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The Best Gift a Nonprofit Can Get: Challenge How You Give Back This Holiday Season

“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 participated in a pilot skills-based volunteer project organized by Medtronic this year in Chennai, India.  The Medtronic Foundation piloted this global pro bono program to address diabetic caregiver awareness in emerging markets, deploying the skills, talents and passion of its employees to give back to a cause they care about.

Envisioning Pro Bono as the Future of Corporate Service

This post was contributed by Michelle Nunn, CEO of Points of Light, and includes her reflections on A Billion + Change's Forum at the White House on June 27, 2012.

HP is Hacking for Humanity and You Can Too

This guest blog post was submitted by Marlon Evans, Strategic Partnerships, Hewlett-Packard and Elizabeth Sabet, Director of SecondMuse, and builds on remarks given during a campaign webinar held on February 29 discussing marathon models of skills-based volunteer programs. This post explores HP’s role in Random Hacks of Kindness, a global consortium of innovators developing open source solutions for the social good.

On Being the Desmond Tutu of Service

As I headed toward the Potomac this weekend for a walk with my dog in one of the great parks that preserve old civil war forts in my hometown of Arlington, I heard the end of an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the radio.  I was so taken with his charming voice, insatiable enthusiasm and deep wisdom, that I would encourage you to give it a listen.

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The Best Job in America

Jenny Lawson is the Executive Director of A Billion + Change.

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