Pro Bono Perspectives Rewind: November-December 2021
Catch up on the latest Pro Bono Perspectives podcast episodes from November-December 2021!
Audience: Companies
S3E25: 3 Ways You Can Be a Force for Good in 2022
What is that superpower, that skill, that talent that your family and friends and colleagues always go to you for? How can you use that to create change in your community?
Skills for Cities: Taking Action for Racial & Digital Equity
Common Impact’s October 2021 Skills for Cities – a day of skills-based “flash” consulting – was exclusively dedicated to building the capacity of BIPOC-led, racial justice, and digital inclusion organizations. The event included 180 participants from 17 nonprofits and 16 companies, representing four countries. Together, we generated over $165,000 for BIPOC-led, racial equity, and digital …
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Much More than a New Website
Team Consulting with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments This is the final installment in a series of blog posts tracking a long-term skills-based volunteering project with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments to upgrade the nonprofit’s website. Catch up on the project progress by reading the first and second posts in the series. The …
S3E24: Teresa Pelletier, Fidelity Investments & Wendy Matheny, Ichor Strategies
[Fidelity is] making incredible strides and building transformational relationships at every level. They’re seeing social and financial returns on their [racial equity] investment that will certainly make an impact in how communities and customers and stakeholders see their business.
Refresh and Reset: A Pro Bono Website Upgrade
“The team really listened to us and thought to learn about how this supported our work organizationally in order to create a platform that will work for us and grow with us,” said Emily Ashton, Chief External Affairs Officer at America Needs You.
S3E23: Grace Bonney, Collective Wisdom & Design*Sponge
Broadening the circle of people that you listen to and pay attention to – in particular, people who are part of communities that have been marginalized by mainstream society – you learn different values systems and structures… The more that I try to expand that circle and listen and learn, the more I see that I have a choice to slow down.
Skills-Based Volunteers Give Critical Support to Racial Equity Nonprofits
During this intensive day of service, nearly 150 Allstate volunteers will use their professional skills to complete 15 projects that will build the capacity of 12 organizations, all led by people of color or with a racial justice focus.
Common Impact Names Ola Duru Chief Operating Officer
Skills for Cities Fall 2021 will bring together volunteers from 16 companies with leaders of 17 BIPOC-led, racial equity, and digital inclusion nonprofits in an intensive one-day virtual flash consulting event.
Pro Bono Week Pride: $500,000 in Skills-Based Volunteering for Nonprofits
As we reflect back on Pro Bono Week, we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve accomplished together!