S1E22: Susan Portugal, Bank of America
Find a way or make a way. If you can get through the established ways of doing it, great – and if not, make a way.
Audience: Companies
S1E21: Rachael Weiss Riley, Two Sigma Data Clinic
Do not underestimate the value and the asset of your unique skills, whatever they may be.
S1E20: Farron Levy, True Impact
Measurement is a means to an end, and the end is either proving value or improving value.
Impact at Work: Charles Schwab and the SAFE Alliance Join Forces
In October of 2018, The SAFE Alliance joined forces with a volunteer team from Charles Schwab to tackle a pressing organizational staffing challenge.
The Knitting Factor: Why Skills-Based Volunteering Done Right Works
Common Impact has designed hundreds of meaningful skills-based volunteer partnerships over the years, and has watched them sustain far past the individual projects that initially bring business and nonprofit professionals together. Along the way, we’ve asked ourselves a few questions. What makes some skills-based engagements work better than others? When do we see partnerships move …
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Making Long-Term Impact through a Day of Skilled Service
A new case study on the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge is available to help organizations find new ways to engage volunteers in shorter-term skills-based engagements that provide measurable longer-term results.
S1E19: Colleen Olphert, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
“We’re all in this together and we’re only going to succeed if companies, governments, nonprofits – we’re all working in the same direction.
Impact at Work: Talent Development Spotlight with John Hancock’s Amy Ly
John Hancock Senior Salesforce and Operations Analyst Amy Ly joined her company’s volunteer team to support a Salesforce implementation project with the Urban Farming Institute and hone her professional skills.
S1E18: Greg Baldwin, VolunteerMatch
I’m always delighted and surprised by the breadth and depth of opportunities out there for people to get involved… There’s just so much more variety for people to find something that’s a real fit with their own interests and passions than there was 20 years ago.
S1E17: Syretta Hill, StepUp Durham
What I find is that when women are sitting at the table, the way that we are present is just different.