Beth Kanter shares insights on real-world innovation, nonprofit capacity building, and her and Allison Fine’s new book, “The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World.”
This signature flash consulting event enables skills-based volunteers to collaborate with vital nonprofits to address business challenges and expand their impact in our communities.
Girl Develop It Executive Director Katie Franco talks gender equity in the tech industry, workplace flexibility as a means to promote DEI, and advice for women in leadership.
“If there’s support coming in the form of money, if we’re doing it out of charity instead of justice, then we’re never going to get the results we want.”
Skills-based volunteering generates wins across social impact, talent development, employee engagement, recruitment & retention, and more.
“We don’t need lazy players on the field. If you’re in the game, make support of Black communities part of your bottom line and know your why.”
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.
What is that superpower, that skill, that talent that your family and friends and colleagues always go to you for? How can you use that to create change in your community?
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.
