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• Community Volunteering


  An initiative in which the corporation supports and encourages employees, retail partners, and/or franchise members to volunteer their time to support local community organizations and causes
• Types of projects


  • Community projects such as building homes, collecting food for food banks, organizing teams for walk-a-thons, cleaning parks, reading to kids, mentoring youth at risk, volunteering in the classroom, visiting children in hospitals, spending time with seniors in a nursing home, teaching computer skills, befriending homeless people and handing out meals
  • Health and safety related projects where employees volunteer their time to activities such as screening kids for dental problems, leading youth physical activity programs, conducting a car seat safety check, handing out educational brochures on HIV/AIDS, driving seniors to get an annual flu shot, and teaching children on how to cross roads
  • Environmental volunteering such as litter pickup, tree planting in areas destroyed by fires, seed propagation for high way beautification, weed control, clearing storm drains of debris
• Supporting other Corporate Initiatives


  • Supporting employees to volunteer for causes that are a strategic focus for the organization can leverage the contributions already being made through other initiatives such as cause promotions and philanthropy
  • Mixing community volunteering into the efforts makes the concept more real
• Enhancing Corporate Image


  Many companies are discovering that strong reputations for corporate social responsibility can be enhanced, even won through the generous actions of employees whose volunteer efforts bring them face-to-face with cause partners, citizens and neighbors in need
• Developing a CV plan

  • Develop guidelines for employee involvement
  • Determine types and levels of employee support
  • Develop and internal communication plan
  • Develop a recognition plan
  • Develop an external communications plan
  • Develop a plan for tracking and assessment
• Corporate support to CV

  • Providing paid time off from work
  • Matching services to help employees find opportunities of interest
  • Recognition of services
  • Organizing teams to support specific causes the corporation has targeted
• Contributing to business goals

  uCommunity volunteering can help organizations discover new business opportunities in undiscovered markets.Community
• Provide opportunities to showcase products and services

  This particular initiative lets employees penetrate a different market.Direct one to one communication gives employees a chance to showcase their products properly to the communities where they are providing their volunteer services