Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate and investment group with core expertise in shaping cities by creating strong and connected communities. With more than 60 years in the business, they believe in finding better ways to build places that will leave a positive legacy, putting a focus on safety, innovation and sustainability.
The context
Laura Caporossi, External Partnerships & Programme Manager at Lendlease, has spent the last 8 years managing the company’s internal regional programmes, enriching employees with meaningful experiences based around the company’s pillars of education, diversity & inclusion and sustainability.
Building strong and connected communities has always been at the heart of their business, making serving them a key component of their efforts as a company. For that reason, their employee volunteering and giving programme enables their dispersed team to get out into the communities where they are located and make a difference at the local level.
The challenge
Lendlease was founded with a strong internal culture of looking after their employees and an external focus on supporting their communities - both of which feed their need for a compelling social impact programme. But with a team spread across multiple regions, they needed a better way to facilitate this programme that would engage employees within their local communities.
With busy schedules, varied interests and remote working, Lendlease realised it was crucial to bring more flexibility into their programme if they wanted to maximise participation. From sourcing personalised activities to offering adaptable scheduling, there was a lot to consider if they wanted to launch the Community Week initiative that they had in mind.
Their main challenges were to:
—Laura Caporossi, External Partnerships & Programme Manager
Lendlease
A flexible programme adapted to employee tastes through the Benevity platform
With the help of Benevity’s database of international nonprofits, Lendlease is able to provide compelling volunteering experiences throughout their Community Week that account for employee locations, languages, preferred causes and scheduling.
A team spread across regions connected in one space
Despite the physical distance, employees are able to connect through Benevity’s user-friendly dashboard to spur on more Community Week engagement and celebrate the team’s joint efforts.
Instant impact reporting to inspire further engagement
Lendlease captures the attention of stakeholders and motivates teams to contribute more by measuring personal and company-wide impact through the Benevity platform, then sharing their results internally and externally.
—Laura Caporossi, External Partnerships & Programme Manager
Lendlease
The results