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Pro Bono Hotline
Just-in-time coaching and strategic guidance for social impact leaders facing new or sticky challenges.
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Capacity Commons
Capacity Commons is a one-stop shop for all your skills-based volunteering needs. You’ll be equipped with the information, tools, and network needed to: understand how pro bono can best support your organization, obtain skilled volunteer support, and maximize the immediate and long-term impact of your engagement.
Capacity Commons features a suite of resources to support your organization wherever you are in your pro bono journey.
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Pro Bono Hotline: Advice from Experts
Common Impact has introduced just-in-time coaching and strategic guidance for social impact organizations facing sticky challenges, nonprofits responding to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial justice organizations seeking to scale their work.
Corporate professionals skilled in areas like risk management, operations realignment, crisis communications, and IT planning provide quick, strategic support to social sector organizations through a virtual “hotline” curated by Common Impact.
When time is at a premium for both volunteers and nonprofits, the hotline offers rapid response support for crisis situations or a quick injection of advice for capacity-strapped organizations.
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We plan hundreds of skills-based volunteer engagements each year, working with nonprofit organizations from across the country who share our values of alleviating inequality and building more equitable communities.
If your organization has a capacity-building need, please tell us more. If we have an opportunity – now or in the future – that could be a fit , we’ll get in touch.
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Nonprofit Success Stories
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East Boston Social Centers Leverages Skills-Based Volunteers from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to Promote Mental Health during COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases continue to climb across the country, many Americans are experiencing a mental health crisis too, especially healthcare and frontline workers. At East Boston Social Centers (the Social Centers), a nonprofit that provides afterschool programming, childcare, nutrition, and activities for the elderly, the staff…
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Resourcing Disaster Response Operations of the American Red Cross
Every eight minutes, the American Red Cross responds to someone in crisis. The organization provides vital relief services, including shelter, food and healthcare, in over 60,000 disasters each year. The American Red Cross solicits donations of IT products, such as…
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Optimizing mission delivery through smarter systems at The Greater Boston Food Bank
The Challenge The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) aims to end hunger in Eastern MA by providing 36.4 million pounds of food to 600 small, medium and large human service agencies such as food pantries, after-school programs, senior feeding programs…