Overview

Vision

Corporate America will lead the nation in engaging volunteers to deliver high-impact service and volunteer leadership resulting in stronger communities, neighborhoods, schools and nonprofits around the country.

Mission

Focused on fully leveraging the power of employee volunteers, the Corporate Service Council leads and inspires Corporate America to increase civic impact through innovation, best practice sharing and the application of human capital and financial resources.

Purpose

The Corporate Service Council:

• Serves as the voice of the U.S. and Global Corporate volunteerism through thought leadership and advocacy;
• Creates enhanced mechanisms and infrastructure for employee volunteer activation to achieve demonstrable impact;
• Provides discussion and networking opportunities for companies to share best practices and tools to purposefully increase effective corporate engagement;
• Generates CEO visibility related to corporate volunteerism to strengthen the call to action; and
• Moves beyond traditional views of CSR by linking vision and brand strategy to employee engagement and community involvement.

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For more information about the Corporate Service Council, contact Anna Snoeyenbos.

Council Members

Corporate Service Council Company Roster

Click here to print a current list of Corporate Service Council member companies.

Meet The Chair

Cliff Burrows

president, Americas

As president, Americas, Cliff Burrows is responsible for all of Starbucks operations United States, Canada, Mexico and Latin America. It is his mission to ensure that the Starbucks Experience is delivered to customers and partners (employees), combining a passion for the best quality coffee, served in a superb in-store environment. Cliff is known for his demonstrated track record of strong leadership and a commitment to Starbucks Guiding Principles.

Prior to Cliff’s expanded role, he was president of Starbucks Coffee U.S. from March 2008-October 2011. Under his leadership, the U.S. business set records across almost every measure of sales and customer experience – achieving performance levels that are especially noteworthy for company in business more than 40 years.

Cliff joined Starbucks in 2001 as managing director of the United Kingdom. In April 2006, Cliff was named president for Starbucks Coffee EMEA B.V. and led the region as it grew to more than 1,350 stores across 24 countries.

Prior to joining Starbucks, Cliff was managing director for Habitat, the home furnishings company, where he was responsible for the company’s UK business and European retail and franchises.  During his 19 year career with Habitat, Cliff spent seven years working for Heals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Habitat.  Cliff started his career with Littlewoods plc, where he was a management trainee.

Cliff was raised in Zambia and completed his education in the U.K. He is married, with two daughters and lives in Seattle.

Read the press release: Points of Light names Starbucks Executive Chair of Corporate Service Council.