Case Study: Jumpstart's Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility is important for our society and there are many businesses that engage in strategic plans to improve social problems within the communities. Jumpstart is one of those businesses. A non-profit organization, Jumpstart aims to improve education across the United States by focusing on early childhood education, primarily children aged 3 to 5 years. By exposing children to educational activities at an early age, Jumpstart believes they will grow to love learning and perform better in their future education. Jumpstart has initiated numerous campaigns to expand their missions and raise funds for their programs.

Shontell Burch, Shon, is a team leader for this year’s Jumpstart program at DePaul University. This is Shon’s fourth and final year at Jumpstart and first year as being a team leader. She is a communications major and believes strongly in the impact early childhood education has on a child’s future. Shon will be graduating this year and will go on to obtain her Master’s Degree in early childhood education. She hopes to work with learning centers in low-resourced

She also believes these words should encourage corporations to work with their communities by including them in their campaigns and initiatives instead of moving forward without community involvement. These words should be taken as a model of how businesses should be run and how the employees should act on their mission statement, rather than just “posting it on their website and forgetting about it”. Shon can absolutely state Jumpstart’s mission statement which is, “Working toward the day every child in America enters preschool prepared to succeed”. She believes this mission statement helps to view Jumpstart as a socially responsible