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4 Ways Pro Bono Service Impacts Volunteers, Companies, Nonprofits & Schools

Saleforce Nonprofit

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. Effective pro bono volunteer programs — also known as skills-based volunteering — are built upon this idea. For volunteers, it enables skills development, and improves wellbeing by connecting their work with their purpose. Nonprofits and Schools Access Skills and Resources.

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Interview with Lindsay Gruber: Building Corporate Resilience through Pro Bono Volunteerism

Saleforce Nonprofit

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. You can partner with them to combine their subject matter expertise with your professional skills to help them pivot as needed. In a way, logistics helped people realize they could volunteer their skills.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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Goodwill is Leading Efforts to Help Get 1 Million People Employed Post-Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

Throughout her distinguished career working for prominent consumer goods companies like General Mills and The Kellogg Company, Crawley has been an avid champion for brand purpose — something that certainly won’t be lacking in her new role with Goodwill.

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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. They will also spend time with and encourage girls from local schools to explore tech careers.

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Future of Volunteering from the Volunteer Canada Perspective

Connection Cafe

Hear how she sheds light on the nonprofits they serve, how they’ve shifted their strategies, how companies can support in innovative ways through volunteering, and more! With less traditional volunteering roles available, how are companies supporting non-profits through employee engagement? If so, why? I certainly hope so!

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How To Enable Your Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.