Each year, the Curiosity Cube™, a mobile science lab from MilliporeSigma, embarks on a mission to spark curiosity in STEM among students ages 8–13. In 2025, 2,069 volunteers taught lessons that engaged 56,035 young minds.
A ground-breaking study by Benevity Labs examined the behaviour of more than 2 million employees from 118 enterprise companies to determine the impact of workplace giving and volunteering on employee retention. The quantitative findings support what we've intuitively known for years: employee-centric corporate Goodness programs significantly reduce turnover. DOWNLOAD THE FULL GOODNESS ENGAGEMENT STUDY.
When your schedule is crammed full of work obligations and caregiving for family members, how do you squeeze in some much-needed “me time?”
If you take the advice of Domenica Robinson, Humana’s 2017 Volunteer of the Year, you’d find a volunteer activity that makes you feel happy and connected to your local community.
It’s not enough to be reactive when hurricanes strike— for hurricane season, the best defense is a good offense. Advance preparation ensures that aid can be delivered more quickly, ultimately saving more lives.
Taryn Sauthoff, a Viacom employee in New York, is the embodiment of Talent for Good at work. She applied her web development skills to help YoungMoms, a non-profit organization that supports pregnant and parenting young women in rural Pennsylvania, build a new website. Sauthoff completed the volunteer project in a few months and continues to collaborate with the organization.
On May 29, 2018, the team at VolunteerMatch walked through: Why it’s important to give your employees choice in your volunteer program, how to balance employee choice with company-sponsored cause areas, how the VolunteerMatch Network connects employees with causes that are meaningful to them, and how VolunteerMatch’s custom integrations can serve the interests of both your company and its individual employees, while saving you time and money. Miss the webinar? Watch the recording.
Rather than reading from a science book, kids got to do hands-on experiments and learn about cells. Organizers said the goal of the Curiosity Cube is to spark an interest in science and create a new generation of problem-solvers.
This true story begins with a strange orange glow in the sky that awakened me at 1:00am on the morning of Oct 9th, 2017. Stepping outside into a howling wind, I watched in horror as a huge wildfire burned on the distant ridge. The wind was blowing away from us, so I was very concerned about our neighbors below the ridge in Potter Valley, never dreaming that at the same time the Redwood Complex Fire was racing around the bottom of the ridge and heading straight to Frey Vineyards and engulfing the only paved road out...
"They are learning the basic foundation of what a cell is at the virtual reality station where they actually get to dive into a cell ... We are also looking at 3-D printing, because we are actually talking a little bit more about how we are doing bio-printing, so actually 3-D printing with cells in order to help people who potentially need a new organ," Dowd said.
Jan Kirwan, an Associate Director at Barclays Corporate Banking, volunteers for the Seashell Trust, a Manchester-based charity that helps children who are unable to communicate because of a severe disability. Jan tells us how she marshalled a team of 150, raised £100,000 – and got her whole office talking about citizenship and engagement.
Pro bono service has the potential to shift technology adoption and implementation in the social sector. The Taproot Foundation, in collaboration with VMware Foundation, released a new supplement to Transforming Technology Pro Bono that will ensure nonprofits can maximize the impact technology pro bono can have on their organizations.
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