Build

  • Partner with BLocal companies to create a Contractors College that will provide support to growing Baltimore-based contractors.

Year One Progress: Plan to participate in BLocal BUILD College in 2017.

Year Two Progress: No Update.

Year Three Progress: No Update.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

  • Work with local Baltimore organizations on projects that rebuild and clean up facilities within the community.

Year Two Progress: Continued to participate in events throughout the community to clean up and rebuild, including at the 6th Branch, the House of Ruth, and the Baltimore Zoo, and planting trees with The Baltimore Tree Trust.

Year Three Progress: Continued to participate in events throughout Baltimore City to clean up and rebuild, including efforts at the 6th Branch, Itineris, Living Classrooms and The Maryland Zoo, as well planting trees with Cylburn Arboretum.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

Hire

  • Assist in the career development of students at Ben Franklin High School at least four times per school year with several PwC instructors. This will include education around financial literacy, writing business plans, and how to apply for SBA loans or other types of credit.

Year One Progress: Completed and participated in many events at Ben Franklin High School, including Benfest and Tutormate and painted Bay-Brook Elementary, which feeds into Ben Franklin.

Benfest was an event where community members were invited for a fun family- oriented day of activities at Benjamin Franklin High School to strengthen the relationship between the school and community members.

At Tutormate, volunteers served as reading mentors for first-grade students starting in October 2016 using the innovative Tutormate platform. This is an exciting use of technology that allows reading mentors to work from their desk with a student to improve reading skills.

Year Three Progress: Completed and participated in events at Ben Franklin High School, including Benfest. We also participated in Tutormate at Brehms Lane Elementary School and volunteered to facilitate their field day activities. PwC will also be providing Living Classrooms significant funding and continue to volunteer to teach and work with their students.

We have continued to provide paid internships to under-represented students from local universities, as part of our START intern program.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

  • Work with the local Baltimore City Junior Achievement program by educating children around financial literacy within Elementary Schools and participating in events that support the overall program.

Year Two Progress: Progressed toward meeting this goal and participated in the following activities to date at Ben Franklin High School (BFHS): Attended monthly meetings of the BFHS School Family Council; sponsored a BFHS teacher/principal team, including a $1,250 donation, for the Aeron Chair Hockey Fundraiser; purchased warm-up gear and attire for the girls basketball team ($1,300);provided approximately $500 in funding to promote the BFHS Attendance Challenge program and recognition awards.

Additionally, PwC is in the process of coordinating with teachers at BFHS that have used our Financial Literacy materials, and we plan to again provide at least four teaching sessions before the end of the school year.  These are tentatively scheduled for spring 2019.

Year Three Progress: No Update.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

Buy

  • Continue to identify opportunities to rebid current non-Baltimore supply and service contracts to increase spending with businesses located in Baltimore City. Future vendor choices will be examined and strongly encouraged to go local when possible.

Year One Progress: Committed to choosing local businesses and vendors for supply and service contracts wherever possible. This would include any projects related to local infrastructure.

  • Continue to contract with and buy from Baltimore City vendors, especially in the Catering and Food Service category.

Year Two Progress: Committed to choosing local businesses and vendors for supply and service contracts wherever possible. This would include any projects related to local infrastructure. To date, we have used the following local vendors in the construction and build of our new Baltimore office: Rosendin Electric, Fidelity Engineering, Baltimore Fabrication, Cindell Drywall, Dimensional Marble and Tile Rockville, Selective Demolition, and Total Shading Solutions.

Year Three Progress: For 2018, PwC interacted with local businesses during our real estate project. Our General Contractor, Project Manager and moving company were all local entities. Electricians, plumbers, painters, janitors, glass companies, photographers and even the landscapers who helped us move to the top three floors of 100 E. Pratt Street were local. Even in deciding our location, staying in Baltimore was the option we chose.

All of our catering is also sourced locally. From trainings to client events, team lunches and our annual gala, we are proud to support local businesses.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

 

Direct Investment

  • Aim to increase our 2016 giving to local organizations, including the United Way of Central Maryland, by 20% from amounts raised in 2015.

Year One Progress: Increased total overall charitable contributions from the Baltimore office by 11 percent from prior year, with a 47 percent increase to the American Heart Association. PwC is still targeting to grow its giving to local organizations, including United Way and Mentor Zing.

  • Continue with our 2017 giving to local organizations in Baltimore.  Give back to the community by having two Community Service Days that will focus on serving local Baltimore organizations.

Year Two Progress: Increased our total overall charitable contributions from the Baltimore office to date 12 percent from the prior year.  We continue to have two Community Service Days that focus on serving local Baltimore organizations and have increased our participation from prior year.

Year Three Progress: Increased our participation in overall charitable giving by 10 percent from the prior year. Some of the organizations that we have contributed to over the last year include Family Tree, CollegeBound Foundation, KIPP Baltimore, Associated Catholic Charities, Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center, Port Discovery and Boy Scouts of America. The dollars donated increased from $155,000 to $231,000. We continue to have two formal Community Service Days that focusing on serving and working with local Baltimore City organizations. Additionally, in March of 2019, PwC hosted the Baltimore Chapter of the American Lung Association in their annual Fight For Air Climb, helping them raise $55,000 for the ALA.

Year Four Progress: No Update.

Year Five Progress: No Update.

About PwC

PwC’s Baltimore office employees almost 300 professionals. Working together, our local office supports a belief that “a healthy company needs a healthy community.” As such, among many other initiatives, we participate annually in a “Baltimore Office community service day” where our office shuts down for one full day and employees work on a variety of community service projects in Baltimore City.

PwC is a multinational professional services network. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries, 756 locations, with more than 200,000 people.

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Contact

Ashleigh Pierce, Associate
ashleigh.pierce@pwc.com

Website

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