Corporate engagement

WITS has provided consistent mentorship and corporate programming to Chicago elementary students for thirty-four years. WITS has provided corporate engagement opportunities for over fifty Chicago companies through weekly literacy-based mentorship programs to over thirty Chicago elementary schools.

89%

Eighty-nine percent of employees report increased job satisfaction when allowed to participate in a well-designed volunteer program.

93%

Ninety-three percent of WITS Volunteers are satisfied with WITS programming.

Join us: Reaching your corporate social responsibility goals

On April 24, WITS CEO Tena Latona will be joined by WITS Board Treasurer and Principal at KPMG LLP, Maria Arosteguy, and WITS Mentor and Vice President of Institutional Client Business at BlackRock, Phillip Williams, to discuss employee volunteer programs and corporate social responsibility goals.

Event Details


April 24 2024


Registration & Light Breakfast | 8:45-9:30am CST


Program | 9:30-10am CST


CNA Center, 151 N Franklin St, 2nd Floor


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MEET THE PANELISTS

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Maria Arosteguy

WITS Board Treasurer

Principal at KPMG

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Tena Latona

WITS CEO

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Phillip Williams

WITS Mentor

Vice President of Institutional

Client Business at BlackRock

THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY:

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“When it was time to return to in-person programming in September 2022 we knew we were doing so in a new corporate landscape...We knew our mission mattered to the thousands of mentors that work with our students. So, we made WITS a carrot for our corporations. Don’t bring people to the office to fiddle with Excel all day. Bring them to the office to engage with each other, with their broader community. That is what WITS has always been – but it is more relevant now than ever.”
WITS CEO, Tena Latona, in "the Retention Revolution" by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Erica Keswin

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WITS ON THE WEEKEND





STEAM at work

WITS on the Weekend (WoW) is a team-based reading and mentoring program that takes place for two hours on Saturday mornings from October to May. 3rd through 6th grade students meet their volunteer mentors at school to engage in team-building activities, recreational reading, and cooperative learning challenges focused on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) concepts. No previous STEAM experience is necessary. WoW volunteers commit to 16 select Saturdays from October-May, 10:00am-12:00pm.

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