4 Ways Skills-Based Volunteering Benefits Small Businesses

Running a small business gives you a range of skills: bookkeeping, marketing, social media strategy, human resources, and management. This expertise is what makes your company successful, but you can also use it to help your community by creating a skills-based volunteering program.

Skills-based volunteering involves business owners and their teams offering their knowledge and skills to local nonprofits. And it’s a win-win for everyone involved.

Charitable organizations tap into professional skills they need to further their missions. Companies expand their knowledge and develop employees’ skills in real-world settings, according to Common Impact, a nonprofit that connects businesses with nonprofits.

“It helps people understand the skills and value of the skills they already have by using them in a service context,” said Rachel Hutchisson, CEO of Common Impact.

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