LinkedIn Lists Opportunities for Skilled Volunteers

February 10, 2014

LinkedIn wants to make it easier for its members to put their professional skills to use for social good.

The social network has created a new Volunteer Marketplace, which features service opportunities offered by BoardSource, Taproot Foundation, VolunteerMatch, and other organizations that aggregate such positions.

Nonprofits can also search for LinkedIn members who have expressed an interest in either serving on boards or volunteering their professional expertise. The company says that in the last six months, more than 600,000 people have shown an interest in getting involved.

To get there: Go to volunteer.linkedin.com.

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Sarah Frostenson was the lead analyst for four annual projects at The Chronicle of Higher Education, including: Corporate Giving, Foundations, Endowments and Donor-Advised Funds. She built the databases powering many of The Chronicle’s interactives. Her reporting included: data trends in the nonprofit sector, donor-advised funds as vehicles of charitable wealth, transparency of foundations and digitization of nonprofit data.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.