September 3, 2026 | 2:00pm ET

Everyone in the social impact industry has heard the numbers: a $44 billion market, an $8–10 billion volunteering platform space. These figures show up in pitch decks, investor conversations, and conference keynotes — but most of them don’t hold up under scrutiny. The volunteering platform market has been overstated by a factor of 17–25. The $44 billion figure counts pass-through dollars that never touch a vendor. And an entire hidden purpose economy (DEI, ESG consulting, cause marketing, supply chain compliance) has been left out entirely.

Join Angela Parker, CEO, Realized Worth, and Grady Lee, CEO, Give To Get, as they present findings from their joint market intelligence report, the first to apply sourced data, visible methodology, and explicit confidence ratings to this market. Whether you run an agency, sell a platform, or manage a CSR program from the inside, this is the clearest picture available of the market you operate in.

You’ll Learn:

• The Real Numbers: Why the most cited CSR market figures are wrong in both directions and what the corrected $26–30B operational purpose economy actually looks like
• Where Operational Budget Comes From: How a median Fortune 500 CSR budget breaks down and why the $2.1M M&P line is a fraction of the purpose spend in the same organization
• The Director’s Dilemma: Who’s making purchasing decisions (81% female, teams of five or fewer, stretched thin) and what that means for how vendors and consultants sell, price, and build
• The Opportunity: Why the biggest growth lever is accessing the HR, Legal, Finance, and Communications budgets that hold 7–9x more purpose spend than the CSR director controls