Corporate Volunteering
We encourage our employees to do good – whether in a team with other colleagues or as an individual during their spare time or sabbatical.
Companies for Munich
To promote giving back to the community, several Munich companies joined together in November 2009 to form a corporate volunteering network. Based on an idea by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, "Companies for Munich" aims to share experience and bundle relevant competencies. In addition, the network will focus on joint volunteer activities.
Since then, representatives from over 20 well-known companies headquartered in Munich have joined the network – among them are BMW, BayernLB, Deutsche Bank, Develey, E.ON Energie, GlaxoSmithKline Deutschland, Hewlett Packard, Hoffmann Gastronomie & Catering, Microsoft Deutschland, MSD, Oracle, Siemens, Telefónica O2 Germany, Timberland and Wrigley.
Besides holding lectures on relevant topics, the company representatives have already put on a Social Day. The next major event is planned for June 2011 in honor of the "European Year of Volunteering", to be held in conjunction with the Sozialreferat (Dept. of Social Affairs) of the City of Munich. This corporate network has also conducted a study on the importance of corporate volunteering for Munich companies. A summary of the survey results can be found on the network's website.
For more information, please go to:
http://www.unternehmen-fuer-muenchen.de/
"Year of Care" - a tutoring project for disadvantaged pupils
"Year of Care" is a volunteering initiative of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants that was launched in cooperation with ghettokids – Soziale Projekte e.V., a charitable organization that helps disadvantaged children and adolescents and the Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum München Nord, a special school in the northern part of Munich. Every Tuesday morning, four employees of the Roland Berger Roland Berger knowledge and technology services unit .bits make their way to the school to tutor some of the pupils. Over the past year, more than 20 colleagues were involved in this tutoring project. Besides this regular weekly lessons to the young students in their classrooms a bundle of additional activities take place. Some tutors also spend their free time together with the kids. In addition the IT managers donated and installed a computer for the school library. One researcher gave the schoolchildren training in Excel to show them how to manage the library stocks and organize the lending of books.
In this short movie you can get an impression of our tutoring project and a one day's job application training that was coached with support from the HR Department.
Watch the video.
For more information about "ghettokids – Soziale Projekte e.V." have a look at : www.ghettokids.org
School project: "Making business an experience"
As part of our involvement with the Initiativkreis Ruhrgebiet - an initiative to boost Germany's Ruhr region - a consultant team from Düsseldorf conducted a case study project under the motto "Making business an experience". The project was carried out in February 2008 with students in their last year at the Schiller Gymnasium (high school) in Bochum. This is the fourth time that Roland Berger consultants have sought to make management consulting an experience for schoolchildren in the Ruhr region. For this project, the students took on the role of a consultant to identify development opportunities for an oil company in the German gas station market. Four groups of students participated, and after two weeks presented their results to a panel of "real" consultants. Our colleagues provided feedback and commented on the case solutions from their point of view. Overall, the suggested solutions were well thought-out and the students enjoyed the exercise. "Brainstorming ideas was the most fun," said one girl. Another female student had to cope with some stage fright when presenting the results. This project acquainted the students with the business world and illustrated the work of a strategy consultants.
