Pro Bono as Currency: Deloitte Survey Finds Nonprofits and Corporations Missing Opportunity to Offset Decline in Giving Dollars

Overwhelmingly, corporate grant makers (77%) and nonprofits (75%) place a high value on employee skills. Further, 95 percent of nonprofits agree they are in greater need of pro bono or skilled volunteer support. However, these statements are inconsistent with corporations' efforts to contribute skilled volunteers and nonprofits' efforts to seek them. Approximately one-third (35%) of nonprofits do not have the appropriate infrastructure needed to successfully deploy volunteers. Further, nearly one quarter (24%) of nonprofits surveyed have no one in charge of volunteer management or have someone in charge with less than three years of experience (23%). Similarly, more than one-in-four (26%) corporations have no one to oversee an employee volunteer program. Moreover, 17 percent of corporations have no employee volunteer program at all.