Charitable Services Group

The Goldman Sachs Public Service Program is a global initiative affording Goldman Sachs’ top performers a unique opportunity to serve the public and develop leadership skills in an entirely new environment. Public Service Program Fellows are selected and given paid leave for one year to serve at organizations aligned with the firm’s corporate engagement interests.

Goldman Sachs launched the Public Service Program in 2004. The program underscores our commitment to leadership and expands the platform for our people to be catalysts for change in their community. The Public Service Program is administered by the Goldman Sachs Office of Corporate Engagement.

Public Service Program Fellows serve at host organizations including 10,000 Women organizations.

The Public Service Program Fellows

Terence Lim
The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) is an international forum of business CEOs and chairpersons focused exclusively on corporate philanthropy. CECP’s mission is to lead the business community in raising the level and quality of corporate philanthropy. Terence’s PSP project is to create a more global perspective within corporate philanthropy measurement. A goal is to develop a common set of terms and valuations when companies measure their philanthropic activities to enable companies to track their performance and the implementation of such methods. Additionally, Terence is focusing on extending the CECP measurement framework to include assessing the impact of corporate community investment.

Dan Spadaro
Resources for the Future aims to improve environmental and natural resource policymaking worldwide through objective social science of the highest caliber. During his PSP Fellowship, Dan will work on The Global Adaptation Atlas Project as a Strategic Leader of Technology. The Global Adaptation Atlas project will use mapping technologies to capture information of climate change and resulting activities, enabling people to dynamically see the impact climate change is having in their area. Dan will coordinate the early design, development, and deployment of this tool that will help decision makers around the world better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change adaptation.

Tony Gaunt
CARE USA is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Tony’s PSP Fellowship is with the Access Africa Program, which focuses on expanding microfinance in Africa by developing technology solutions in banking that will increase access to commercial banking products, reducing costs and providing technology solutions that can be integrated into the Africa Financial Grid. Over the next decade in 39 sub-Saharan countries, CARE’s ACCESS AFRICA aspires to lift 30 million people – 70 percent of them women – and their families out of poverty by ensuring equitable access to a suite of basic financial services (savings, loans, insurance, and remittances).