Leaning heavily into the unique skill sets and interests of your employees, thinking about where that can be deployed and applied to have the greatest impact, and staying true to your core competencies and mission as a company is really important.
In the face of COVID-19 and a spike in unemployment, the mission of workforce development nonprofit Custom Collaborative took on a new level of urgency.
People still want to help. They want to be involved. The love for humanity shines through in this instance where people who are used to volunteering and those who are not want to be involved.
Everybody’s got to be more flexible, figure out how we can help our communities in ways we never did before… The flexibility that we maybe didn’t think about before has got to be part of our day-to-day moving forward.
There is such a stigma still attached to these diseases that society hadn’t come to terms with and I think maybe if we’re looking for a silver lining in all this, people will better understand the impact that loneliness and isolation can have on people’s mental health.
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CEO Danielle Holly explains how individuals and corporate groups can support frontline workers during COVID-19 via skills-based volunteering and Capacity Commons, our pro bono resource hub.
You don’t always have to be physically present to do some good, but there are some things to consider before starting a virtual volunteering project.
Consistent and adequate funding for global health efforts is not a nice to have, it’s absolutely critical.
In March 2020, as the coronavirus situation was unfolding, S&P Global and the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center partnered for a day of virtual skills-based volunteering.
