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Pro Bono 101 Webinar with the Clinton Foundation
Common Impact is proud to partner with the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network. This December 2020 webinar helps nonprofits understand opportunities for leveraging skills-based volunteering to build capacity. The presentation features information on skills-based volunteering resources, how…
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2020-2022 Common Impact Strategy Overview
Last year we worked through the “why” of our work, asking ourselves “so what?” until we hit our north star. We work towards alleviating inequality by building the capacity of social change organizations fighting for equity through skilled volunteerism by…
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Insights & Impact 2020: Measuring the Social Impact of Volunteerism
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…
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COVID-19 Nonprofit Impact Report: A Guide for Providing Philanthropic and Skilled Volunteer Support
In Common Impact’s effort to support and sustain its nonprofit partners during this crisis, we found ourselves spending a lot of time doing a lot of research in a lot of places. We imagine many of you are doing the…
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Effective Board Service: How to Identify and Train Executives
Recorded at the IPA Philanthropy Leads 2020 Conference, this session focuses on how to successfully train executives for nonprofit board service. CEO Danielle Holly shares insights and best practices from Common Impact’s two decades of experience in skilled volunteerism, including board…
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Fundraising Freedom Podcast with Mary Valloni
Fundraising Freedom host Mary Valloni interviews Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly on how she got her start in skills-based volunteering, Common Impact’s Disaster Resiliency initiative and how professionals can donate their talent to help nonprofits in this difficult time.
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Experts call for more skills‐based volunteerism in disaster philanthropy
Leading experts in the field of corporate volunteerism are calling for companies to leverage the skills and knowledge of their employees in the disaster philanthropy arena, an area where most companies’ giving extends only to cash and product. In a white…
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Insights & Impact 2019: Disaster Response – From Relief to Resiliency
The past several years have seen an unprecedented uptick in catastrophic natural and man-made disasters. In fact, 2017 brought the highest costs on record for U.S. weather and climate disasters, exceeding $306 billion. Additionally, man-made disasters such as mass shootings,…
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Pro Bono Calculator
It can be challenging for organizations to quantify the discrete impact of a pro bono intervention. Being able to cite the monetary value of a prospective project will help you validate that it is a good use of your time…
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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.
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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…
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Impact at Work: Attracting Talent to Support Financial Education for California Youth
In the spirit of service this MLK Day, we had the exciting opportunity to interview Amiko Foster of Youth Finance Institute of America (YFIA), a California-based nonprofit that provides personal finance education programs designed to teach finance life skills to…
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Verizon helps nonprofits pivot their marketing strategies for the continuing COVID-19 crisis
In June 2020, Common Impact and Verizon partnered with three nonprofits to help them revamp their marketing strategies in light of COVID-19.
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Mobilizing an ERG to support the expansion of an LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurship nonprofit
Mid-pandemic, LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurship nonprofit StartOut and JPMorgan Chase began a three-month virtual volunteering project to develop a strategy for the decade-old organization’s new expansion efforts. The JPMorgan Chase Virtual Service Corps team, which included members of the company’s Pride Employee…