skillCONNECT - The School Partnership Accelerator

This skillCONNECT is a highly structured, several hour event, designed to bring the expertise of business professionals to ten local schools facing business challenges. Each school has been selected to be a part of BVM's School Partnership Accelerator program. Projects include helping school staff with challenges related to marketing, staffing, budgeting, supply distribution, technology, and more.

This special in-person event features breakfast, networking, and sweeping views of the Inner Harbor in CareFirst’s Canton office building. Free parking will be provided.

skillCONNECT is a special event led by that connects community-based organizations to a team of skilled volunteers for discussion, consulting, ideation, and development of solutions to general business challenges. Volunteers represent employers from around the region and come with a wide range of professional skills in marketing, operations, finance, IT, HR, sales, legal, real estate, and more.

As a volunteer consultant, you can expect skillCONNECT to be an engaging, structured, pro bono session managed by Business Volunteers Maryland. Volunteers will be divided into teams with varying professional skillsets that cater to the nonprofits/schools’ specific needs. Then, nonprofit/school leaders will bring a business challenge they are facing to their teams. Teams will be guided through a design thinking process in order to provide a structured, efficient, and experience that lends itself to tangible takeaways for the concerned organization.

BVM asks you to submit your background and skillset through this registration form: https://airtable.com/appgLu6OquKdSFKdd/shrbmO9xdopWBCJD3. Please note that you are not registered for the event until you complete this step. BVM will place you on a team we feel you are best suited for. We appreciate you being open to working with any of the amazing organizations selected for this event!

From experience, BVM can promise that EVERYONE has knowledge they can contribute to a skillCONNECT session. Many of the professional skills you might take for granted are invaluable to nonprofits and schools! Tens of volunteers before you have expressed nervousness and feelings of imposter syndrome, only to be amazed by how much they can offer in these events.

• Leverage your professional skills and expertise while giving back. Remember, the professional skills you have and use every day are invaluable for a nonprofit or school.
• Learn about incredible community-based organizations, their work, and a behind-the-scenes understanding of the challenges they face.
• Build and practice leadership skills and professional skills.
• Feel good while giving back—it’s a different, really rewarding way to volunteer!

At BVM, we help companies and individuals impact their community in three ways:

• BUILD through trainings and education
• CONNECT through engagements and experience
• CONSULT though impact and leadership

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