Connecting the Cause is a volunteer engagement consultancy dedicated to community-centered volunteerism. We are created and designed to tackle and dismantle the current narrative and traditional norms around volunteerism. We support volunteers and the organizations that lead them effectively identify and uproot harmful service practices so that dignity and respect lead instead of pity and power.

We help organizations keep community at the center of service through specialty workshops, curated resources, hands-on consulting and intentional community.

We teach individuals and organizations how to identify, challenge and uproot power, privledge, white supremacy and paternalism in volunteerism while reimagining a new future for service, for co-dreaming. We incessantly advocate for voices of color to be heard, recognized and valued in the service and volunteerism sector. This work is about taking the focus off of outside volunteers as heroes and putting community work back in the hands of the community for ultimate direction and implementation.

Breauna, The Founder and Chief Cause Consultant of Connecting the Cause uses her decade plus stint in the nonprofit sector and in volunteer management to teach nonprofits, organizations, civic groups and CSR employee volunteers how to ensure the community stays at the center of all decision-making, strategy, planning and support. Breauna teaches individuals how to volunteer responsibly and effectively in both justice and love, and how to become real partners in change by directing their energy and actions towards solidarity and dignity.

Connecting the Cause can help if you are:

Together, we can realize the full impact of your volunteer programs.

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