Common Impact is facilitating lasting social good partnerships through Skills for Cities, a skills-based day of service that brings companies and nonprofits together to solve a common challenge.
Entering humbly, surrounding ourselves with the experts, learning as much as we can and then putting our money where our mouth is, are those fundamental things that I think can apply to natural disasters, that can apply to manmade disasters, that can apply to issues where you’re taking a stand.
Chief Giving Officer Amy Smith shares how TOMS approaches corporate activism and being a brand that takes a stand on controversial issues.
Common Impact is kicking off Pro Bono Week with new podcast episodes and reports from some of the country’s largest skills-based volunteering programs.
This year’s Impact Week is one of the largest to date, pairing nearly 500 Fidelity Investments volunteers and 85 nonprofit teams for $650,000 in value.
Philanthropy is something that really is for everyone. I didn’t realize that was the path until I was able to look back on it.
To be able to make those connections between people who want to help and the needs on the ground really is some of the most exciting work I do.
We knew that the world around us is changing and that there might be other things that not only mean a lot to our employees and to our customers, but that we can have real impact in.
The past several years have seen an unprecedented uptick in catastrophic natural and man-made disasters. In fact, 2017 brought the highest costs on record for U.S. weather and climate disasters, exceeding $306 billion. Additionally, man-made disasters such as mass shootings, the expanding lead water crises, and the detention of immigrant communities on the southern U.S. …
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