Corporate volunteering
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08 April 2008
Car company pushes employee volunteering
Seoul, South Korea: Better labor management and corporate transparency, cooperation with other companies, developing environmentally friendly vehicles and helping the poor and disabled are among the list of initiatives Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group representatives announced yesterday. Read article
06 December 2007
International company recognizes employee volunteers on IVD
USA: Alcoa, a leading producer of primary aluminum, recognized its 47,000 employee volunteers to mark IVD. "We chose International Volunteer Day to announce these achievements as further recognition of the significant positive change these Alcoa volunteers make on a regular basis in their communities around the globe," says Alain Belda, Alcoa's Chairman and Chief Executive Office. Read article
20 August 2007
Volunteering on the rise in the Philippines by Constantino Tejero
Manila, Philippines: Companies are venturing more into volunteerism to share with the community part of the benefits they’ve received. Tasks for the volunteers range from cultural and global education for local schools, to community cleanups, house-building, fund raising for local charity—or anything that would have “a positive and practical contribution to community initiatives.” Read article
28 June 2007
Companies launch toolkit to improve employee volunteering
London, UK: A group of companies recently launched, ENGAGE Toolkit, a comprehensive guide to internationalise emlpoyee engagement for companies and NGOs. Read article
11 December 2006
Standards for employee volunteer programmes developed
Washington, D.C., USA: Today more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies have employee volunteer programs to leverage the power of service and volunteering in the corporate sector. The Corporate Community Involvement Summit, a coalition of nonprofit organizations, has developed a set of standards that will help to track trends, benchmark programs and encourage better practices in employee volunteer programs. Read article
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The latest office perk: Getting paid to volunteer
Corporate volunteerism often used to mean cleaning up public parks or building homes for the needy. Today, a growing number of companies are lending out skilled employees to nonprofits and struggling small businesses around the world. Visit site
UniversalGiving
UniversalGiving is a non-profit, social entrepreneurship that connects individuals with a wide range of organizations and their volunteer opportunities from around the world. It aims to make giving and volunteering a natural part of everyday life. Visit site
Emerging Areas of Volunteering
The second volume in ARNOVA’s Occasional Paper Series — Emerging Areas of Volunteering — focuses on episodic volunteering, virtual volunteering, cross-national volunteering, and employee volunteer programmes. This volume also revisits two longstanding forms of volunteer involvement - volunteering to government and volunteering to nonprofit organization boards of directors. Visit site
03 May 2008, 17:16
Give Time Together blog
Travel corporation Sabre Holdings is in its third year of hosting a global volunteer week. It offers a public blog for its 9,000 employees around the world to share their volunteer experiences.
"We find the stories very moving and real with photos to emphasize the reality of their impact," says Carrie Mamantov, Social Responsibility Program Architect at Sabre. "We even do a contest of sorts for employees to vote on their favorite entry and then give that office some donation money to give back to the charity they helped."
View the blog here - givetimetogether.sabre.com Read entry
07 December 2005, 18:28
Volunteers celebration week in Turkey
On 5 December 2005, the entire world is celebrating International Volunteer Day. We at Citigroup Turkey, planned to celebrate our volunteers and those who wish to join volunteering. For this aim, we organized Citigroup Turkey Volunteers Celebration Week. Read entry
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