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.
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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Companies have to be seeking out ways to give back or else they’re not going to be able to keep their talent.
Consistent and adequate funding for global health efforts is not a nice to have, it’s absolutely critical.
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.
