The Corporate Community Partnership (CCP), launched in 2008, is Deutsche Bank’s flagship volunteering program. It offers our employees the resources and the opportunity to provide state-of-the-art assistance in developing and emerging market countries through targeted and results-driven missions focusing on issues of public concern.
Together with external partners and intermediaries specializing in social development, we organize ‘missions’ that provide high-quality knowledge and management expertise to projects that could benefit from professional consulting. With one of the most diverse and highly skilled workforces in the world, we know that we are ideally placed to foster social change and economic development in emerging market countries by means of volunteering.
The CCP program’s first and foremost objective is the delivery of high-quality pro-bono consulting services to the chosen projects. The program, which was launched in 2008, has focused on complex consulting projects for microfinance institutions. Accordingly, volunteers must have specific microfinance skills, international experience, and a recognized standing in their area of responsibility. The choice of CCP projects is made centrally, based on a catalog of detailed criteria which assesses both the potential for society and the employees.

Brandi Buechele was one of five Deutsche Bank corporate volunteers who came in early 2008 to assist the Indian microfinance institution Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank. The Deutsche Bank Derivative Operations Associate from New York was one of the first volunteers to join our flagship “Corporate Community Partnership” program. Their mission at Mann Deshi: to boost operating efficiency and proficiency.

For seven weeks, Brandi Buechele and four other corporate volunteers at Deutsche Bank contributed their expertise to Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, a women’s cooperative bank focused on microfinance loans. Putting her know-how to good use, Brandi helped design a partnership program which provides Mann Deshi the tools to create healthy, long-term relationships with vendors and clients. “Large corporations recognize the significant contributions that Mann Deshi makes, and want to be a part of its organization. We wanted to create a system which evaluates whether these relationships are the right fit for Mann Deshi and whether they provide a sustainable, healthy partnership,” she says. Since her return to New York, Brandi has become the volunteer coordinator for over 140 microfinance volunteers at Deutsche Bank.