Find out how a corporate skills-based volunteering program can help you retain talents and enhance your reputation.
Skills-based Volunteering and Collaboration
Whether you are an individual interested in skills-based volunteering or an organization looking to recruit skills-based volunteers, these articles and resources can help you enhance your individual endeavors or organizational programming to create greater, more meaningful impact.
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Why Skills-based Volunteering?
Skills-based volunteering benefits all parties involved. Learn more about how skills-based volunteering can help your organization build capacity, you as an individual advance personal and career growth, and your corporate achieve ESG goals.
Find out how skills-based volunteers can help your organization build capacity.
Find out how you can advance your career and improve your health through skills-based volunteering.
Benefits of a Skills-based Volunteering Journey
Leveraging your skills and expertise to help social impact organizations build capacity comes with many benefits, including physical and mental well-being, career advancement, and broader horizons. Read our resources on the benefits of skills-based volunteering here.
Skills-Based Volunteering: The New Executive Training Ground
Skills-based volunteering is increasingly used by corporations as the new executive training ground. Read about how this can be done.
How Volunteering Benefits Your Mental Health and Self-esteem As Well As Others: Hong Kong Volunteers’ Stories
Read this article by the SCMP’s Kate Whitehead to learn more about how volunteering benefits mental health and self-esteem.
The Strategic Side Gig – Harvard Business Review
Read this article by Ken Banta and Orlan Boston to learn more about the benefits of having a ‘strategic side gig’.
Optimizing Your Skilled Volunteering Programs
A well-designed skills-based volunteering program enables a social impact organization to build the capacity it needs to magnify its impact, and it enables corporates to retain their best talents while achieving ESG goals. Find out how you can optimize your volunteering programs from these resources!
Are you a skilled professional?
Reimagine Your Corporate Volunteer Program
Read this article from Harvard Business Review Home and know more about how skilled volunteers in corporate works and support nonprofits.
Best Practices for Managing and Engaging Skilled Volunteers
Social impact organizations are on a mission to tackle society’s biggest challenges. Read this guide about managing and engaging with skilled volunteers.
Volunteers as Leaders
Access this guide by HandsOn Network to learn the why and how of cultivating volunteer leadership to benefit your organization and community.
How to Maximize Your Impact with Skills-based Volunteering
Read this resource by Common Impact to learn how you can build a skills-based volunteering program for your social impact organization.
The Promise of Skills-based Volunteering
Read this article by Christine Letts & Danielle Holly to learn about the value of skills-based volunteering and how you can build a successful program.
Engaging Skills-based Volunteers
Read this resource by 501 Commons and learn about why and how to engage skills-based volunteers for the long-term growth of your organization.
Stakeholder
Find out how you can start planning or enhance your stakeholder management strategy to ensure your organization is addressing the needs of the communities you serve.
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Broad Collaboration
Building broad, strategic collaboration is essential to the survival and success of social impact organizations. Find out how you can kick-start the process and what to know when planning for the process.
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Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration
Read this resource by Heather McLeod Grant, Kate Wilkinson and Mickey Butts and learn more about building capacity for sustained collaboration.
Exploring Greater Impact Through Strategic Partnerships
Read this guide by The Power of Possibility to learn how you can create greater impact by establishing strategic partnerships.
Social Sector Survival in a Post-virus World: the Shared-Impact Model
How can social impact organizations and the social impact space thrive post-COVID? Read more about our Shared-Impact Model.
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