Get on Board

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This is not a library sponsored event.

Description

This community connections event, formally known as Speed Boarding, will connect community organizations seeking skilled volunteers, passionate community trustees, and board members to those ready to serve. Leadership Pikes Peak loves connecting leaders (present and future) with each other. Your talents combined with your passion will serve an organization and ultimately our community, well.

This free event will link you to service in your community.

Community members: it's time to Get on a Board! You have talents, skills, and time an organization is ready for. If you are unsure of how or where to serve, you need to attend this event!  While in attendance, please visit each of the organization's tables to learn more about their mission. Their mission may align with your life mission, why, and passion. Do you know your why? Discover it here.  

Skills-based volunteering (SBV) is when volunteers contribute their professional skills, often providing expertise to directly supporting a nonprofit’s internal operations, strengthening the infrastructure and capacity of the organization. SBV is a powerful driver of social change, and is a unique approach to community engagement that matches employees’ workplace skills, expertise and knowledge with nonprofit needs to increase their impact in the community. By leveraging all types of skills, from IT support and strategic planning to marketing and HR consulting, SBV helps nonprofits expand their reach and become more sustainable, while allowing employees an opportunity to build their leadership skills, and give back to a cause they believe in.