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

Napoca, Romania: Initially, Habitat assigned volunteers to build simple housing in hard-up places.  But lately, it has teamed up with multinationals seeking Corporate Social Responsibility credentials, who send their employees and also pay for the privilege.  Read article

London, UK: UK Chancellor Gordon Brown will call on employers and employees to work in their communities to provide a million new volunteers by 2012.  Read article

California, USA: What's the best way to learn if a company truly embraces its ballyhooed social mission day-to-day? Employee volunteerism, says Peter Asmus. He writes that levels of volunteer activity show how much social concerns really figure into company culture.  Read article

Atlanta, USA: Employees of the international package carrier, UPS, will volunteer some 100,000 hours in 50 countries to undertake various community activities.   Read article

Most employees say they would prefer to work for a company that allows its staff time off to volunteer, new research in the UK has found.   Read article

Corporate employee volunteering might be booming — more corporations and charities are trying to work together. Trouble is, the two sides don't seem to understand each other and, in some cases, they just don't get on. A special report has found frustrations and recriminations spilling over from both sectors.  Read article

Seoul, Rep. of Korea: Employees of Korea Life Insurance dedicate one percent of their working hours to volunteering to show that they "love their neighbours."  Read article

Cardiff, Wales, UK: A huge renaissance in the popularity of the Scouts and Guides is causing a shortage of leaders in Wales, with too few leaders for the numbers of youngsters wanting to join up. Busy lifestyle and apathy are being blamed by officials.  Read article

Washington, DC, USA: Despite a need for more resources, the vast majority of non-profit organizations are not capitalizing on the valuable professional skills of their volunteers, a new study has found.   Read article