Accenture is teaming with Conexão, a Youth Business International network member, to help underprivileged youth receive professional training
and job search support in Brazil.
Skills to Succeed
Skills to Succeed is Accenture’s corporate citizenship initiative, which focuses on
advancing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in both mature and
emerging markets.
Corporate citizenship is fundamental to
Accenture’s character and the way we
run our company as a high-performance
business. It is anchored in our core values,
our Code of Business Ethics and, ultimately,
reflected by our people who live and work
in communities around the world.
Skills to Succeed draws on one of
Accenture’s core competencies—training
talent—to help address the need for skills
that open doors to employment around the
world. At the same time, Skills to Succeed
harnesses the powerful combination of
our financial support and the pro bono
contributions of time and Accenture
employee skills to make a difference in
our communities.
We launched Skills to Succeed in 2009 and
the following year we set an overarching
goal for our efforts: by 2015, Skills to
Succeed initiatives will equip 250,000
people around the world with skills to get
a job or build a business. By the end of
fiscal 2012, we had surpassed our goal by
equipping more than 320,000 people with
workplace and entrepreneurial skills. As a
result, we increased our commitment to
help 500,000 people globally by 2015.
We exceeded our original goal by working
with global and local nonprofit partners
that deliver measurable employment
and entrepreneurship outcomes at scale.
Additionally, our geographic programs
accelerated our progress by shaping
locally-relevant strategies in their markets.
500,000
By 2015, Skills to Succeed
initiatives will equip 500,000
people around the world with
the skills to get a job or build
a business
In 2010, Accenture and the Accenture
Foundations committed to contribute
more than US$100 million by the end of
2013 to support our corporate citizenship
efforts, through global and local giving, as
well as pro bono contributions of time and
Accenture employee skills. Since then, we
have contributed cash and in-kind support
equivalent to $US98 million.
Our Global Impact
At the heart of Skills to Succeed is the
measurable impact we have achieved
through our long-term relationships
with strategic partners—by increasing
marketplace competitiveness and economic
resilience, building sustainable businesses
and creating employment opportunities.
Today, we have more than 200
collaborative initiatives with strategic
partners worldwide. A few highlights
include:
• Working with Junior Achievement and
Junior Achievement Young Enterprise
to equip young people with workplace
and entrepreneurial skills in more than
19 countries.
• Teaming with Plan International
to provide training and career
opportunities to approximately 7,100
underprivileged young people in
Thailand and Indonesia in industries
such as information technology,
customer relations, business process
outsourcing and electronic repair.
• Helping Save the Children provide
approximately 7,000 disadvantaged and
at-risk young people in Egypt, Indonesia
and the Philippines with vocational and
life skills that assist them in securing
lasting employment.
Accenture is supporting Save the Children to help provide Chinese students with training in IT skills.
• Working with Youth Business
International to equip the organization’s
global network of nonprofit affiliates
– such as Conexão in Brazil – with
improved tools, funding, mentoring and
training to help 33,500 disadvantaged
young people around the world become
thriving entrepreneurs.
Looking ahead, we will continue to build
out our strategy with a focus on driving
impact and achieving scale through the
use of technology and collaboration. Our
vision is to maintain our focus on Skills
to Succeed, accelerating, strengthening
and deepening impact, as we increase
shared value for Accenture, clients and the
community.
“Skills are a driver of economic
empowerment for individuals and
communities alike, and the need
is greater than ever to have the
right skills to build capabilities and
confidence that will open doors to
employment across both mature and
emerging markets. Skills to Succeed
helps people develop those skills so
they can get jobs, build businesses and
contribute to their communities.”
- Jill Huntley, Managing Director –
Global Corporate Citizenship, Accenture
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About Accenture
Accenture is a global management
consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with approximately
275,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries. Combining
unparalleled experience, comprehensive
capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research
on the world’s most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses
and governments. The company generated
net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the
fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home
page is www.accenture.com.
Accenture is working with Plan International in Vietnam to help develop career and training
opportunities for underprivileged youth.
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