Stuart Shih, a Fidelity Investments skills-based volunteer, shares about authentic leadership, active listening, and a workforce development project with Skills for Rhode Island’s Future.
Is rising inequality an inevitable consequence of today’s technology-driven economic transformations? No, but we do need to challenge the status quo to really take a pause and reflect on where we are and what we can do, and it does require top-down and bottom-up voices to make it happen.
Maria Kim, President & CEO of workforce development nonprofit Cara Collective, talks leadership during COVID-19, alleviating inequality, and racial justice.
The impacts of COVID-19 on basic needs organizations has sparked many companies to rethink and redesign their approaches to community impact, like San Francisco-based autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Cruise.
We’re at this moment where we have to be asking the hard questions, the right questions, to really root out the structural problems – and that’s where design thinking comes in.
In celebration of Global Volunteer Month, we’re sharing some of our favorite volunteer interviews, articles, and resources to fuel you for what’s ahead!
Verizon’s Victoria Lai shares about her recent skills-based volunteer work through Skills for Cities and a web design project with technology education and entrepreneurship nonprofit Hopeworks.
“The only way that we’re actually going to solve things is through collaboration and, in many cases, not worrying about who ultimately gets the credit.”
“In a pandemic in the midst of a lot of social unrest, volunteering really made me feel like I was able to make a difference, to be a better person, and offer something of value to a very deserving nonprofit.”
Former President & Executive Director of iMentor Caroline Kim Oh talks leadership, career coaching, gender bias, and discrimination against the AAPI community.
