S1E22: Susan Portugal, Bank of America
Find a way or make a way. If you can get through the established ways of doing it, great – and if not, make a way.
Topic: Pro Bono Basics
S1E21: Rachael Weiss Riley, Two Sigma Data Clinic
Do not underestimate the value and the asset of your unique skills, whatever they may be.
S1E20: Farron Levy, True Impact
Measurement is a means to an end, and the end is either proving value or improving value.
The Knitting Factor: Why Skills-Based Volunteering Done Right Works
Common Impact has designed hundreds of meaningful skills-based volunteer partnerships over the years, and has watched them sustain far past the individual projects that initially bring business and nonprofit professionals together. Along the way, we’ve asked ourselves a few questions. What makes some skills-based engagements work better than others? When do we see partnerships move …
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Making Long-Term Impact through a Day of Skilled Service
A new case study on the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge is available to help organizations find new ways to engage volunteers in shorter-term skills-based engagements that provide measurable longer-term results.
S1E14: Daniel Horgan, MENTOR
Now that I’ve worked in different sectors, I feel like I can play the role of helping to translate between the sectors…anything we are doing in the philanthropic space needs to be aligned to a business goal.
S1E13: Krista Canellakis, City of San Francisco
The really exciting part of working in government is that we want people to steal our ideas. I love meeting with public servants in other cities to see how our work can be shared or replicated.
Nonprofit Quarterly: Google.org’s Fellowship Program Doubles Down on Skilled Volunteering
CEO Danielle Holly comments on Google.org’s announcement of the expansion of its pilot fellowship program deploying 40–60 of its technologists in three-to-six-month stints with nonprofits in need of concentrated support from computer engineers, data analysts, and artificial intelligence experts.
S1E11: 2019 Outlook – Building Nonprofit Capacity Through Pro Bono Service
The changing paradigm of business requires a changing mandate for leaders across all sectors. It has become increasingly important for leaders to develop cross-sector skills around building teams, solving problems and creating impact.
The Knitting Factor: Tying it All Together in Celebration of Pro Bono Week
The Knitting Factor explains how skills-based volunteering knits together the expertise from the corporate and nonprofit sectors to create sustainable solutions that don’t come undone when partners part ways.