This public health crisis is already disproportionately impacting the populations that were facing discrimination, lack of access to services and economic hardship before this crisis took place. What COVID-19 has done is expose the fault lines that already existed in our society.
I’ve had so many employees from every part of the world reach out [about Salesforce.org’s pro bono program]. I see them organizing themselves to support customers, I see them building new solutions, I see them coming up with all kinds of really creative ways to help our sector. It’s been so heartening to witness all the ways our employees and people in general are finding ways to help each other.
Common Impact is answering our CEO’s call to action by expanding our virtual skills-based volunteer models and providing resiliency tools for nonprofits.
It would be very easy for each of us in this moment of social distancing to pull back from one another, but what we’ve seen is the opposite.
As anxieties surrounding COVID-19 have spread rapidly over the past week, the nonprofit sector has been dealing with the sunk costs and vanishing revenue associated with cancelled events and the concomitant drop in funding as it confronts the possibility of a global recession. One of the less discussed but strongly felt results of this public …
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