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Organizations are welcome to fork this repo.\n\n### Objective\nSkills-Based Volunteering Programs aim to match skilled employees with partner social sector organizations to help solve their strategic and technical problems through short term engagements. \n\n## Getting Started\n\n\n### Open Projects\n|Project   | Anticipated Start Date  | Anticipated End Date   |  Status |\n|---|:---:|:---:|:---:| \n|  [Example Grassroots Community organization - Strategy Planning](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/issues/2)   |  September | November | 2 volunteers |\n\n  \n \n### How to Sign Up - _this should take less than 1 hour_\n1. [Browse current volunteer asks in Issues](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/issues)\n2. Confirm with your Team/Manager you are available to volunteer and provide the acknowledgement confirmation message\n    - [Here](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/blob/main/Manager%20Acknowledgement/Manager%20Acknowledgement%20Form%20-%20Hubbers%2C%20Skills-based%20Volunteering.md) is a sample of what you can send to your Team/Manager to confirm your involvement and a [Employee Toolkit](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/blob/main/Manager%20Acknowledgement/Employee%20Toolkit%20on%20requesting%20for%20Manager%20Acknowledgement.md) to help you out on this\n    - Manager's please refer to the [Team/Manager Acknowledgement Toolkit]([https://github.com/github/SI-skills-based-volunteering/blob/main/Manager%20Acknowledgement/Manager%20Toolkit%20Reviewing%20Acknowledgement%20Requests.md](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/blob/main/Manager%20Acknowledgement/Manager%20Toolkit%20Reviewing%20Acknowledgement%20Requests.md)) for more information.\n4. Sign up for the intro to tech for social good and topic webinars training\n5. Assign yourself to the [Issue](https://github.com/github/Skills-Based-Volunteering-Public/issues) with the volunteer ask you want.\n\n\\*Note that every employee who wishes to volunteer must complete the general tech for social good webinar and any webinars related to their partner org's topics.\\*\n\n_Please do not reach out to partner orgs directly! 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