Shaping the Future of Skills-Based Volunteerism
Last week, the Common Impact team gathered in our Brooklyn offices to connect as colleagues and plan for the work ahead of us. As a growing and geographically dispersed organization,…
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Shared Value Summit 2018 Reflection
When Common Impact’s clients ask me what events they should attend to understand the next generation of CSR, employee engagement and for-purpose business, I always point them to the Shared…
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Common Impact and Fidelity Investments Scale Tech Impact Week to 6 Cities across the U.S.
National, March 5, 2018 -- Common Impact, a nonprofit that pioneered corporate skills-based volunteering is collaborating with Fidelity Investments® to launch Tech Impact Week, its 3rd annual wide-scale flash consulting…
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Giving Tuesday Twitter Chat: A Year in Review Through the Lens of Skills-Based Volunteering
In honor of Giving Tuesday, Common Impact is hosting a Twitter chat on Tuesday, November 28th to reflect on a year in review through the lens of skills-based volunteering (SBV).…
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Program Spotlight: City Mission
This week, we’re highlighting a project with a talented team from State Street and its nonprofit partner, City Mission, a social justice organization that unites communities and transforms individuals through service,…
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Engaging Remote Employees
We all recognize that today’s workforce is increasingly virtual and global. Indeed, up to 90% of the US workforce reports working out of the office at least part of the…
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Unlocking Purpose and Profit
We have all seen corporate community engagement undergo a transformation in the past 20 years. Through the 1990’s a company’s engagement strategy was largely driven by compliance, aligning to policies…
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What the Rise of Skills-Based Volunteering Means for Nonprofits
Over the past ten years, the private sector has vastly increased their investment in communities. In 2015, 75% of companies were engaged in corporate citizenship activities[1]. Those activities include philanthropic…
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Impact Inspirations: Capital Good Fund
We’re excited to bring you a brand new blog series Impact Inspirations, where we will be spotlighting our most inspiring skills-based volunteering projects! To kick us off, we’re highlighting a…
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2016 Outlook: Business and Purpose
In President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, he called on business to be a force for good through the strong and fair treatment of employees. …
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Tis’ the Season: A Roundup of our Favorite CSR Blogs
Tis' the season! In light of the holidays and the last few weeks of 2015, we've put together a new type of reading list to get you through those cold…
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Pro Bono Perspectives: Janelle Woods-McNish
We all know that skills-based volunteering is a great idea for companies, its people and, most importantly, the nonprofits that deliver critical services every day to our communities. Still, whether…
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The CSR Scoop - 8/26/2015
We are going back to our roots this week and talking about our raison d’être: skills-based volunteering. Common Impact has been in this line of work for fifteen years and…
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The CSR Scoop - 8/19/2015
This week, we’re talking about purpose. What is it? How do we channel and leverage it? Why bother? Read on to find out! The Scoop: We talk a lot…
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The CSR Scoop - Summer Reading List Edition
As we head into the final stretch of summer, the Common Impact team is picking up the last of the books on our summer reading list. Check out how we’re…
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The CSR Scoop - 7/29/2015
Common Impact’s Jackie Hodgson is guest writing this week’s SCOOP, and has everything you need to get you over the Wednesday hump. Read on to learn more about the supply…
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The CSR Scoop - 7/22/2015
Happy hump day! We know that Wednesdays are particularly tough in the summer, as we look forward to those long, summer weekends. To bring you into the home stretch, we’re…
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The CSR Scoop - 7/14/2015
In the easy, breezy spirit of summer, we’re keeping the Scoop light this week with the top recently released articles, blogs, interviews, and events that we think are worth sharing.…
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The CSR Scoop - 7/07/2015
We’re just coming off the holiday weekend, during which we celebrated all that makes our country great. Among those things to celebrate is the exciting work being done across America…
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The CSR Scoop - 6/26/2015
Another week gone and we are just shocked by how this summer is flying by! Let’s stop to smell the roses – and to catch up on what’s being discussed…
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