WorkPride Keynote: Connecting with the Community Through the Power of Volunteering

NCVO defines volunteering as any activity that involves spending time, usually unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or someone (individuals or groups) other than, or in addition to, close relatives. Central to this definition is the fact that volunteering must be a choice freely made by each individual.

This can include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation and social action.

In this panel discussion, we will hear from volunteers and community organisations that have relied on volunteers for their very survival.

The discussion will highlight the benefits to all involved for the greater good of the LGBTQ+ community in the UK.

Speakers:

Ebone Bell

Editor and Keynote Speaker
Tagg Magazine

Eboné Bell is a business owner, speaker, and trailblazer who shines bright in the world of entrepreneurship, DEI, activism, and LGBTQ media. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tagg Magazine. After seeing a lack of LGBTQ women represented in local publications, she decided to start a magazine and website to tell stories, provide resources, and create events. This year, Tagg Magazine celebrates ten years of telling thousands of stories, creating safe-spaces for queer women, and providing important resources for the LGBTQ community. Over the past four years, Tagg Magazine has been named “Top 25 LGBTQ-Owned Companies” by the Washington Business Journal. Eboné was recently featured in Forbes Magazine as an "Inspiring Black Entrepreneur Changing Our World." And that's exactly her mission: To create change and leave a stamp on this world. One of those stamps includes starting a student group for LGBTQ people of color while attending University of Maryland College Park. Eighteen years later the group is still going strong. She has produced such events as the annual Capital Queer Prom giving the older LGBTQ community a second-chance prom, Capital Pride Women’s Events, Pride in the Sky, and Put on the Gloves Fashion Show benefitting The Trevor Project, just to name a few. These events have raised over $50,000 for LGBTQ non-profit organizations. She continues her community work by serving on the board of the Equality Chamber Foundation, an organization providing financial awareness and economic opportunity to LGBTQ-owned businesses. In 2018, Eboné founded the Tagg Scholarship Fund—a scholarship created specifically for young, queer, women of color who can’t afford to attend school. In addition to running a queer women’s publication, she shares her knowledge and passion as a keynote speaker at conferences, schools, and events across the country.

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Chris Freed

Manager, Responsible Business
Checkout.com

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Maaian Lichtensztajn Kaplan

Head of Psicosocial service
Fundación Eddy

Eddy Foundation is the first foster home in Spain for young people from the LGTBI community, victims of family violence, bullying and LGTBIphobia. A home to learn that you are not alone.

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	Date & Time	Jun 21, 2022 12:00 EDT
	Location	Online