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William Blair Global Community Partners

Our signature employee-inspired program where select organizations receive catalytic financial and human capital.

A key component of William Blair's mission is to engage in our communities. Our employee-inspired philanthropic approach empowers our colleagues to actively invest in the communities where we live and work. Through employee engagement initiatives in each global office, our colleagues around the world are making a difference.

William Blair’s signature Global Community Partners program allows us to differentiate and invest in organizations through which our donations create catalytic change through significant and skills-based volunteer opportunities.

Employee-led committees and working groups drive the structure and strategy of William Blair’s global engagement initiatives. Financial empowerment for first and next-generational wealth earners, increasing access to capital for diverse entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities for youth are examples of the depth of our global Community Engagement programs.

Our 2025-2027 Global Community Partners

  • Goshen Valley Boys Ranch

    ATLANTA

    Provides hope and healing to foster youth and vulnerable families to cultivate personal healing and generational change.

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  • Studiezalen

    AMSTERDAM and THE HAGUE

    Creates an environment where children can learn and develop.

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  • Nexus Family Healing

    BALTIMORE

    Helps youth and families heal from trauma and complex mental health challenges.

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  • Play Ball Foundation

    BOSTON

    Provides equitable access and opportunities for youth to play sports.

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  • Veterans Bridge Home

    CHARLOTTE

    Advocates for service members, veterans, and their families, striving to create stronger communities one veteran at a time.

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  • Horizons for Youth

    CHICAGO

    Transforms children’s lives by providing targeted resources, rooted in education, in a trusting partnership with their families and communities.

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  • We Don’t Waste

    DENVER

    Works to reduce hunger and food waste in the Denver area by recovering quality, unused food from the food industry and delivering it to nonprofit partners.

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  • Geldlehrer e.V.

    FRANKFURT

    Promotes financial education for young people as they begin their careers.

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  • Action for Children

    LONDON

    Works closely with children and families to spot problems early, and offer extra help when it's needed.

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  • City Year

    LOS ANGELES

    Partners with schools to create learning environments where all students feel supported, build on their strengths and fully engage in their learning.

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  • First Generation Investors

    NEW YORK CITY

    Teaches high school students the power of investing, and brings classroom lessons to life by providing students with real money to invest.

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  • Partners Creating Community

    RADNOR

    Provides co-workers and volunteers with intellectual and developmental differences the transformational experience of doing meaningful work and mastering a craft.

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  • Urban Services YMCA in SF

    SAN FRANCISCO

    Provides programs that offer tools, resources and training interwoven with trauma-informed, equity-focused mental health and case management support every step of the way.

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  • Fairgate Farm

    STAMFORD

    Provides volunteer and educational opportunities to connect residents with their local food system, promote environmental stewardship, and build community cohesion.

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  • Addison Road Community Center

    SYDNEY

    Elevates human rights, arts & culture and sustainability.

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  • The Breathing Room

    WYNCOTE

    Provides care and support to families affected by cancer.

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  • Stöckenweid Foundation

    ZURICH

    Offers a wide range of housing, work, and training options for people aged 18 and over with intellectual, psychological, autistic, and/or physical disabilities.

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Ongoing and Past Partners

  • Bernies Book Bank
  • Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
  • Blessings in a Backpack
  • Breakthrough Atlanta
  • Bridges Baltimore
  • Boston Private Industry Council
  • Build NYC
  • By the Hand Club For Kids
  • CAL Nerds
  • Caring SG
  • Center for Urban Families
  • Chicago Childrens Choir
  • City Harvest, London
  • City Year, Los Angeles
  • Comer Childrens Hospital
  • Cool Girls
  • Cradles to Crayons
  • Crossroads
  • Envision
  • FeM Girls House
  • First Fruits Farm
  • Generation Citizen
  • Golden Apple
  • Greater Chicago Food Depository
  • Greenwood Project
  • GrowHaus
  • Growing Home
  • Hands On London
  • iMentor
  • KaBoom!
  • Kelly Brush Foundation
  • Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
  • MAPSCorps
  • MetroSquash
  • Midtown Education Foundation
  • Music Institute of Chicago
  • Nativity Preparatory School
  • New England Homes for the Deaf
  • One Goal
  • OzHarvest
  • Reading Partners
  • Refugee & Immigrant Transitions
  • R.O.C.K Real Options for City Kids
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities, Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities, United Kingdom
  • Safe Alliance
  • ShowerCare
  • Sozialwerk Pfarrer Sieber
  • St. Marks Community Education Program
  • Stiftung Kinderhilfe Sternschnuppe
  • Stitchting Steun Emma Kinderziekenhuis
  • The GrowHaus
  • Urban Initiatives
  • Whole Kids Foundation
  • YWCA Metro Chicago

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