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Entrepreneurs Foundation: Maximizing Your Community Benefit Program Through Marketing
Meg GarlinghouseYahoo! for Good
September 12, 2007
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Yahoo! for Good
Strategy: Leverage our biggest assets to make a difference in the world:
• 500mm community of users• Products/Services• Employees
Focus: Environment
Background: 9/11 Resources
Unintended Benefits: Customer engagement (brand) Product engagement (loyalty) Employee engagement (recruitment/retention) Executive endorsement Sustainable programs
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Yahoo! for Good: Focusing on best assets – Why?
Our core competency: Creating communities Online marketing Designing compelling sites Keeping users engaged
Not our core competency: Running a nonprofit Writing checks
What this means: Philanthropy is integrated into everything we do – not a
separate initiative Yahoo! for Good reports into Global Brand Marketing Thinking differently about success metrics
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Examples of our community making a difference
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Yahoo! and Green: a 360 approach
Global
Operations
Employees
Brand
Product
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Yahoo! Answers: Knowledge and Social Impact
“What are some simple steps or creative ideas that people can
take at home and work to combat global warming?”
“What can we do to help teen girls build self-esteem,
overcome insecurities and form supportive relationships?”
“If you were given $1,000 to change the life of a perfect stranger, what would you
do?”
“What are the key ingredients to a great
game show host?”
“What do you believe the monster in 'Lost'
really is?”
“What can we do to make poverty history?”
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Examples of Questions asked on Yahoo! Answers
“What do you think we should do to improve
health care in America?”
“How do we get more people engaged in the democratic process?”
“How can the human race survive the next
hundred years?”
“What do you think it will take to reverse the effects of global climate change?”
“What would you do to stop wasteful government
spending in Washington?”
“What was the most under-reported story of 2006 and what
makes it so important?”
“What has locked you into making the same relationship mistakes again and again?”
“What are you doing to empower women in your community?"
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Voter Registration campaign – over 1mm
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Yahoo! and Disaster Relief
9/11: $30mm
Tsunami: $16mm
Hurricane Katrina: $60mm
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Y! for Good Scrum program, Hackers with Heart
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High touch philanthropy trend
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Lessons Learned
Limited resources can sometimes be an asset; it forces use to be strategic, creative and resourcefulFocusBe AuthenticFocusGet buy-in from throughout the companyFocusThink differentWho you report into matters