Integrating your lifestyle and skills with digital volunteering

Link to Article: https://www.straitstimes.com/business/the-rise-of-virtual-and-skills-based-volunteering-amid-pandemic

The needs of the vulnerable in Singapore are growing amid a pandemic that never seems to end.

But how, in this time of social distancing, can corporate volunteerism programmes continue giving?

Like many other aspects of our lives, they have shifted online. Companies and their employees are seizing opportunities from virtual and skills-based volunteering to support charities grappling with shrinking volunteer numbers and waning donations.

"With the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic further deepening existing inequalities identified within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," said IMPACT2030 co-founder Sue Stephenson in a September report, "the need for the private sector to respond with human capital and financial resources has never been greater."

IMPACT2030 is a business-led coalition that partners the United Nations to advance its SDGs through employee volunteering