JUSTICE TRUTH TRANSPARENCY Our IMPACT Celebrating our 昀椀rst global IMPACTathon In 2021, we launched a pilot program designed One of the IMPACTathon participants, Sara Jones, Our nonpro昀椀t partners brought forward strategic 560+ to combine our longstanding commitment to Executive Director of the Great North Innocence capacity-building challenges to the IMPACTathon pro bono legal work with our roots in technology- Project, described the initiative as excellent. Jones and were each matched with a team of pro bono hours volunteered driven innovation. It was called the IMPACTathon, and her team work to free the wrongfully convicted consultants who possessed the functional-area a small hackathon-style event that brought and prevent future wrongful convictions from expertise needed to address them. Each team together teams of Thomson Reuters employees occurring in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South created customized, implementable, and sustainable $ , solutions for their nonpro昀椀t partner by the end of the 110 000+ to support nonpro昀椀t organizations by hacking Dakota. “The [IMPACTathon] environment, even away at their challenges and producing tangible virtually, felt collaborative, intentional, and open. day. In total, our pro bono consultants provided: worth in pro bono consulting deliverables in just 昀椀ve hours. In 2022, after the From both words and actions, it was clear that unexpectedly huge success of the pilot program, we the consultants we worked with were committed went global with the IMPACTathon, and the results to contributing to our mission in a way that was were even more impressive. substantive, meaningful to us, and useful in the More than 70 Thomson Reuters employees served short and long term,” she exclaimed. The Great as pro bono consultants, offering expertise in North Innocence Project has received pro bono 98% of pro bono consultants and nonpro昀椀t technology, operations, strategy, communications, support from Thomson Reuters employees the participants would recommend IMPACTathon past three years, with each deliverable building off marketing, sales, and human resources, to nonpro昀椀t organizations across the US, Canada, India, and the the last, to help the organization more effectively % of nonpro昀椀ts state their project deliverables achieve its goals. 79 will strengthen their infrastructure Philippines. All told, Thomson Reuters employees 3 committed the equivalent of over $110,000 in consulting hours to the initiative, helping the % of pro bono consultants were able to develop organizations develop necessary capacity-building 71 in new ways as a result of their project tools to enhance their own abilities in areas not typically supported by foundation grants and individual donors. One of the pro bono consultants, Claire Richardson, Enterprise Community Manager at Thomson Reuters, shared how the experience shaped her view of pro bono volunteering. “Before The STATS Project variety by function signing up for the IMPACTathon, I didn’t realize how Nonpro昀椀t challenges spanned numerous Operations Marketing my professional skills and expertise could make functional areas bringing Thomson PR Hear how one team used their professional skills to Reuters colleagues — from new employees a difference to a nonpro昀椀t organization. It was a rewarding experience to help the organization help Wellspring Living tackle their challenge. to tenured senior leaders — around the Sales develop an action plan to better communicate their globe together. Projects ranged from Strategy key initiatives to the public.” highly tactical to big-picture strategy, but each nonpro昀椀t left with a deliverable and Communications HR an action plan for implementation. Technology 3 Pro bono valuation is calculated by using the average hourly value for pro bono service ($195 per hour), Program Measurement as referenced by the Taproot Foundation. 11