Cross-Sector Skill Sharing in Action
Skill sharing is a two-way talent exchange where both pro bono professionals and their nonprofit partners learn from each other.
Audience: Nonprofits
Panoramic Perspectives: Creating Cross-Sector Communities of Practice
A growing number of conveners are bringing cross-sector leaders together to develop their people, improve their performance, and deepen their community impact.
Shaping the Future of Skills-Based Volunteerism
Over 50% of companies are developing programs to support philanthropy, employee engagement, and leadership development goals.
The Knitting Factor: Making Skills-Based Volunteering Stick
The Knitting Factor brings together three key conditions that enable skills-based volunteering to create strengthened, sustainable solutions that don’t come undone when partners part ways.
Creating Database Solutions for WakeEd Partnership During Fidelity Tech Impact Week
Highlights of a conversation with Nancy Merritt and Tim Lavallee of WakeEd Partnership (WakeEd), a nonprofit organization in Raleigh, North Carolina that engages, informs, and mobilizes the business community and community-at-large in collaboration with the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) to provide every student with excellent educational opportunities, highly effective teachers, and strong leaders. WakeEd identified …
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A Cross Sector Approach to Closing the Gender Gap
Inspired by the momentum of International Women’s Day, here are a few ways we can all work to close the gender gap through skills-based volunteering.
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
from the Fall 2017 Issue of The Stanford Social Innovation Review By Christine Letts & Danielle Holly One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem. The benefits of the program for …
Hello World: Leaders in Service
Points of Light gathered volunteers from across the service movement to capture what they stand for, and our Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly was there.
Organizational Readiness Wizard
Before you embark on a skills-based volunteering project, we recommend you take a step back to ensure you’re ready to do so. What does it mean to be ready? The most successful organizations have strong executive leadership, a proven theory of change, established relationship-building practices and a commitment to building their capacity to serve. In short, these …
Project Readiness Wizard
Skills-based volunteering projects yield transformational results – if they’re properly planned and prioritized. Take Capacity Commons’ Project Readiness Assessment to receive an objective evaluation of your proposed project, along with customized tips for positioning the project for maximal organizational impact.