Skills-Based Volunteers at an OPB Pledge Drive

Yes You Have. Yes You Can. Yes You Will.

What is Skills-Based Volunteering?

A new definition of volunteering is emerging, and Boomers are leading the charge. Volunteers are increasingly willing to offer their wisdom and expertise to nonprofits and community organizations. These Skills-Based Volunteers have the potential to transform organizations to succeed in their missions.

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The Call To Service

You now have an unprecedented opportunity to serve your community while enhancing your life. You and your peers have more knowledge and experience than any volunteer force in history. The question from President Obama is: how will you serve? Now is the time for you to lead the charge.

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The New Volunteer Workforce

Boomers are ready for nonprofits, but are nonprofits ready to utilize the strengths and talents of this generation?

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Volunteer Through Life

Cynthia Dailey-Hewkin is a Skills-Based Volunteer with Life by Design NW and many other organizations. Hear about how she makes volunteering a part of her daily life.

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This Is What I Do

"She could be relaxing and playing golf and sitting in the sun in Central Oregon and enjoying her retirement, but every day Watt makes her way to her beloved Cleveland High School, hoping to make an impact with students and faculty in the same tough, disciplined, no-nonsense fashion she has done for 42 school years."

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