Stewardship in action

The Power of Love is RSM’s annual stewardship campaign, where each office selects a local youth-focused charity to support with fundraising and volunteering opportunities. Offices host various fun events to encourage support from our people, family and friends, as well as team volunteering opportunities to maximize our impact on local communities. We amplify those efforts with an additional match from the RSM US Foundation, and the total impact is announced at The RSM Classic each November.

The Dollars for Doers program supports our people’s passions by magnifying their gifts of time to charitable organizations that support youth in their communities. Individual employees can earn up to a $1,000 grant each. Groups of RSM volunteers have limitless grant-earning potential; the more hours volunteered, the more grant dollars earned.

Since the program’s 2015 inception, the foundation has provided more than $2.3 million in grants for nearly 1,700 individuals and teams.

Launched in 2022, the Community Impact Fund was created to enhance the stewardship efforts of our passionate owners and employees by matching team fundraising efforts and by amplifying relationships with qualifying local charities through one-time grants. This application-based program boosts our commitment to our people by supporting charities that mean the most to them. Check out this Community Impact Fund highlight.

In 2019, RSM launched a national relationship with Junior Achievement USA. This relationship allows RSM to expand volunteer and financial support of Junior Achievement and allows our people to educate and empower youth through financial literacy. With more than $2.3 million in grant funding, RSM supported the development of the Take Stock in Your Future curriculum and the Stock Market Challenge simulation. The curriculum and simulation allow high school students to gain a deeper understanding of investing and the impact of current events on the stock market. As of 2022, we’re supporting programming in more than 27 local chapters in the U.S. and Canada. Through this relationship, RSM fosters confident, competent future business leaders equipped with real-world learning and skills.

Recognizing that many disadvantaged youth face an uncertain future, RSM expanded its longtime support of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) by investing in BGCA’s Workforce Readiness program. The program sets high school students up for success in the workforce through essential skill development and financial literacy workshops, career exploration, mentoring and work-based learning opportunities. With local chapter activation in Orange County, California; Chicago, Washington D.C.; Orlando, Florida; Baltimore, Charlotte, North Carolina and Dallas, RSM volunteers are equipping students with the skills they need to become tomorrow’s middle market leaders.

RSM's value of stewardship: acting responsibly calls for us to give back and support the next generation of business and technology professionals by backing U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. We do this through our University Match program and our University Impact Fund.

The University Match program, including personal donations from our people and a match from the foundation, has infused more than $3.6 million into 25 schools in the areas where our people live and work. The program has created longstanding funding to ensure students and faculty have the financial support needed to excel.

The University Impact Fund provides one-time grants to colleges and universities that influence communities where our people live and work. Funding supports programming, events and activities that help schools empower future professionals in technology, diversity and inclusion, and innovation. The funds provide students access to speakers, programs, networking and other resources. Since its inception in early 2020, the program has supported more than 70 programs, activities or events across the U.S. and Canada.

We are honored to support business and technology students across the U.S. and Canada by alleviating the financial burden of funding their educations so they can focus on achieving their goals—in school and beyond.

Our University Scholarship program helps build tomorrow’s middle market leaders through one-time campus-based awards that support business and technology students. Each college and university selects and awards winning students on behalf of the RSM US Foundation. Since 2019, we’ve helped more than 250 students pursue their degrees.

In addition to our University Scholarship program, the RSM US Foundation awards up to 31 student scholarships annually with more than $390,000 through our Power Your Education, First Generation, Power of Inclusion and Power Your Transition programs.