To develop and execute a skills-based volunteering day of service that would deliver on its goals across volunteer programming, internal education, and community impact, Citizens tapped on Common Impact and our two decades of program management experience.
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.
Skills-Based Volunteering in Action: Team Consulting Offering upskilling opportunities is a priority for any company that values its employees’ continuous growth and success. When Fidelity Investments sought a long-term skills-based volunteering program calibrated for the unique expertise of its Corporate Technology Group (CTG), it partnered with Common Impact to identify nonprofit projects that aligned with …
Team Consulting with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments This is the final installment in a series of blog posts tracking a long-term skills-based volunteering project with America Needs You and Fidelity Investments to upgrade the nonprofit’s website. Catch up on the project progress by reading the first and second posts in the series. The …
“The team really listened to us and thought to learn about how this supported our work organizationally in order to create a platform that will work for us and grow with us,” said Emily Ashton, Chief External Affairs Officer at America Needs You.
Common Impact matched education and mentorship nonprofit America Needs You with Fidelity Investments for a long-term team consulting project to redesign their website.
More over the last three years than any time in my tenure, people reference their service as activism… It’s led people to have a broader social justice or racial justice framework in their service that directs where they want to serve and the context around their service.
Bridging the digital divide requires action and collaboration across an entire ecosystem – government, private sector, nonprofits – and most importantly, passionate and committed people driving change.
From the beginning, there was such mutual respect for the knowledge that we [each] brought to the table.
Our day of service model provides opportunities for professional development, team building, and nonprofit capacity building.
