Theresa M. Ellis co-founded Common Impact in 2000 with Zach Goldstein, both graduates of Dartmouth College.
[2] Many of the projects between corporate employees and nonprofit organizations involve improving databases, creating new marketing materials, and restructuring human resources tools.
Businesses are increasingly recognizing the importance of volunteering professional skills as more employees want to help their communities [6] More than 400 corporate employees from companies such as Cisco, Genworth Financial, Fidelity Investments and State Street Corporation have volunteered their skills by working with Common Impact.
Some examples of projects Fidelity Investments volunteers worked on are fundraising, case management, databases, and website design.
The employee engagement relationships Common Impact fosters have translated into an estimated 9,000 hours of skilled volunteer time donated to nonprofit organizations.