Common Impact and COVID-19: Volunteering Differently – Not Less – During a Crisis
Common Impact is answering our CEO’s call to action by expanding our virtual skills-based volunteer models and providing resiliency tools for nonprofits.
Topic: Disaster
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.
COVID-19: Now is the Time for Businesses and Nonprofits to Plan and Adapt, Not Pull Back
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.
S1E39: Celebrating a Year of Social Impact Conversations
In the season 1 finale of Pro Bono Perspectives, host and Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly looks back on more than a year of social impact conversations with insightful, inspiring change leaders across sectors and industries. A few key trends emerged, which Danielle explores further in this episode: the expanding definition of philanthropy, new approaches …
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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 paper recently published by Common Impact, a national nonprofit focused on connecting corporate volunteers with …
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S1E33 ENCORE: Amy Smith, TOMS
Entering humbly, surrounding ourselves with the experts, learning as much as we can and then putting our money where our mouth is, are those fundamental things that I think can apply to natural disasters, that can apply to manmade disasters, that can apply to issues where you’re taking a stand.
Addressing Complex Social Issues through Corporate Activism
Chief Giving Officer Amy Smith shares how TOMS approaches corporate activism and being a brand that takes a stand on controversial issues.
S1E31 ENCORE: Erica Tavares, International Medical Corps
To be able to make those connections between people who want to help and the needs on the ground really is some of the most exciting work I do.
S1E30: Amy Smith, TOMS
We knew that the world around us is changing and that there might be other things that not only mean a lot to our employees and to our customers, but that we can have real impact in.