Social Impact & Volunteering

From Olympic Glory to Community Impact: Sevran Will Welcome Paris 2024 Pool

International Olympic Committee

Social Impact & Volunteering

Intern Impact Day at Paramount: Through an Intern’s Lens

Paramount

VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: The JOBLINGE Mentors Team Helps Provide Access to Employment

Colleagues in Hamburg and Frankfurt partnered with the JOBLINGE Foundation to support over 124 people to find a job through mentoring and CV workshops, achieving 77% job placements as a result.

Better Together: Workplace Giving & Volunteering

Higher employee participation globally, a lighter administrative load and a cohesive user experience were the success indicators that a leading financial services company envisioned for their workplace giving and volunteering program.

But with their program split across two separate platforms—one for giving, another for volunteering—the search was on for a technology partner who could unify their program and help propel them toward their next-level goals.

Building More Resilient Communities | Taproot Foundation's Advisory Services Newsletter

In this edition of the Advisory Services newsletter, we share examples of how pro bono can help communities around the globe prepare for natural disasters. We discuss how to engage even your busiest employees in pro bono service. And we look at a pro bono program model that began in the U.S. and has been replicated successfully abroad.

Quick Consult: Getting Past the Myth of "Not Enough Time"

One of the most common concerns companies share when thinking about developing a pro bono program is that their employees are strapped for time. What they find, though, is that smart pro bono program design can go a long way to address this concern.

Sodexo Provides More Than 1,000 Meals to Homeless Veterans at San Diego Stand Down Event

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company committed to Quality of Life, provided more than 1,000 meals along with employment services for homeless veterans and support providers during the Stand Down event, June 29 through July 1 at San Diego High School in San Diego, CA. The 31st annual Stand Down program was hosted by Veterans Village of San Diego with support from the United States Marine Corps West Coast. Approximately 3,000 volunteers and 150 service providers assisted the 800 homeless veterans and families. More than 35 Sodexo volunteers hosted meals as well as offered employment services such as resume and job application assistance for the veterans.

VolunteerMatch and Verified Volunteers Join Forces

Strategic Partnership Brings Comprehensive Background Screening To More Than 120,000 Organizations & Millions of Volunteers

SROI Accreditation Training for Practitioners

This fall register for SROI Accreditation training in Toronto (October 16-17, 2018) and Calgary (November 6-7, 2018).

VMware Citizen Philanthropists Organize Bangalore E-Waste Drive

On July 21, 150 Citizen Philanthropists at VMware Bangalore designed a custom service learning project: door-to-door e-waste collection. The group divided into 12 teams to collect e-waste from the Koramangala neighborhood. Volunteers worked with local radio and newspaper, businesses, and social media influencers to promote the drive, and partnered with local nonprofits, Saahas and Ensyde, to facilitate recycling.

Prioritizing Enablers for Effective Community Forestry in Cameroon

Cameroon, in its Law 94/01 of 1994 on Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, supported local communities to engage in managing forests and benefit from them economically and environmentally. This provision in law allowed communities to have access to forests with the requirement that they obtained a legal status and signed an agreement with the government in which they committed to a set of conditions that maintained the state of the forest while creating livelihoods for local people.

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