How can organizations effectively maintain team cohesion and connectivity in an online work environment, and what strategies or tools are most conducive to achieving this?
Spring Skills for Cities will connect corporate volunteers with leading Texas-based nonprofits focused equity to find solutions to their most pressing capacity-building challenges.
Common Impact’s Fall 2022 Skills for Cities event – held during National Pro Bono Week – connected corporate volunteers with leading nonprofits focused on climate justice, racial equity, and sustainability to find solutions to their most pressing capacity-building challenges. An incredible group of 70 volunteers from eight companies and leaders from ten nonprofits collaborated at …
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CEO Leila Saad shares predictions for the future of work, strategies for reconciling gaps between employee expectations and what employers are willing to provide, and more.
Skills for Cities connects corporate volunteers with leading nonprofits focused on climate justice, racial equity, and sustainability to find solutions to their most pressing capacity-building challenges.
Hispanic Heritage Month is also a time to re-examine the issues and struggles of marginalized communities, affirm their contributions, and recommit to championing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our communities and workplace.
“Skills-based volunteering gives me another opportunity to explore who I am in a professional context. It allows me to bring more of myself to work, stretch my skills in new areas, and gain confidence in areas outside my core expertise.”
Increasingly, employees choose to work for companies with robust Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and programs. Inclusive work environments promote employee satisfaction and better work culture, leading to positive outcomes such as hitting business goals, faster innovation, and outperforming KPIs.
How can employers not just talk about their values but also take tangible, meaningful actions that show their employees and their communities that they are serious about making an impact? Skills-based volunteering.
The skills-based volunteering movement has continued to gain momentum as employers seek opportunities for virtual volunteering, remote team building, and talent development.
