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This post is written by Jim Corcoran, the president and chief executive of the Fairfax Chamber, which represents 650 businesses with nearly 500,000 employees in Northern Virginia.

By Dr. Rebecca Thomley, Chief Executive Officer, Orion Associates.

Building a Community for Millennial Volunteerism and Civic Engagement

“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.

Since 1969, Hale House Center has been dedicated to delivering high quality educational and support services to children and families in need. Over the years, the number of families it serves has ballooned, creating a critical need for an IT system to coordinate the Center’s ever-expanding activities. As one Hale House official put it, “We have state-of-the-art technology…for 1978.”