Common Impact Tool Spotlight

Check out Common Impact's tools and resources to support your pro bono journey. Whether you are a nonprofit leader thinking about engaging skills-based volunteers, a corporate employee looking to develop or grow a skills-based initiative at your company, or a purpose-driven employee looking to make an impact in your company - you have come to the right place!

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Volunteering & Community

Free Webinar: An Introduction to Skills-Based Volunteering
“The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteerism" is a free webinar from Common Impact and Revere Software that will explain what skills-based volunteering and pro bono consulting are, as well as how to create and deploy successful programs.

Research & Reports

Common Impact Study: Making Long-Term Impact Through a Day of Skilled Service
We recently analyzed three years of data from the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge and are excited to share the results of this program for the nonprofits, employees and the communities it supports. Our new paper - Making Long-Term Impact through a Day of Service – shares data, case studies and lessons learned from our work with the Charles Schwab Pro Bono Challenge and is available to help organizations find new ways to engage volunteers in shorter-term skilled engagements that provide measurable longer-term results

Volunteering & Community

Five Steps to Building a Healthy Relationship for Nonprofit and Corporate Partners
Throughout the year, Common Impact has been taking a closer look at The Knitting Factor as a concept that best explains effective skills-based partnerships. Today we explore the sticky relationship component as a way to describe meaningful partnerships between companies and nonprofits that sustain far past an initial volunteer opportunity. Creating these relationships takes intention, time and an appreciation of the knowledge, resources and needs of both parties.

Volunteering & Community

Developing Nonprofit Leaders Through Skills-Based Volunteering
At Common Impact, we’ve seen first-hand how leveraging skills-based volunteering to create intentional and thoughtful development opportunities for nonprofit staff can solve this challenge. Skilled volunteerism can be a great way to invest in talent, without having to seek the funding for it.

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