CEO Danielle Holly explains how individuals and corporate groups can support frontline workers during COVID-19 via skills-based volunteering and Capacity Commons, our pro bono resource hub.
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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Skills-based volunteerism is an excellent way to connect employee engagement and talent development with corporate community goals and values. Pro bono programs are extraordinarily successful due to the combination of experiential learning and learning in a new environment. Plus, they allow employees who want to bring their own personal values to work to meaningfully contribute to their local …
CEO Danielle Holly comments on Google.org’s announcement of the expansion of its pilot fellowship program deploying 40–60 of its technologists in three-to-six-month stints with nonprofits in need of concentrated support from computer engineers, data analysts, and artificial intelligence experts.
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 …
