion commitment, we have partnered with 300+ nonprofit clients across our four pillars: Education, Economic Development, Environment and Racial Equity & Social Justice. In recent years, we have increasingly invested our pro bono resources to design, mobilize, and implement innovative cross-sector partnerships and multi-stakeholder coalitions that can truly change systems – particularly in areas such as climate action, food systems, career-connected learning, wealth and health equity.
Our Client Work
Reinventing the tuna supply chain
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global conservation NGO. Bain worked with TNC’s Large Scale Fisheries division, which seeks to address, among other things, environmental and social sustainability in tuna fishing and processing in the Pacific Islands. Through a series of cases, Bain helped TNC develop, design, and launch Pacific Island Tuna – a joint venture between TNC and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Most recently, Bain facilitated a commercial agreement between Pacific Island Tuna and Walmart to bring more sustainable and transparent canned tuna to store shelves through Walmart’s Great Value private label. This initiative represents a revolutionary step towards creating the necessary incentives and economics to ensure greater environmental and social outcomes. It also serves as a powerful model for other industries to replicate.
Transforming the dairy industry in East Africa
Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA) is a 15 to 20-year public-private partnership founded by the Global Dairy Platform, Land O’Lakes Venture37 and Bain. DNA takes a market-led, systems approach, where farmer-allied dairy processors are the linchpins for accelerating transformation, addressing issues of nutritional security, livelihoods and economic growth while also delivering reductions in GHG emission intensity. After a successful pilot in Tanzania from 2020-21, we are now scaling our work as part of the Tanzania Inclusive Processor-Producer Partnerships in Dairy (TI3P) Program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and implemented in partnership with the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank. DNA was also launched in Kenya in 2021 and there are plans for subsequent scaling in Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Closing the racial wealth gap in the U.S.
OneTen is a coalition of 50+ Fortune 100 companies committed to hiring, up/re-skilling, and promoting 1M Black individuals over the next 10 years. Bain is a founding partner and worked directly with the CEO and board of directors – helping them launch the non-profit, recruit members, assess technology infrastructure, and refine communications and logistics. With the support of Bain, OneTen grew to 60 member companies, 50 talent developers, 17,000 hires, and 4,000 promotions by the end of its first year – a significant first step toward OneTen’s long-term mission.
Expanding access to career-connected learning
Career Connect Washington (CCW) is a public-private coalition working to ensure that all young people in the state of Washington have access to high-quality academic and work-based experiences. Bain first engaged with CCW five years ago to help create the statewide vision for career-connected learning – an approach to education that combines classroom instruction with relevant, real-world experience. In the time since, we have continued to support CCW's growth and most recently helped create a plan to ensure CCW’s efforts will sustain into the future. Due in part to Bain’s support over the years, CCW recently won a highly competitive federal grant that will enable the coalition to significantly expand the number of students benefitting from their career-connected programs.
Reinventing the tuna supply chain
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global conservation NGO. Bain worked with TNC’s Large Scale Fisheries division, which seeks to address, among other things, environmental and social sustainability in tuna fishing and processing in the Pacific Islands. Through a series of cases, Bain helped TNC develop, design, and launch Pacific Island Tuna – a joint venture between TNC and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Most recently, Bain facilitated a commercial agreement between Pacific Island Tuna and Walmart to bring more sustainable and transparent canned tuna to store shelves through Walmart’s Great Value private label. This initiative represents a revolutionary step towards creating the necessary incentives and economics to ensure greater environmental and social outcomes. It also serves as a powerful model for other industries to replicate.
Transforming the dairy industry in East Africa
Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA) is a 15 to 20-year public-private partnership founded by the Global Dairy Platform, Land O’Lakes Venture37 and Bain. DNA takes a market-led, systems approach, where farmer-allied dairy processors are the linchpins for accelerating transformation, addressing issues of nutritional security, livelihoods and economic growth while also delivering reductions in GHG emission intensity. After a successful pilot in Tanzania from 2020-21, we are now scaling our work as part of the Tanzania Inclusive Processor-Producer Partnerships in Dairy (TI3P) Program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and implemented in partnership with the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank. DNA was also launched in Kenya in 2021 and there are plans for subsequent scaling in Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Closing the racial wealth gap in the U.S.
OneTen is a coalition of 50+ Fortune 100 companies committed to hiring, up/re-skilling, and promoting 1M Black individuals over the next 10 years. Bain is a founding partner and worked directly with the CEO and board of directors – helping them launch the non-profit, recruit members, assess technology infrastructure, and refine communications and logistics. With the support of Bain, OneTen grew to 60 member companies, 50 talent developers, 17,000 hires, and 4,000 promotions by the end of its first year – a significant first step toward OneTen’s long-term mission.
Expanding access to career-connected learning
Career Connect Washington (CCW) is a public-private coalition working to ensure that all young people in the state of Washington have access to high-quality academic and work-based experiences. Bain first engaged with CCW five years ago to help create the statewide vision for career-connected learning – an approach to education that combines classroom instruction with relevant, real-world experience. In the time since, we have continued to support CCW's growth and most recently helped create a plan to ensure CCW’s efforts will sustain into the future. Due in part to Bain’s support over the years, CCW recently won a highly competitive federal grant that will enable the coalition to significantly expand the number of students benefitting from their career-connected programs.