Building Capacity for STEM Focused Nonprofits
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.
Audience: Companies
Cross-Sector Skill Sharing in Action
Skill sharing is a two-way talent exchange where both pro bono professionals and their nonprofit partners learn from each other.
Panoramic Perspectives: Creating Cross-Sector Communities of Practice
A growing number of conveners are bringing cross-sector leaders together to develop their people, improve their performance, and deepen their community impact.
Shaping the Future of Skills-Based Volunteerism
Over 50% of companies are developing programs to support philanthropy, employee engagement, and leadership development goals.
The Knitting Factor: Making Skills-Based Volunteering Stick
The Knitting Factor brings together three key conditions that enable skills-based volunteering to create strengthened, sustainable solutions that don’t come undone when partners part ways.
Creating Database Solutions for WakeEd Partnership During Fidelity Tech Impact Week
Highlights of a conversation with Nancy Merritt and Tim Lavallee of WakeEd Partnership (WakeEd), a nonprofit organization in Raleigh, North Carolina that engages, informs, and mobilizes the business community and community-at-large in collaboration with the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) to provide every student with excellent educational opportunities, highly effective teachers, and strong leaders. WakeEd identified …
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A Cross Sector Approach to Closing the Gender Gap
Inspired by the momentum of International Women’s Day, here are a few ways we can all work to close the gender gap through skills-based volunteering.
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
from the Fall 2017 Issue of The Stanford Social Innovation Review By Christine Letts & Danielle Holly One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem. The benefits of the program for …
Re-Quilibrium Podcast: The Next Phase of CSR Requires Better Volunteering
Two paths operate in parallel. On one path, a corporate leader wakes up, goes to work, and deploys the skills she has been building over the course of her education and career. On another path, a nonprofit leader wakes up, goes to work, and deploys the skills he has been building over the course of …
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Hello World: Leaders in Service
Points of Light gathered volunteers from across the service movement to capture what they stand for, and our Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly was there.