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LinkedIn for Good

We believe we have a unique opportunity to leverage what we do as a business — connect talent with opportunity at massive scale — to create unprecedented impact in the social sector. Our vision is to connect every one of our members and employees with opportunities for social impact, and in so doing to create value for both professionals and the social sector.

The LinkedIn For Good (LIFG) mission is to connect our employees and members with opportunities to use their skills to make a positive impact on the world.

LIFG programs support our employees, our members, and the nonprofit community.

LIFG and Employees

We believe our employees are in a unique position to help change the world by using their skills to volunteer. We also support grants programs that enable our employees to have a transformative impact on their communities.

Skills-Based Volunteering Programs:

  • Calling for a Cause leverages the telesales and telemarketing skills of our employees to support a charitable organization, from education to donor outreach.
  • Recruiters for Good is a collaborative effort between LinkedIn and non-profit organizations to help recruit top talent for senior roles at nonprofits.
  • Connect You is a workshop led by LinkedIn employees, training our members on how to maximize LinkedIn tools to address their challenges. Member groups for these workshops include nonprofits, veterans, job seekers, and students.

Grants Programs:

  • Innovation Grants are employee-championed grants awarded to charitable organizations implementing new and unique social impact programs. These grants are designed to address the risk capital void in the social sector by providing early funding to unproven organizations and programs. In addition to receiving a grant of up to $10,000.00, the organization also receives training and product resources.
  • Transformation Grants are awarded to employees in support of their efforts to transform themselves, their communities and the world. An employee can receive up to $3,000.00 to implement their idea for transformation.

LIFG and Members

Through the LinkedIn platform, we inspire and support our members to make a social impact and to communicate their impact with the network. Below are the product features designed to make social impact a core component of our members' professional identities.

  • The Volunteer and Causes Field: The portion of the profile where members express the causes they care about, organizations they support, their volunteer experience, and the ways in which they would like to donate their time and talent.
  • Board Member Connect: A program that enables US nonprofit leaders to leverage the LinkedIn Talent Finder tool to recruit quality professionals to join their boards.
  • US Veterans Program: A program supporting veterans to create online professional identities and connect with new career opportunities. See more at:

LIFG and Nonprofit Solutions

We help nonprofits leverage the LinkedIn platform in their talent identification for employees, volunteers, board members and donors, as well as in their brand development. Nonprofit Solutions is how we provide our products and advising to nonprofits at discounted rates.

The program offers eligible US-based nonprofits:

  • A 50% discount on Talent Solutions and a 25% discount on Sales Solutions.
  • Dedicated Nonprofit Relationship Manager.
  • Community of hundreds of nonprofits leveraging LinkedIn as a core business platform.
  • Training and learning materials specific to nonprofits using LinkedIn.