In March 2020, as the coronavirus situation was unfolding, S&P Global and the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center partnered for a day of virtual skills-based volunteering.
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.
In six months, a team of Fidelity Investments skills-based volunteers helped The Partnership for Successful Living develop a new IT infrastructure roadmap.
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.
When I say ‘no,’ it allows other people to say ‘yes.’ Oftentimes I find that when you say ‘yes’ to everything, you actually deny other people the opportunity to say ‘yes.’
The talent is there, but we need to proactively go out and look for it and we also need to be thoughtful about creating diverse entry points for talent.
Diversity and inclusion takes a lot of shapes and sizes and forms and if we can [amplify or broaden our communities], we’re more creative, we’re more innovative, we’re more perceptive and we’re all more successful.
Small acts can really change the way we feel about our jobs and therefore how well we perform them.
There is something incredibly powerful about showing up for a young person time and time again… It is one of the most enriching things you’ll find in life.
