How to create corporate partnerships for social change

Magic Breakfast and Quaker Oats have been partners for almost 15 years. Here’s how it happened – and how to create a win–win partnership for something you really care about. I can’t imagine any change activist campaign that wouldn’t benefit from a partner, an ally – so this is how to pitch for yours.

How to build a win–win

A story. Back in 2008 Magic Breakfast was a small charity, delivering food to schools in London, to help the too many school-age children arriving too hungry to learn. These were schools in areas of social deprivation, and family poverty was the main reason for this classroom hunger. I was looking for allies, corporate friends with the ability to help us. In my ‘why you ...

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