Readiness Roadmap. Community Involvement. Deloitte believes it has a powerful role to play in strengthening our communities. Our strong culture of service and authentic desire to make meaningful social impact, that also delivers significant business value, is at the heart of all our community involvement initiatives. Whether times are good or bad, we believe that we have more to offer than just our checkbook. Our deep commitment to skills-based volunteering , pro-bono work , and thought leadership serves as the foundation of our multi-faceted community involvement strategy: – We use our innovative thinking to help nonprofits deal with strategic, operational and financial challenges so they can do more to help more people and communities in need.
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How To Launch A Skills-Based Volunteering Program. We already know that corporate volunteering campaigns have gotten smarter and more targeted as companies embrace skills-based volunteering (SBV).
The challenge now is to tap employees’ most unique, valuable assets--the very finest of their job skills--to address community needs in deeply impactful ways. At Morgan Stanley, our SBV program, called the Strategy Challenge, is in its fourth year. The Strategy Challenge matches teams of employees with 15 nonprofits; previous partners include Feeding America, Voices of September 11, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Employees use their professional skill sets to provide strategic advice on issues critical to the nonprofits’ business models and growth strategies, drawing on the same analytical skills they use to serve clients in their day jobs. How can you design a SBV program that works for your company and how to find the support to get it off the ground? Go after what your workforce really knows. The Jericho Road Project. Common Impact. SBV - CNCS. The resources of nonprofits across the nation are being stretched like never before, with the country seeing both a significant increase in needs and a measurable decrease in the financial resources available to meet those needs.
In order to not only maintain current levels of service, but to increase their capacity to meet the growing challenges, nonprofits must access a variety of skills and expertise that may not be available within the organizations themselves. At the same time, the corporate sector is beginning to recognize that it can create a greater impact on critical social issues by offering its own best resource – its professional expertise. At the intersection of the challenges to be met and the expert human resources to meet those challenges is skills-based volunteering (SBV). A number of organizations, including Points of Light Institute, Taproot Foundation, and the Corporation for National and Community Service are at the forefront of the SBV movement. A Billion + Change. SBV - HandsOn Network. What is Skills-Based Volunteering (SBV)?
Skills-based volunteering (SBV) is an innovative approach that is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful driver of both social impact and business value. Skills-based volunteerism utilizes the skills, experience, talents and education of volunteers and matches them with the needs of nonprofits. Byleveraging all types of knowledge and expertise, SBV helps build and sustain nonprofits’ capacity to achieve their missions successfully. Individual skilled volunteers may offer their particular expertise to a nonprofit agency, while corporate SBV involves employee volunteers working on projects for a nonprofit organization through a structured program developed and managed by their employer.
Case-studies we have developed can illustrate the various forms of skills-based volunteerism. Pro Bono Many people are already familiar with the term pro bono, and understand that it has to do with “doing work for free.” SBV - Points of Light. Skills-based volunteerism is service by individuals or groups that capitalizes on personal talents or core business skills, experience or education.
More and more, agencies are struggling to meet their bottom line. In fact, a 2006 Deloitte/Points of Light IMPACT study indicated that: Nine out of 10 nonprofits realize that volunteer skills are extremely valuable Seventy-seven percent of nonprofit organizations believe they would benefit from corporate volunteers Sixty-two percent work with corporate volunteers and only 12 percent of agencies align roles with skill This gap means that many agencies are missing out on a precious resource — the talent of individual volunteer leaders and corporate teams who can use their skills and products to increase the capacity and effectiveness of nonprofits.