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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.

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 create a pitch presentation for a high-performing charter school—with 24 hours’ notice.

Whether it’s by organizing a weekend-long marathon session of pro bono service projects for local nonprofits, creating a virtual internship program for students to prepare them for careers in the social sector, or building coalitions of businesses to mentor disconnected youth, small business that have pledged to join A Billion + Change have demonstrated innovation, creativity and passion for improving communities through pro bono service.