Common Impact will host Skills for Cities North Carolina on April 20, 2022, connecting nonprofits statewide with skills-based volunteers and social impact leaders to generate solutions for their pressing capacity-building challenges.
This signature flash consulting event enables skills-based volunteers to collaborate with vital nonprofits to address business challenges and expand their impact in our communities.
Organizations are increasingly stepping up their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), but defining what that looks like in practice can be difficult, not to mention creating a plan of action and bringing different stakeholder groups into alignment. That was the challenge nonprofit Completely KIDS brought to the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge in …
For six decades, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver has excited youth ages 6-18 with a wealth of quality programming in fun areas like athletics & outdoor activities, STEM & robotics, and cooking – all designed to provide them a safe, supportive, and enriching environment that inspires them to achieve their greatest potential. At …
“If there’s support coming in the form of money, if we’re doing it out of charity instead of justice, then we’re never going to get the results we want.”
Skills-based volunteering generates wins across social impact, talent development, employee engagement, recruitment & retention, and more.
“We don’t need lazy players on the field. If you’re in the game, make support of Black communities part of your bottom line and know your why.”
Even as an established and successful national organization, making a name for yourself in a new market can be difficult! Year Up Chicago – a workforce development nonprofit that engages young adults in intensive training, professional development programs, and internships – is navigating just that challenge. The Year Up team came to Charles Schwab and …
To develop and execute a skills-based volunteering day of service that would deliver on its goals across volunteer programming, internal education, and community impact, Citizens tapped on Common Impact and our two decades of program management experience.
Skills-based volunteers apply their business experience and specialized expertise to propel nonprofits – and their own companies – to reach new heights. Today, we hear from one such volunteer: Jes Philo, Product Manager at Allstate, who worked with the Center for Youth Wellness during a day of service hosted by Common Impact and The Allstate Foundation.
