Helping SMBs Thrive
Sage aims to transform the way people think and work by leveraging AI and machine learning to help organizations manage money and people. Every day, from its Atlanta headquarters and around the world, 11,000 colleagues and partners work with millions of businesses in countless industries pursuing one singular goal: to knock down barriers so everyone can thrive.
The company’s acclaimed portfolio of solutions helps small and medium-sized businesses manage accounting, finance, HR, and payroll – in the cloud, on-premise, or both—offering the freedom to work with mobility. With Sage, organizations across industries stay on top of their finances, empower their people, and unleash their power to grow.
Knocking Down Barriers to Make a Difference
For decades, Sage has worked alongside small and medium-sized businesses, gaining a deeper understanding of the time-consuming complexities they run up against. Sage remains 100% focused on helping a business run smoothly – through streamlined operations, smarter insights, and faster decisions. That helps companies be more resilient and productive.
But Sage also recognizes that there’s much more at stake – because some barriers go far beyond cloud technology and artificial intelligence. The Sage mission and mandate is to create equal opportunities that create a level playing field for all.
- Tackling digital inequality – Data empowers people across the globe to run businesses, develop skills, and thrive. Sage is committed to breaking down barriers and ensuring everyone has equal opportunities to access life-changing data and technology.
- Overcoming economic inequality – Starting or growing a business promotes economic stability, wealth creation, and well-being, but opportunities for success are not always equal. Sage is dedicated to helping underrepresented communities start successful businesses.
- Addressing the Climate Crisis – To help tackle the climate crisis and protect our planet, we’re reducing our own environmental impact and supporting small and medium-sized businesses as they do the same.
- Supporting communities globally – Sage employees have contributed nearly 150,000 volunteer days to help causes they care about the most, build routes into education, and support work readiness for young people and women. Further, the company aims to raise more than $5 million for nonprofits across the world by 2030.
Moving forward, Sage aims to continue to work at the intersection of business excellence and responsible business by blending technology, talent, time, and resources to give individuals, SMBs, and the planet greater opportunities to thrive.
Keeping Firm Commitments
“In every area of our business, we seek to embody the change we want to see in the world,” said Steve Hare, Sage’s chief executive officer. “From our perspective, diversity, equity, and inclusion are about providing the right opportunities and creating a culture in which everyone feels valued and empowered to thrive.
“We recognize that we are at the start of our journey and the issues we must tackle are complex. Overcoming these challenges will require us not just to listen, but to really hear what we are being told, and then be completely open and honest about where we are on the journey.
“Only then can we knock down the barriers so everyone can thrive and build a truly inclusive culture where we all feel we belong.”
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS AND BUILD OPPORTUNITIES
Anyone can talk the talk. At Sage, we’re walking the walk, too, through the efforts of the Sage Foundation, which supports charities and nonprofits that are meaningful to our people and our communities. Here are just a few of the initiatives we’ve proudly undertaken, both here in Georgia and across the country.
- The Grow Program for Leadership and Mentoring – Sage created this program to strategically match nonprofit leaders with Sage executives for mentoring and guidance. Following months of close collaboration, each leader emerges with new tools and skills to drive their organization’s social impact and improve the leader’s own capacity and leadership skills. The 2024 cohort includes four Metro Atlanta nonprofits: 21st Century Leaders, East Atlanta Kids Club, VOX ATL, and YELLS.
- Knocking Down Barriers with The BOSS Network – Sage, in partnership with The BOSS Network, launched the Sage “Invest in Progress” grant to support Black women entrepreneurs in their first five years of business. Since 2022, the “Invest in Progress” grant awards $10,000 in funding to 25 Black women entrepreneurs to help them successfully grow their business. The Invest in Progress grants are the heart of Sage’s three-year, $1.5 million commitment to support the BOSS Impact Fund, which raises investment funding for hundreds of Black women-led businesses. Each grant includes a 12-month program of entrepreneurial mentorship, coaching, connections, and education focused on knocking down barriers to business success and guiding these businesswomen to reach their full potential.
- Financial Business Mentor Program Empowers Atlanta’s Black Entrepreneurs – Sage has also partnered with The BOSS Network and Swoop to create Pathways to Success, a training and mentorship program for 150 Black women entrepreneurs. The program features a structured series of trainings and roundtables with tactical advice to overcome financial and capital-raising challenges. Participants received one year of training access and a three-year membership to The BOSS Network.
- Partnership with Morehouse College – In 2023, Sage partnered with Morehouse College, the nation’s only HBCU exclusively dedicated to educating and developing men, to expand Morehouse’s software engineering program, providing students of color with more opportunities to use and study emerging technologies. Since then, Sage’s ongoing collaboration with Morehouse has led to the creation of Morehouse’s first Generative AI course, an innovative Micropreneurship course designed to train enterprising students on how to succeed as business owners with a focus in technology, and the employment of Morehouse students as Sage interns. Through these initiatives, Sage aims to address the disparity of Black employees in the U.S. tech industry, empower future business leaders, and cultivate economic growth.
