Greater Giving

AUGUST 13, 2024

While many challenges arise, one stands out as the most significant: recruiting, training, and retaining volunteers. A staggering 52% of school fundraising professionals report managing volunteers as their biggest hurdle. Burnout : Overworked volunteers can become disillusioned and leave.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

10-year retrospective Credit: GregTheFine – Outsized Marketing for Mid-Size Nonprofits A simple promotion – fill a bucket with ice and water and encourage friends, followers, partners, volunteers, and others to dump it on themselves – reaped millions for the ALS Assoc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. Volunteer Alliance Projects. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Empowerment is unconditional. Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs. Tailor your offering to the real skills and characteristics of your users, not how you’d like them to be. You can’t force people to volunteer. People make technology work. Keep it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

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. Next, she asked for a volunteer to come to the front of the room and read their card. She modeled reading hers.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Defining ‘community service’ broadly Based on surveys and focus groups, Leveraging the Potential of Youth Service found that young people ages 18 to 25 defined “community service” broadly, beyond volunteering with a nonprofit organization.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn. Leverage fundraising tools like Flipcause to raise funds on social media by creating and promoting engaging campaigns, utilizing event registration tools, and offering volunteer opportunities.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. We wanted to do something different and go beyond short term relief.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Measuring volunteer impact benefits more that your program: it empowers YOU. The life of a volunteer manager can feel lonely. This purpose often means we are the only ones in charge of scheduling and coordinating volunteers. As volunteer managers, we know this to be true of our volunteers, right?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. Cheryl Timoney (CT): At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a huge focus on the shift to virtual and engaging volunteers and the community through digital means.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We got the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Elizabeth Dove, the Director of Corporate Citizenship for Volunteer Canada. 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!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

They’re looking for creative ways to retain staff, keep them happy and engaged, deal with burnout, bridge skills gaps, and implement new technology to help it all come together. Bridging Skills Gaps. Nonprofits can also support retention by helping current employees build new skills or upgrade existing ones.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Smooth Transition's life skills development and educational training increase levels of employability. Smooth Transition, Inc., Breaking Harmful Cycles. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Volunteering 100,000 hours and using employees' skills to help nonprofits run more effectively and reach more people. With this in mind, SAP donates their products and services through TechSoup but also connects their employees with organizations to provide them with volunteer help in devising technology solutions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. Kellogg Foundation , PM is no longer about proving something works, but about generating information to better understand how and why programs work.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations. As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Our values serve as the foundation for all we do.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was frequently called upon or volunteered my perspectives during sessions and was even asked to be interviewed on camera about my experience. With such big differences in our funding models and cultures, it was fascinating to participate in discussions where I could offer a different perspective as the only American in attendance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was frequently called upon or volunteered my perspectives during sessions and was even asked to be interviewed on camera about my experience. With such big differences in our funding models and cultures, it was fascinating to participate in discussions where I could offer a different perspective as the only American in attendance.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

What I like to call the Battle for Collars, the corporate talent war is the competition employers are now facing to attract and retain highly skilled, highly effective employees. Flexible Giving Accounts allow you to give through your employees while maintaining control and oversight, creating empowerment as well as a wealth effect.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I hope that Mimosa’s answer regarding skills was helpful to you just now in answering your question. I was offered not only by my supervisor, but also had some volunteers that offered and served as references or connections for me as well. ” And that’s great. I, I like that. And I’m hoping. Joe, hi from the UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Too often being elected to an organization’s board becomes a sort of gift to friends or dedicated volunteers. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. During my tenure, each chair was carefully chosen to bring the leadership skills and personal qualities needed at the time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

and "Let's call that person, figure out if they'll volunteer to do that, put it down on paper, get the designers to bang it out, see if it works, and throw it out to the community." Most of our staff did start as a volunteer; about 90 percent of our staff started as volunteers. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They're walking away with skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. Someone is born with it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We put together a week-long curriculum to really help people do just that: find their purpose and then give them the skills. Because of my association with YouthAIDS, I have to access to NGOs, (non-governmental organizations), and got them to permit us to do volunteer work. What skills do you already have? It was so fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

And they’re helping in a very hands-on way — volunteer work for the digital era, perhaps, but also just plain a good idea: a general “tech support for telehealth” for people who don’t have a savvy niece or nephew to consult on such things.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

For us, that means focusing on the current volunteer experience and how to make it better, injecting autonomy and personal value into our culture, and solidifying our operations so they are easily accessible and efficient. Karen Delaney from Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County Amplifying our impact through engagement and storytelling.

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