Save the Date for the 2027 Points of Light Conference!

Why We Need More Than Volunteering: A Primer for CSR Leaders

Corporate volunteer programs have long been essential to how businesses connect with their communities. But creating sustainable change takes more than volunteering. That’s why Points of Light developed the Civic Circle®, a framework that empowers each of us to lead, lend support and take action for causes we care about.

This session is one that companies can offer to new hires, ERG leaders, employees and other stakeholders to learn how it can help educate and mobilize employees to become more civically engaged.

Key takeaways:

  1. Creating sustainable community change takes more than corporate volunteer programs. Companies can educate and mobilize their employees on a wide variety of civic engagement actions, and Points of Light’s Civic Circle® can get you started.
  2. Change is not about you, as an individual, doing everything. It’s about the collective power of your action, combined with your neighbor’s action, and so on. It is through a combination of civic actions that change becomes not only more impactful, but also that change happens more quickly.
  3. Listening and learning is the foundation of all civic actions – to respond in the way our communities need, we must first understand the root causes and recommended solutions.
  4. Civic engagement is not about everyone doing the same thing or supporting something in the same ways. It’s where your passions, interests, and skills connect with what your community, or the issue you care about, requires.

If you’d like to learn more about evolving your social impact and employee engagement programs to include more forms of civic engagement, please complete the form on this page and mention Civic Circle.

A Call to Action: Strategies for Coping With and Preventing Gun Violence

Gun violence is an epidemic in the United States that continues to claim lives daily, and disproportionately in Black, Indigenous, and other Communities of Color (BIPOC)​. On June 10, Points of Light and Morehouse College led a special Listen. Learn. Act to End Racism session that brought together leaders who shared the realities of gun violence across America and explored the needs of communities impacted by these tragedies–especially BIPOC communities. The panelists examined the roles of systemic racism and implicit bias in sparking this epidemic and shared what we can all do to support our communities and take action to end gun violence.

Navigating the Global Civic Engagement Landscape in a Disrupted World

Civic Engagement Research: A Millennial Perspective Webinar

Points of Light’s President & CEO Natalye Paquin and Influence|SG’s Managing Director Derrick Feldman held in a webinar on Points of Light’s new research titled “Civic Life Today: A Millennial Perspective." This new report shares how a concentration of extraordinary experiences in a brief period of time has influenced the civic involvement of the country’s largest generation in history, millennials, and whether their intentions to do more for society have or are likely to come to fruition.

Webinar: Examining the State of American Civic Engagement

Points of Light and guests discuss the findings from our latest civic engagement research. Speakers include Jay Campbell, partner, Hart Research, who guides us through key insights of the research. Then, Jenny Lawson, chief civic innovation officer, Points of Light, moderates a conversation with Carol Cone, founder & CEO, Carol Cone ON PURPOSE, and Natalye Paquin, president & CEO, Points of Light, on what we see for the future and how to make the research actionable.

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Eyes on the Prize (Blackside/PBS, 1987)

Foot Soldiers Class of 1964 Trailer (Urban Home Entertainment, 2015)

Federal Reserve Bank Atlanta’s Webinar, “Racism and the Economics”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Prize Speech