Bea Boccalandro helps businesses design, manage, and evaluate their giving and volunteering programs. She is faculty in corporate-community involvement at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and at Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, and consultant/trainer for the Points of Light & Hands On Network.
Boccalandro has helped Levi Strauss & Company develop a global strategy for its employee giving and volunteering program; Allstate redesign its employee volunteer program; Aetna redesign its employee giving and volunteer program into a highly strategic version that won the 2005 Award for Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Programs; SunPower (a global provider of large-scale solar power systems) design their first employee volunteer program; and Fannie Mae evaluate its award-winning employee volunteer program.
Boccalandro has also conducted research on company employee giving and volunteering practices, including leading the effort, sponsored by Bank of America, to develop the Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Giving Programs and to benchmark the Fortune 500 companies.