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This post is written by Jim Corcoran, the president and chief executive of the Fairfax Chamber, which represents 650 businesses with nearly 500,000 employees in Northern Virginia.

This post by Ryan Scott, Founder and CEO of Causecast, was originally published in The Huffington Post, highlighting the San-Fransisco based Fuse Corps.

Since 1969, Hale House Center has been dedicated to delivering high quality educational and support services to children and families in need. Over the years, the number of families it serves has ballooned, creating a critical need for an IT system to coordinate the Center’s ever-expanding activities. As one Hale House official put it, “We have state-of-the-art technology…for 1978.”

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Kim Cardenas was a Casualty Processor at Allstate Insurance Company. She had joined Allstate because she wanted to work for a good company, and had been there almost three years.  But Kim was also a victim of domestic violence and financial abuse. “I was ashamed and I felt embarrassed because my marriage wasn’t working.  Financially, we were devastated. I was being kept out of the financial decisions that affected the overall picture of our lives.”

Last week, the campaign took to Pittsburgh, PA where I was privileged enough to keynote at a morning meeting of the city’s Corporate Volunteer Council to introduce A Billion + Change and discuss starting a skills-based volunteer program from the ground up. Without providing a distinct template for the design of sustainable program, as each company has different capacity for such a venture, here are what I hope were the major takeaways from the discussion: