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Speaker 1: Now all sectors are adjusting to what a Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: conversation next about what it could mean for philanthropy. This

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Speaker 1: is Goldman Sacks is holding its investment competition today, where

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Speaker 1: it's analysts around the world get to pitch for a

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars prize tonight to a

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Speaker 1: charity of their choice. We have Asahi Pompey with us

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Speaker 1: in studio, whose global head of Corporate Engagement and President

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Speaker 1: of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. Good morning, Sah. He lovely

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Speaker 1: to have you with us in studio. I do wonder

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Speaker 1: what the election results, what that means for how you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about next year. A lot of the policies espoused

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Speaker 1: by the incoming president would be perhaps rolling back areas

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Speaker 1: of government where perhaps philanthropy could be stepping in. What

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Speaker 1: are you thinking about in terms of what could change

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Speaker 1: next year?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'd like to start off by just saying that,

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Speaker 2: you know, I echo the words of our CEO, David

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Speaker 2: Solomon in congratulating President elect Trump on his victory, and

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Speaker 2: we look forward to working with the new administration on

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Speaker 2: what we hope will be strong policies for economic growth.

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Speaker 2: I think, like everybody else, we're going to be sort

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Speaker 2: of watching what the impact will be on markets and

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Speaker 2: policies so we can best serve our clients. As I

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Speaker 2: think about the philanthropic landscape, I'd say a couple of things.

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Speaker 2: One is, as we think about cultivating talent, we think

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Speaker 2: about what that talent feels about the impact of Goldman,

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Speaker 2: Sachs and Frankly companies where they work in communities. We

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Speaker 2: know that seventy five percent of gen Z and millennials

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Speaker 2: say that an organization's community engagement their social impact is

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Speaker 2: absolutely critical to where they choose to work. Secondly, we

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Speaker 2: know that the overall job satisfaction, eighty six percent of

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Speaker 2: gen Z say that their sense of purpose, whether they

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Speaker 2: have a sense of purpose at work, increases not only

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Speaker 2: their job satisfaction but their personal well being. So as

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Speaker 2: you think about that backdrop of any company, you have

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Speaker 2: to make sure that you're engaged in activities that's going

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Speaker 2: to feed that. And one of the great things that

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Speaker 2: we're doing today is that we're have this competition of

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Speaker 2: our analysts and they'll be able to have their hands

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Speaker 2: on millions of philanthropic dollars and where those dollars go.

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Speaker 2: And this is the ninth year of the competition.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds really interesting. I want to get onto

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Speaker 3: that in just a minute, but just a further kind

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Speaker 3: of follow up question, given the importance of the Trump

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Speaker 3: White House, you know, Goldman Sachs is one Million Black

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Speaker 3: Women Initiative, the Black and Business Education Program, and a

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Speaker 3: raft of other Golden Sachs and Golden Sachs Foundation programs.

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Speaker 3: They are putting literally billions of dollars over many, many

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Speaker 3: years into addressing racial and gender inequality, for example. Do

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Speaker 2: I mean, when we launched our one Million Black Women Initiative,

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Speaker 2: it's two things. It's ten billion of investment capital and

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Speaker 2: one hundred million of philanthropic capital. What's important to note,

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Speaker 2: I think is one, in terms of our Black and

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Speaker 2: Business Program, it is open to all individuals who are

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Speaker 2: entrepreneurs that are growth oriented and solopreneurs looking to become entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 2: And so there's a wide spectrum of individuals that can

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Speaker 2: of that program. One two. It's really not about DII

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Speaker 2: So that program is about feeding those small businesses with

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Speaker 2: And here's a couple of things I would underscore when

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Speaker 1: And do you think that that economic case then shields

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Speaker 2: I think it does a couple of things. One is,

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Speaker 2: I think looking at the eligibility criteria of the programs

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Speaker 2: I think that that trifecta of those things I think

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Speaker 3: What do you think the young people and the analysts

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Speaker 3: And also how did they actually win that two hundred

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a great question, Caroline, because if you

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Speaker 2: what we've done with this program is we've really democratized

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Speaker 2: and the pitch today is to our CEO, David Solomon

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Speaker 2: So it is literally a competition on stage where they

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Speaker 2: To sure I want to highlight the UK team in particular,

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Speaker 2: they're pitching for an organization called screen Share. It's an

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think that sounds yeah, but really nice to

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Speaker 2: Three things I would say. One is we want to

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Speaker 2: So this is a chance for the analyst to really

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Speaker 2: you know, you're one year at Goldman Sachs and you're

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Speaker 2: What's interesting to note is that when we look at

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Speaker 2: it's improved their leadership and strategic development skills, it's improved

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think that's great. The other UK issue, though,

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Speaker 3: Are you in favor of ethnicity pay gap reporting? You know?

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Speaker 2: I'm actually the global sponsor of the Women's network at

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Speaker 2: we think that there's more work to do, but I'd

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Speaker 2: really focus there because that's about what an organization's doing

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Speaker 1: Okay Asa, great to have you with us in studio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning. That's

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Speaker 1: Sosai Pompey, Global head of Corporate Engagement and Presents of

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Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs Foundation.