Skilled Volunteering Journey Archives - Foundation for Shared Impact https://www.shared-impact.com/category/knowledge-hub/skilled-based-volunteering-and-collaboration/skilled-volunteering-journey-skilled-based-volunteering-and-collaboration/ We help the people who help people. Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:06:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.shared-impact.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Skilled Volunteering Journey Archives - Foundation for Shared Impact https://www.shared-impact.com/category/knowledge-hub/skilled-based-volunteering-and-collaboration/skilled-volunteering-journey-skilled-based-volunteering-and-collaboration/ 32 32 140733588 Skills-Based Volunteering: The New Executive Training Ground https://www.shared-impact.com/knowledge-hub/skills-based-volunteering-the-new-executive-training-ground/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skills-based-volunteering-the-new-executive-training-ground Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:59:19 +0000 https://www.shared-impact.com/?p=11734 Skills-based volunteering is increasingly used by corporations as the new executive training ground. Read about how this can be done.

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]]> Building employees successfully able to lead is a critical indicator of a corporation’s future performance. By exposing employees to new and different contexts where they need to collaborate with diverse teams to problem-solve, skills-based volunteering is the new executive training ground that enables you to achieve your corporate ESG and CSR goals.

Read the article, Skills-Based Volunteering: The New Executive Training Ground, to learn how some of the world’s largest corporations are using skills-based volunteering as their new executive training ground.

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]]> 11734 How Volunteering Benefits Your Mental Health and Self-esteem As Well As Others: Hong Kong Volunteers’ Stories https://www.shared-impact.com/knowledge-hub/how-volunteering-benefits-your-mental-health-and-self-esteem-as-well-as-others-hong-kong-volunteers-stories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-volunteering-benefits-your-mental-health-and-self-esteem-as-well-as-others-hong-kong-volunteers-stories Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:29:07 +0000 https://www.shared-impact.com/?p=11627 Read this article by the SCMP's Kate Whitehead to learn more about how volunteering benefits mental health and self-esteem.

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]]> 11627 The Strategic Side Gig – Harvard Business Review https://www.shared-impact.com/knowledge-hub/skilled-based-volunteering-and-collaboration/the-strategic-side-gig-harvard-business-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-strategic-side-gig-harvard-business-review Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:49:37 +0000 https://www.shared-impact.com/?p=11617 Read this article by Ken Banta and Orlan Boston to learn more about the benefits of having a 'strategic side gig'.

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]]> “I’ve found that the busier you are, the more you can take on, and you definitely get better at your job. Every time I take a week to go facilitate the program for these kids, my batteries are recharged. I get inspired. It makes me think thoughts I never would have had otherwise. It broadens my scope of empathy and understanding,” said Keith Krach, serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Ariba, and former CEO and chairman of DocuSign.

Read this resource written by Ken Banta, the founder of the Vanguard Network, and Orlan Boston, a partner in the Ernst & Young LLP Global Health Sciences practice, to learn more about the benefits of having a ‘strategic side gig’, a.k.a. a meaningful and mutually beneficial skills-based volunteering initiative.

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