How do we put the [communities] in the driver’s seat? When we’re investing our time and our resources and our energy, how are we shifting the power that may have sat with funders who might have pre-determined what those criteria were, and create a new set of criteria around investments?
The private, public, and social sectors have long been stuck on how to define the value of donated time – the inspirational stories and output reporting we’ve all relied on just don’t tell the whole story. Common Impact was ready for a better way, so we worked closely with the measurement experts at True Impact …
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Pro Bono Week 2020 came at a time of unprecedented difficulty, but in spite of that, it produced some of the most inspiring – and most necessary – cross-sector collaborations we’ve ever witnessed.
I don’t think that any foundation has the right to go into a community to say, ‘This is what needs to be here and how you need to be doing your work,’ when they’re not from that community and don’t have relationships with that community. It’s just about trust. The least that a foundation can do is move funding and support nonprofits in a holistic way, understanding that there’s no price tag that can be put on the interventions and services that are being offered.
In the middle of COVID and post-COVID, we have to have a lens of racial and social equity. We have to recognize the gaps and imbalances that exist in our community, the misdistribution of resources, and how that has disproportionately impacted the places and spaces where Black and Brown communities live and struggle to thrive.
Professionals from across sectors, industries, causes, and regions joined forces to build stronger, healthier, more prosperous communities.
Voting in COVID-19 times may require more effort than it has in the past, but it’s still one of the best ways we can build equitable, strong communities.
What we’ve seen certainly in 2020 is that there has been a need for us to really open the door to these courageous conversations and talk about some of the challenges that we’re all facing, and for managers and leaders to be more vulnerable and to listen more.
New methods of impact measurement can more accurately capture and strengthen the value of volunteer hours, shares a new report from Common Impact and True Impact.
The private, public, and social sectors have long been stuck on how to define the value of donated time – the inspirational stories and output reporting we’ve all relied on just don’t tell the whole story. We were ready for a better way, so we worked closely with the measurement experts at True Impact to …
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