Audience: Companies

Webinar – Introduction to Insights & Impact: Measuring the Social Impact of Volunteerism

The private, public, and social sectors have long been stuck on how to define the value of donated time – the inspirational stories and output reporting we’ve all relied on just don’t tell the whole story. Common Impact was ready for a better way, so we worked closely with the measurement experts at True Impact …

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Cruise is Driving Communities Forward

As the second wave of COVID-19 surges, so does the urgency of needs in our most vulnerable communities, which have been disproportionately impacted by the resultant economic instability. Basic needs – food, work, housing, health – are at risk for many. Common Impact is proud to partner with companies who have been leveraging their unique assets and …

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S2E24: Edgar Villanueva, Schott Foundation

S2E24: Edgar Villanueva, Schott Foundation

I don’t think that any foundation has the right to go into a community to say, ‘This is what needs to be here and how you need to be doing your work,’ when they’re not from that community and don’t have relationships with that community. It’s just about trust. The least that a foundation can do is move funding and support nonprofits in a holistic way, understanding that there’s no price tag that can be put on the interventions and services that are being offered.

Making Good Happen at Work 2: A Guide to Building an Employee Service and Giving Program

A new edition of a CSR toolkit from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Common Impact, Making Good Happen at Work 2: A Guide to Building an Employee Service and Giving Program offers basic starting points and principles from Harvard Pilgrim’s programs and adds a deeper dive into skills-based volunteerism, one of the fastest growing corporate giving programs. This …

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S2E23: Chris Tyson, Build Baton Rouge

S2E23: Chris Tyson, Build Baton Rouge

In the middle of COVID and post-COVID, we have to have a lens of racial and social equity. We have to recognize the gaps and imbalances that exist in our community, the misdistribution of resources, and how that has disproportionately impacted the places and spaces where Black and Brown communities live and struggle to thrive.

S2E22: Wendy John, Fidelity Investments

S2E22: Wendy John, Fidelity Investments

What we’ve seen certainly in 2020 is that there has been a need for us to really open the door to these courageous conversations and talk about some of the challenges that we’re all facing, and for managers and leaders to be more vulnerable and to listen more.