The Gift of Coaching

Are you one of the thousands of coaches who volunteer coaching hours to worthy causes? Pro-bono coaching is gaining momentum all over the world. Coaches have always been generous with their time, but now more coaches are feeling called to contribute a few extra hours for the greater good of others.

We honor this splendid and gracious gesture here at the Coaching Commons. The Harnisch Foundation team has compiled a list of leading organizations that are offering opportunities to get involved. Each has a special mission and specific set of goals. Some organizations are relatively new, and others well-established.

We invite you to view our posts below for more details about how you can raise your hand in a way that thrills your coaching heart.

The global response to the opportunity to change lives through volunteer coaching is overwhelming, and if we’ve missed a pro-bono program somewhere in the world, we hope you’ll let us know right away so we can include it in our list.

We applaud the leadership, kindness and generosity of the coaching community.

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Giving the Gift of Coaching: Coaching The Global Village

World-class coaches and consultants at Coaching the Global Village are partnering with non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) and non-profit social agencies to incorporate coaching skills into their work to reach target outcomes.
These efforts involve individuals, leaders of non-governmental groups as well as localized leaders of the community bringing the ‘coach-approach’ to developing countries.
Coaching the Global Village started [...]

14Jun2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: The Laura Whitworth Prison Project

The Laura Whitworth Prison Project is about Self-Leadership and Coaching. The project provides a personal development program, with a focus on self-leadership beliefs, tools, and skills. Our purpose is to offer an alternative way to spend time in prison…a way that develops the emotional intelligences of the participants and offers them an opportunity to re-create [...]

10Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: The Coach Initiative

The mission of The Coach Initiative is to be the central gathering point where professional coaches can volunteer their experience and expertise in support of global projects that focus on the betterment of the human condition and uplifting the human spirit.
Coach Initiative coaching helps nonprofit organizations and their leaders to improve performance through professional coaching.
Nonprofit [...]

7Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: The Coach Approach

The purpose and function of The Coach Approach, Inc. is to offer support services by coaches to individuals in the helping profession including social workers, ministers, nurses, teachers, executive directors, program coordinators as well as front line staff can benefit from coaching services. The purpose is to aid these individuals either in their personal and/or [...]

3Jun2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: Coaching Kids

Coaching Kids, Inc. was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2002 in order to bring life coaching and communication skills to kids and parents everywhere.
Coaching Kids programs and volunteer coaching services are available to families, educational institutions, and community organizations that work with kids and parents.
Specialized programs include coaching training in juvenile prisons, Daniel’s [...]

30May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: One To One Coaching Women

One to One Women Coaching Women is dedicated to assisting women to achieve sustained success by creating positive changes in their lives. One to One offers short-term life coaching at no cost to eligible women in the United States and Canada.
Professionally trained coaches volunteer their time and skills in coaching to clients for 26 weekly sessions [...]

24May2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: A Hand UP Coaching

A Hand UP Coaching is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing individuals with career success coaching and life skills training programs to create economic self-sufficiency and pursue career goals.
The organization brings the power of career coaching to those who need it the most, yet can least afford it.  Coaching clients are matched with professional [...]

14May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: Coaches United for Success in America

Are you a professional who’s been laid off and facing financial hardship? Here’s how you can apply for a free coaching program.
Together with 100 business, life, and executive coaches, Pamela Beaudet has created Coaches United for Success in America.
 Their group is donating coaching sessions for 3 months, free of charge to those people who have [...]

1May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: Springboard Forward

Springboard Forward’s Engaged Employment™ Program is a new, results-oriented model delivered in partnership with our business clients.
The Engaged Employment™ Program doesn’t teach people how to get a job or how to do their jobs. Our program inspires people to develop a long-term vision for career mobility that starts with engaging in the job they have [...]

23Apr2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Giving the Gift of Coaching: The Brande Foundation

The Brande Foundation
The purpose of the Brande Foundation is to promote life on the planet in five basic areas including:
1) World sufficiency (adequate food, water, and shelter for all people)
2) Environmental integrity (a healthy and sustainable ecosystem)
3) Human rights
4) World peace
5) Personal transformation (human effectiveness and education)
Currently, the primary project of The Brande Foundation is [...]

15Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Recruiting Volunteers for the 12th Annual International Coaching Week February 7-13, 2010

Coaches, are you a project person, an idea person, an event planner and/or someone who likes to create something from scratch?  Yes?
WE NEED YOU!  WE WANT YOU!
The Idea: Develop a project to celebrate the 12th Annual International Coaching Week
The Goal: 12 people create 12 projects in 12 unique ways to celebrate The 12th Annual International Coaching Week February [...]

19Mar2009 | Katherine Gotshall English | 0 comments | Continued
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How Will YOU Share The Power of Coaching?

11th Annual International Coaching Week
February 1-7, 2009

Scroll down to view the 2009 ICW Contest Winners!
Back when I was a television and radio talk show host, newspaper columnist, and journalist-about-town, I depended on Chase’s Calendar of Events to give me ideas. For example, according to Chase’s, today is “Better Conversations Day.” If I were still working [...]

28Jan2009 | Ruth Ann Harnisch | 7 comments | Continued
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A Call to Coaches: Serve the Highest Good with a Gift of Coaching

Today, on this seventh anniversary of September 11th, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain will look beyond their differences and come together to honor the memory of those who lost their lives. They, along with 700 other leaders, will meet for a bipartisan event to share their vision for reigniting the spirit of volunteerism in [...]

14Sep2008 | Sylva Leduc | 0 comments | Continued
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Coaching: The Original Green Profession?

In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2008, I want to propose a provocative proposition: coaching is the original green profession.
Think about it. Over the past decade or two, more (most?) coaches have worked with clients who are geographically disbursed. For the most part, we don’t have to travel to clients’ offices or homes, [...]

19Apr2008 | Sylva Leduc | 5 comments | Continued
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The Coaching Commons has launched. Get the scoop here.

The Coaching Commons is launched!!!
It’s an open source way of creating something that wants to be created, together. It follows the ’stone soup’ philosophy of life and increasingly, business via social networks like this one - that is that everyone has something to contribute to the soup pot, and the meal will be more [...]

14Jan2008 | Andrea Lee | 1 comment | Continued