Impact at Work: New Hope Housing Project Spotlight
As we kick off National Volunteer Week, we want to take the opportunity to thank all of our incredible skilled volunteers who support our work. While this week is centered…
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Voice from the Field: Cassie Scarano, CEO and Co-Founder, Commongood Careers
1. Do you think that there’s a “talent gap” in the nonprofit sector? If so, what’s the nature of it? If not, why do you think there’s a misconception in…
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Program Spotlight: New Pathways for Youth
We're excited to highlight an inspiring project with a talented team from Charles Schwab and its nonprofit partner, New Pathways for Youth (NPFY), who empower youth to fulfill their potential…
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Bridging the Nonprofit Leadership Gap
Most of us in and around the social sector have been exposed to the capacity gap that nonprofits confront. On average, nonprofits spend less – often far less – than…
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Impact Inspirations: Fidelity Investments Enterprise Infrastructure Program
One of the Common Impact initiatives that intentionally works to engage a global and remote workforce is our program with Fidelity Investments Enterprise Infrastructure (EI). Fidelity has created the LEAP…
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Engaging Remote Employees
We all recognize that today’s workforce is increasingly virtual and global. Indeed, up to 90% of the US workforce reports working out of the office at least part of the…
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Impact Inspirations: Fidelity Investments Program
One of the Common Impact initiatives that best exemplifies shared value is its program with the Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) business. The program offers a unique experiential learning and…
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Unlocking Purpose and Profit
We have all seen corporate community engagement undergo a transformation in the past 20 years. Through the 1990’s a company’s engagement strategy was largely driven by compliance, aligning to policies…
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Reflections from the International Women’s Day Forum
A belated happy International Women’s Day to all! As I reflect on an inspiring two days at the 2016 International Women’s Day forum last week, The Business of Inclusion: Global…
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What the Rise of Skills-Based Volunteering Means for Nonprofits
Over the past ten years, the private sector has vastly increased their investment in communities. In 2015, 75% of companies were engaged in corporate citizenship activities[1]. Those activities include philanthropic…
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Impact Inspirations: Capital Good Fund
We’re excited to bring you a brand new blog series Impact Inspirations, where we will be spotlighting our most inspiring skills-based volunteering projects! To kick us off, we’re highlighting a…
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Tis’ the Season: A Roundup of our Favorite CSR Blogs
Tis' the season! In light of the holidays and the last few weeks of 2015, we've put together a new type of reading list to get you through those cold…
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The CSR Scoop - Summer Reading List Edition
As we head into the final stretch of summer, the Common Impact team is picking up the last of the books on our summer reading list. Check out how we’re…
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Flash Consulting: A Day of Transformative Results
An Afternoon’s PotentialWhat do you typically accomplish in a single afternoon? Perhaps digging yourself out of your inbox absorbs half the day. Or preparing for a meeting occupies your entire…
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Guest Blog: Doing Well by Doing Good: It Works!
Posted by Pamela Paton, Financial Services Executive and Common Impact Board Member After 30 years of managing people in the corporate world, I've learned that the best employees are happy…
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Employee Engagement and Corporate Success Factors
I’m always interested in learning different perspectives about skilled volunteering and the value that is defined and delivered by these programs. For a view from the corporate executive perspective, I…
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Guest Blog: A Skilled Volunteer’s Perspective on Motivation and Impact
Posted by M.D., a VP of Information Technology at a Boston-based financial services company Our company, partnering with Common Impact, was soliciting skill-based volunteers to field small teams to support…
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Our Fall Reading List
The air is getting crisp here at Common Impact's home base in New England, and it's starting to be that time of year where there's nothing we look forward to…
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Lessons from the Social Sector
While the ideas of cross-sector collaboration and shared value have been popular for a while -- indeed, so popular that they are in danger of being oversubscribed and overused --…
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Let’s Give Volunteering A Facelift!
(Originally posted to Business Doing Good, 4.10.14) What image comes to your mind when you think of employee volunteerism? Perhaps a team of smiling people at a local shelter in…
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