Skills-Based Volunteering

Turn your team’s talent into tangible impact. In this facilitated consultation lab, participants collaborate with a nonprofit to tackle a real challenge, build new skills, spark fresh thinking, and walk away inspired.

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Turn your skills into volunteer superpowers!

Empower your team to create real-world impact through purpose-driven collaboration!

This immersive, hands-on, skills-based volunteering experience pairs corporate teams with nonprofits to solve real organizational challenges across marketing, communication, design, operations, and strategic planning. Participants receive background materials and a clear problem statement from their assigned nonprofit—then work together to ideate, strategize, and develop thoughtful recommendations the nonprofit can put into action right away.

Examples of skills-based volunteer opportunities include:

Reviewing and improving a sponsorship deck to attract new partners
Designing a sustainable social media & content strategy
Developing cybersecurity awareness resources to protect seniors from digital scams
Analyzing why a website isn’t generating traffic and recommending SEO improvements

Throughout the skills volunteering session, participants strengthen leadership, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills, while gaining meaningful exposure to the nonprofit sector and the communities it serves.

Team size

6–10 participants per team

Time needed

90–120 minutes

Space requirement

The event requires a meeting room or virtual breakout spaces with tables for collaboration.

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Giving Back
Build Relationships
Improve Communication
Problem Solving

Tailoring

Nonprofits can be matched to align with team focus areas (e.g., marketing, finance, technology) or CSR focus areas (e.g., education, environment, health); event length and challenge complexity can be adjusted.

Skills-Based Volunteering FAQ

What is skills-based volunteering?

Skills-based volunteering is a form of corporate volunteering where employees use their professional expertise—like marketing, communication, design, operations, or strategic planning—to help nonprofits solve real organizational challenges. Instead of general volunteer tasks, participants work with a nonprofit’s background materials and problem statements to collaborate, ideate, and deliver actionable solutions. This type of volunteering benefits both the nonprofit, which gains high-value expertise, and the team, which strengthens leadership, collaboration, communication, and critical-thinking skills while making a meaningful impact in the community.

Why skills-based volunteering?

According to Points of Light, 87% of employees say skill-based volunteering helps them develop work-related skills, and companies that support it see many benefits like higher engagement, retention, and purpose alignment across teams.

The experience culminates in team presentations, where each group shares its insights and recommendations for the nonprofit. The result is a powerful exchange of perspectives and expertise: nonprofits receive valuable strategic support, and participants walk away energized, connected, and motivated by the difference they made, together.

Why use a skills-based volunteering agency?

Skills-based volunteering agencies can help you connect your employees with nonprofits in need of their specific skill sets. They coordinate with the nonprofit on which volunteer work is needed and when, so you simply need to show up on volunteer day with your team.

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