How to Maximize Your Impact with Skills-Based Volunteering
By tapping into the professional expertise of skills-based volunteers, social sector agencies are able to strengthen their infrastructure and further their missions.
Audience: Nonprofits
S2E04: Jeff Senne, PwC
Diversity and inclusion takes a lot of shapes and sizes and forms and if we can [amplify or broaden our communities], we’re more creative, we’re more innovative, we’re more perceptive and we’re all more successful.
S2E03: Rita Houston, WFUV
Generosity isn’t based on how much money you have, it’s based on your values and what you hold important.
S2E01: David Shapiro, MENTOR
There is something incredibly powerful about showing up for a young person time and time again… It is one of the most enriching things you’ll find in life.
S1E39: Celebrating a Year of Social Impact Conversations
In the season 1 finale of Pro Bono Perspectives, host and Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly looks back on more than a year of social impact conversations with insightful, inspiring change leaders across sectors and industries. A few key trends emerged, which Danielle explores further in this episode: the expanding definition of philanthropy, new approaches …
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S1E38 ENCORE: Tim Smith, The Boston Foundation
There is more engagement, more folks joining boards, wanting to volunteer, wanting to work for social impact companies whose business models are to give back.
sgeENGAGE: #GivingSkills: Doing #GivingTuesday Differently
At Common Impact, we’re particularly excited about the power of time and talent. When #GivingTuesday comes around, we encourage the partners and individuals in our networks to give with their skills, not just their dollars.
S1E37 ENCORE: Robert Lee, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine
Every time I think about the statistics, the pure math of the problem, I always think about that if you take one third of the food that is going to waste and bring it to people who are food insecure, that is enough nutrition to eliminate food insecurity.
S1E36: Myung Lee, Cities of Service
What we need to get better at is asking people to help us and telling them how they can help us.