Skills-Based Volunteers

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Are you interested in becoming a skills-based volunteer? Below is additional information on what is involved in this program and the matching process.

Why participate in Skills-Based Volunteering?

Skills-Based Volunteering offers flexibility and creativity – characteristics that are not often associated with volunteer projects. Additionally, there are many benefits to volunteering your time in this unique way including:

  • Volunteering on your schedule from the comfort of your home or office.
  • Building your resume or portfolio with skills-based projects.
  • Using your skills for good by developing sustainable deliverables and outcomes.
  • Strengthening your soft skills when working with others in another organization.
  • Learning about your community and the challenges it faces.

How to review available projects

As we have project requests from our nonprofit partners, we will post them on our website (tuw.org/skills-based-volunteers). If you are interested in being notified of projects that meet your expertise and skills, complete the webform on the same website so that we may contact you with project opportunities.

Nonprofit partners are able to submit project requests at any time so there may be times when there are multiple projects listed or none at all, especially as we build awareness of this program in the community.

Matching Process

Graphic that describes the Matching Process for volunteer projects. Step 1- Sourcing - Trident United Way will notify you when we have a potential project match for your skills. Step 2 - Match - When we have a potential match, we will share your infor via resume or LinkedIn with the project manager. Step 3 - Hand off/check ins - If the match is a greed upon then we will facilitat a transition to the project manager. If the match is not a good fit we will move back to Step 1.

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"It was a great honor to be asked to assist Pattison’s Academy with their Human Resources Systems needs. After doing my research and having my initial meeting with the key stakeholders, I immediately did all I could to give them the best experience ever. This experience indeed has proven that volunteering gives true enlightened satisfaction of self and that one can a make a difference through volunteering by simply saying “yes” when asked." - Tasha Singleton, Skills-Based Volunteer

Headshot photo of Tasha Singleton, Skills-Based Volunteer, wearing glasses, a white jacket and black shirt

Complete the form below to be added to our Skills-Based Volunteer network!

For questions about Skills-Based Volunteering email volunteer@tuw.org.