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Skills-Based and Pro Bono Volunteering
Use your professional skills to help nonprofits fulfill their mission. Skills-Based Volunteering provides an invaluable service to our nonprofit partners by allowing them to do more with less.
Why Volunteer? Skilled volunteers have many reasons for serving. Here are some trends in skilled volunteers:
- In job transition, looking to keep their skills current.
- Retired or have free time, and want to use professional skills
- Students looking to learn new skills and build on their education
- Employees or associations looking for Pro-Bono projects
Use the Advanced Search to apply filters e.g., location.
Common skills include:
- Board Development
- Strategic Development
- Marketing Strategy
- Financial Management
- Social Media Strategy
- Software Development
- Organizational Management
- Operations and Process Improvement
- Web Development
- Training and Professional Development
- Content Marketing and Blogging
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Traditional Volunteerism |
Skills-Based Volunteerism |
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Tutor a student |
Design a tracking program to manage tutors & mentors |
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Serve at a food pantry |
Set up a database to help track and evaluate donations |
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Sell raffle tickets at a fundraising event |
Develop a strategic plan to increase profitability and donor support |
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Answer phones, enter data |
Create a work processes and implementing a plan for improvement |
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Donate items to resale shop |
Coming up with a marketing strategy to increase customer base |
For more information, contact Chris
chris@handsonsuburbanchicago.org
847-228-1320 x 111
