Common Impact and COVID-19: Volunteering Differently – Not Less – During a Crisis
Common Impact is answering our CEO’s call to action by expanding our virtual skills-based volunteer models and providing resiliency tools for nonprofits.
Common Impact is answering our CEO’s call to action by expanding our virtual skills-based volunteer models and providing resiliency tools for nonprofits.
Fundraising Freedom host Mary Valloni interviews Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly on how she got her start in skills-based volunteering, Common Impact’s Disaster Resiliency initiative and how professionals can donate their talent to help nonprofits in this difficult time.
When I say ‘no,’ it allows other people to say ‘yes.’ Oftentimes I find that when you say ‘yes’ to everything, you actually deny other people the opportunity to say ‘yes.’
It would be very easy for each of us in this moment of social distancing to pull back from one another, but what we’ve seen is the opposite.
As anxieties surrounding COVID-19 have spread rapidly over the past week, the nonprofit sector has been dealing with the sunk costs and vanishing revenue associated with cancelled events and the concomitant drop in funding as it confronts the possibility of a global recession. One of the less discussed but strongly felt results of this public …
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The talent is there, but we need to proactively go out and look for it and we also need to be thoughtful about creating diverse entry points for talent.
Diversity and inclusion takes a lot of shapes and sizes and forms and if we can [amplify or broaden our communities], we’re more creative, we’re more innovative, we’re more perceptive and we’re all more successful.
Small acts can really change the way we feel about our jobs and therefore how well we perform them.
There is something incredibly powerful about showing up for a young person time and time again… It is one of the most enriching things you’ll find in life.