Mapping the frontiers of corporate social impact through research, field insights, and practitioner perspectives.
How two fifteen-minute windows determine whether volunteering transforms or merely occupies. Most programs skip these entirely. That omission is the biggest missed opportunity in corporate volunteering.
The hidden design flaw in corporate volunteering, and the call center study that proves it. A five-minute conversation with one person changed effort and revenue for an entire month. Nothing else changed. The only variable was proximity.
If something measurable happens inside the person who gives, are you paying attention to it? Are you designing for it? Or are you counting the gift and moving on?
The Makerspace is not a curriculum. It's a context — a set of conditions under which learning happens between practitioners who are doing real work together.