Skills-based volunteers apply their business experience and specialized expertise to propel nonprofits – and their own companies – to reach new heights. Today, we hear from one such volunteer: Jes Philo, Product Manager at Allstate, who worked with the Center for Youth Wellness during a day of service hosted by Common Impact and The Allstate Foundation.
Skills-based volunteering can be of critical support to nonprofits in the current environment, enabling them to take a step back from their current context and envision the future.
Skills-Based Volunteering in Action: Team Consulting Offering upskilling opportunities is a priority for any company that values its employees’ continuous growth and success. When Fidelity Investments sought a long-term skills-based volunteering program calibrated for the unique expertise of its Corporate Technology Group (CTG), it partnered with Common Impact to identify nonprofit projects that aligned with …
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Team Consulting with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments This is the final installment in a series of blog posts tracking a long-term skills-based volunteering project with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments to upgrade the nonprofit’s website. Catch up on the project progress by reading the first and second posts in the series. The …
[Fidelity is] making incredible strides and building transformational relationships at every level. They’re seeing social and financial returns on their [racial equity] investment that will certainly make an impact in how communities and customers and stakeholders see their business.
“The team really listened to us and thought to learn about how this supported our work organizationally in order to create a platform that will work for us and grow with us,” said Emily Ashton, Chief External Affairs Officer at America Needs You.
During this intensive day of service, nearly 150 Allstate volunteers will use their professional skills to complete 15 projects that will build the capacity of 12 organizations, all led by people of color or with a racial justice focus.
Skills for Cities Fall 2021 will bring together volunteers from 16 companies with leaders of 17 BIPOC-led, racial equity, and digital inclusion nonprofits in an intensive one-day virtual flash consulting event.
