Make an Impact While Growing Your Career
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We are living through an era of unprecedented uncertainty and change for the nonprofit sector. Many nonprofit leaders are stretched thin, trying to serve their missions while navigating complex internal challenges—staff burnout, limited resources, and shifts in strategy and people resource needs as they navigate an uncertain environment. This is where we as HR leaders can step in: by volunteering our skills, we can help nonprofits tackle these crucial issues and more effectively serve their causes and communities. In the process, we’ll build and diversify our skills, gain valuable experience serving different kinds of organizations, and build meaningful relationships.
As many people search for ways to provide meaningful help to those in their communities or farther afield, skills-based volunteering has emerged as a powerful vehicle not only for giving back but also for personal and professional development.
TroopHR has partnered with Catchafire to provide access to high-quality, curated volunteer opportunities for HR professionals, which leverage HR skills and expertise to address highly salient needs in the nonprofit community. Catchafire provides a marketplace for matching skilled volunteers with structured, bounded volunteer projects at nonprofits.
By engaging in volunteer work that utilizes specific professional skills, HR leaders can enhance their expertise, broaden their networks, and gain invaluable hands-on experience in diverse real-world settings – while also making an impact on causes that matter to them. HR-related projects on the Catchafire platform might look like:
Volunteering your HR expertise isn’t just generous, it’s also deeply developmental. When HR professionals lend their time and skills through platforms like Catchafire, they often gain as much as they give. Here are three powerful ways skills-based volunteering can support your own professional growth:
1. Stretch beyond your comfort zone
Many HR professionals specialize in a particular area, whether it’s talent acquisition, compliance, or employee relations. Volunteering gives you the chance to flex into adjacent skills in a low-risk, high-reward environment. For example, someone focused on hiring in their day job might take on a leadership coaching project, helping a nonprofit executive navigate team dynamics or burnout. These stretch assignments help build confidence and versatility, qualities every strategic HR leader needs.
2. Experience a new kind of workplace
If you’re used to a structured corporate environment, working with a small nonprofit team can be an incredible opportunity to develop as a strategist. Many nonprofits operate with limited HR infrastructure, which means you’re often called upon to serve as a strategic advisor, problem-solver, and coach all at once. It’s a chance to apply the full range of your expertise, build entrepreneurial muscles, and collaborate directly with passionate and inspiring leaders.
3. Keep your skills sharp during transitions
Whether you’re between roles, returning to work after a break, or exploring new directions in your career, skills-based volunteering is a great way to stay engaged and relevant. It helps you maintain your professional rhythm, build your resume, and even discover new passions or directions in your career.
If you have been craving more meaningful impact in your work, looking for opportunities to stretch into new skills, or searching for an opportunity to serve a cause that’s meaningful to you, Catchafire can help you begin that journey today. The difference you make could transform not just a nonprofit, but your career, too.
Volunteer for a one hour consultation call or long-term project. With over 150 project types, customize your support based on your skills and availability.
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