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Assessing corporate climate for employee volunteer programs
All companies and employee volunteer programs are different. Successful programs are tailored to best suit the company's culture and mission. Outstanding programs are formed on the understanding that the company's community service involvement contributes to the achievement of its business goals. This effective practice is excerpted from materials developed by Campaign Consultation, Inc.
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Implementing an employee volunteer program in ten steps
Corporate social responsibility in the form of employee volunteer programs creates a win-win situation for businesses, employees and the communities in which they serve. These ten tips excerpted from the USA Freedom Corps website are practical steps for getting a program off the ground and ensuring its success.
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Supporting volunteerism in the workplace
In 2004, volunteer program award winners of the Points of Light Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Programs awards from the previous year and the 2003 winner of the George Bush Corporate Leadership Award came together for a Business Leadership Forum on Workplace Volunteering, hosted by the Points of Light Foundation. This effective practice shares the panelists' comments concerning their companies' innovative and successful approaches to building and growing winning workplace volunteer programs.
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Providing social services with corporate volunteers
Small businesses have long been known for generosity within their local communities. But corporate philanthropy is becoming more and more prevalent in our culture, and big corporations are making their own impact on service. Increasingly, companies are seeing opportunities—and in some instances, pressures—from a variety of sources to offer more diverse and sophisticated volunteer programs. One large company recruits senior level management to act as interns in neighborhoods where social issues are vivid and inescapable. Read more.
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Enlisting businesses to adopt home meal routes
Faced with a growing homebound senior population, the Volunteer Center of Orange County needed more volunteers to deliver meals to seniors' homes. Asking local businesses to "adopt a route" proved to be a successful way of securing volunteers to deliver to homes on a consistent basis and involving local businesses in supporting the agency. Debbie Dalton, director of senior programs for the Volunteer Center of Orange County submitted this effective practice. Read more.
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Teaching students about professionalism
Service-learning takes students out of the classroom and into the community and workplace. This effective practice offers practical suggestions for program directors and educators who would like to teach their students about professionalism before sending them to sites where they will serve. Ideas were collected from the K-12 S-L (service-learning) e-mail discussion list, hosted by the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, September 2002. Read more.
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