A highlight of GE’s
annual Global Leadership Meeting is the Chairman’s Leadership Award
ceremony hosted by Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO. This year,
business leaders from all over the world received awards
representing 14 different categories focused on performance,
strategy and initiatives, and leadership and culture.
Award winners
receive a crystal Chairman’s Leadership Award and designate a
charity of their choice to receive a GE grant. This year, in the
leadership and culture category Ben Heineman, Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary of GE, received an award for Public
Image...Corporate Controllership and Governance. He accepted the
award on behalf of his team, selecting the Pro Bono Partnership to
receive a $12,500 grant. The Pro Bono Partnership has a long history
of GE volunteer involvement and provides outstanding community
service.
Established in
1997, the Partnership was created with leadership from GE’s legal
staff. Robert Healing, GE Corporate Counsel, serves as Chairman of
the Board of the Pro Bono Partnership.
The Pro Bono
Partnership offers free legal services to more than 475 nonprofit
organizations serving disadvantaged populations in Westchester
County, NY, Fairfield County, CT and Northern New Jersey. These
organizations offer programs primarily in the following areas:
affordable housing, job training, neighborhood revitalization,
hunger, domestic violence, education, childcare, youth development
and HIV/AIDS.
The Partnership
helps these nonprofits by recruiting, supporting and super- vising a
corps of more than 530 attorneys from the suburban tri-state area’s
leading corporations and law firms. Working closely with Partnership
legal staff, volunteers provide assistance on a broad range of legal
matters such as community and economic development, corporate
structure and governance, real estate, employment law, and
regulatory compliance.
In addition to
direct legal assistance, the Partnership also offers numerous
educational workshops for managers and directors of nonprofit
organizations. Conducted in collaboration with banks, community
foundations, United Ways and other organizations, these workshops
teach nonprofit organizations how to respond proactively to
important legal issues and avoid crisis management.
For further
information about Pro Bono Partnership’s business
transactional pro bono program, please contact the Partnership
at (914) 328-0674.
