Strategy Challenge brings together the firm’s rising talent to support non-profits to solve strategic challenges.

Each year, over ten weeks, Morgan Stanley partners with Pilotlight to pair teams of top-performing employees with charity leadership teams. The goal of the collaboration is to develop clear recommendations which address the charities’ strategic challenges.

These recommendations are critical to bringing meaningful impact and long-term change to the charities, enabling them to expand or scale their offering to communities, as well as enhance efficiency and effectiveness through updated business and programme models.

More than 250 Morgan Stanley’s employees have donated a total of more than 20,500 hours, leveraging their business skills to help over 100 charities overcome their most difficult and mission-critical strategic challenges.

The partnership has helped transform a range of charities tackling social disadvantage across the UK, including Access Sport, Centre Point, Magic Breakfast, Marie Curie, Power2, Prince's Trust, Rays of Sunshine, Shelter, The Children's Society, Think Forward, and Whizz-Kidz.

Emma Tamblingson, Head of Community Affairs at Morgan Stanley commented:

"Through our work with Pilotlight, we have been able to support our charity partners further by providing the business skills, knowledge and expertise they need to help them achieve their goals.”

Brad Bilgore, a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, said of participating in the Pilotlight 360 programme:

“Being a Pilotlighter has made me understand just how difficult it can be to be an effective charity. There is so much dedication and commitment required that many smaller charities struggle to just keep their organisation running. They need help from objective, experienced people like us Pilotlighters.”