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Pledge Company Spotlight: PIMCO
“Tools for Tomorrow was the best class ever—more fun than my regular classes. Now I want to pursue a career in investment and banking.” You don’t often hear high school students rave about careers in...
View ArticleFrom Charitable Giving to Strategic Philanthropy—The Advisory Board Makes An...
Imagine receiving a new brand identity your nonprofit could use to launch a rebranding of your organization—for free. Or imagine engaging a team of your best and brightest employees to research and...
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AT&T Pledge Company Spotlight: Aspire Mentoring Academy
AT&T Employees Mobilize to Mentor"This volunteer opportunity enables me to guide a student who might not get one-on-one direction and it also makes me feel good that I am making a difference in a...
View ArticleThe Best Gift a Nonprofit Can Get: Challenge How You Give Back This Holiday...
“It was a mind-blowing, hair on fire, sleep-when-I’m-dead experience. The people we’ve worked with are incredible, the need is unimaginable, the experience indelible,” said Lane Desborough, who...
View ArticleStepping Up to Meet Community Priorities Through Pro Bono Service
A Billion + Change Comes to Dallas, Jan. 23.“Far too often the business community has been divorced from education,” said Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, at a luncheon hosted by the Dallas...
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Pledge Company Spotlight: AltruHelp
Building a Community for Millennial Volunteerism and Civic EngagementWhat do you get when you combine three passionate social entrepreneurs, Shel Silverstein’s “Giving Tree” and a generational gap in...
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Sneak Peak! Catchafire and MTV’s Nonprofit Makeover: Where Talent & Purpose Meet
In 2012, Catchafire issued a call to 600 nonprofits for the opportunity to win a makeover by MTV.Who was the lucky winner? It was the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), a nonprofit that...
View ArticleKicking Off National Volunteer Week With the Power of Pro Bono
There's no higher-impact way for a business to give back to society than through pro bono. For nonprofits and communities, the value of skilled support can be 500% greater than the value of traditional...
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From “Tech Teach-Ins” to HR support, Bay Area companies are shaping the...
When Samanthia Achuff, a Salesforce.com employee, volunteered to train nonprofits in technology at a “Tech Teach-in” last April, she didn’t know that her two hours would eventually turn into 330. “It’s...
View ArticleA Billion + Change Inspires Largest Commitment of Pro Bono Service in History
At Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service this week, A Billion + Change will celebrate a defining milestone -- we have inspired the largest commitment of pro bono service in history!...
View ArticleKey Insights and Opportunities from "Service Unites"
In June, A Billion + Change made history. Hundreds of pledges and partners gathered in Washington, D.C. at Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service to celebrate mobilizing more than $2...
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Pledge Company Spotlight: Best Buy's Geek Squad Summer Academy
About eight years ago, Robert Stephens, the visionary entrepreneur who started Geek Squad, saw a need for kids to get technical education and created a tech camp for youth at a school in North...
View ArticleManaging Pro Bono for Success
This is the second in a three-part series on the “3 Ms of Skills-Based Volunteering.” This series will address the aspects of pro bono engagements that businesses are least ready to grapple with:...
View ArticleTop 5 Ideas for Pro Bono Week
Join us in celebrating Pro Bono Week 2013 by taking an action to lend your best and brightest talent to causes in your community. We've lined up five top pro bono ideas you can take action on right...
View ArticleThis #GivingTuesday, Give the Greatest Gift of All
Here at A Billion+Change, we’re excited for the week of #GivingTuesday for so many reasons! Just last week, Thanksgiving brought many of us together with our friends and families for fun, food and...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Helps Communities Put Families First...
Luz, a recent immigrant from the Dominican Republic, didn’t feel like she had the right skills to help her daughter Mirabel with her homework. Struggling to learn English, Luz was having many battles...
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