“One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering — in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem,” write Christine Letts and Danielle Holly in SSIR. “Given the fact that so many nonprofit organizations need technical skills and management talent, and so many businesses are willing to offer those services to nonprofits for free, the skills-based volunteering model would seem to be a match made in heaven. And in theory it is. But in practice, it has proved to be difficult to implement — so much so, that a growing number of nonprofits are turning away from skills-based support. … To better understand the SBV model and how it can be implemented, we embarked on a research project to hear directly from practitioners — the companies and nonprofits that have tried different forms of pro bono and skills-based volunteering — to understand what works and, perhaps even more important, what doesn’t work. This article is the result of our work.”