Skills-Based Volunteering
Skills-based volunteerism utilizes the skills, experience, talents and education of volunteers and matches them with the needs of non-profits and schools. By leveraging the talents and skills of community members and corporate partners, skills-based volunteering helps build non-profit capacity in order to achieve greater impact. Skills-based volunteers (SBV) can choose to use their personal or professional talents, work individually or in teams and take on long or short projects.
Examples of Skills-Based Volunteerism:
| Traditional Volunteerism | Skills-Based Volunteerism |
| Reading one on one with a first grade student twice a week | Designing and automating a volunteer tracking program that simplifies the paperwork process for volunteer managers in a school/district |
| Serving food at a food pantry | Setting up a database to help track and evaluate donations |
| Selling 50/50 raffle tickets at a fundraising event | Assessing logistics of a current fundraising event and developing a strategic plan to increase profitability and donor support |
| Answering the phones and filing information at a local non-profit | Analyzing work processes and implementing a plan for improvement |
| Helping sort through donated items at a non-profit resale shop | Coming up with a marketing strategy to increase customer base |
News and Resources
Seeing Volunteers in a New Light
More than a Helping Hand for Charities
SBV - A New Generation of Volunteering
Skills-Based Volunteer Opportunities
Find skills-based volunteer opportunities on HandsOn Connect!
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