LinkedIn is where you polish your resume and look for jobs, but now it also wants to be the place you go for volunteering. Its a separate part of LinkedIns website where nonprofits can post new opportunities, and it also aggregates postings from websites like Catchafire, Taproot Foundation, BoardSource, and VolunteerMatch. Not only does this expand on the LinkedIn Board Connect, a feature that came out in 2012 to help nonprofit leaders find professionals to join their boards, but its a way for LinkedIn to kill two birds with one stone: get more nonprofits and potential volunteers to use the site, and increase traffic. LinkedIn wants to be more than just your resume updater
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