The Community Design Collaborative is featured in the latest edition of the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal. Connecting Dreamers and Designers, written by Collaborative staffer Haley Loram and Bernard Brown, presents the Collaborative’s special brand of highly-skilled volunteerism.

Nonprofits and corporations tend to focus on philanthropy as monetary donations rather than skills-based volunteering that takes advantage of their employees talents and abilities.  Nonprofits tend to be unaware of pro bono services offered  by for-profit companies, while corporations often under estimate the impact of skilled volunteers. The Collaborative works to fill this gap by helping nonprofits leverage the skills of design professionals and creating connections between design firms and community organizations.

Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal is the first online publication to bring a public focus to social innovators and their nonprofit organizations, foundations and social sector businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area, to recognize their successes and encourage others around the country to strive for similar results. As a forum for the region’s foremost social innovators, the Journal shares their expertise, strategies and ideas about topics such as leadership, human capital and disruptive innovation.

Read the article “The Community Design Collaborative: Connecting Dreamers and Designers“