for skills-based volunteering to become truly transformative, organizations need to find the “sticky” relationships that enable companies and nonprofits to drive progress on both mission and business-related goals.
When partners recognize the knowledge and expertise that both sides bring to the table, it creates an opportunity for real talent development and long-term, sustainable partnerships.
That’s the stuff that inspires me. It’s the people around me who have had challenges, who have persevered, who are purpose-driven and don’t give up.
I think folks have also realized when we talk about the way people learn it’s through hands-on real-world experiences and that is true of children, it’s also true of adults.
I think that I am incredibly fortunate that I get to get up every day and do what I do.
I was never in this for the money, I was always in it for the work. Because if you did amazing work, everything else would follow.
Common Impact, Social Venture Partners Boston, and Impact 2030 launch Skills for Cities, a new model for citywide impact through a day of skilled service.
Through our work developing strategic partnerships that engage business professionals to create positive community change, we see two major STEM education challenges that skilled volunteerism can help address. Today we are sharing our perspective on how STEM education and volunteering can increase representation for women and diverse communities in both the social and corporate sector. …
S&P Global skilled volunteers shared their data management expertise with the Sexual Assault Recovery Agency (SARA) to support the nonprofit’s storytelling.
Skills-based volunteering can bridge the STEM education divide by developing multi-sector solutions that ensure the workforce of the future is set up forsuccess.
