Business Case
Does Employee Volunteerism Work?
The benefits of an Employee Volunteer Program are many, and building a strategic program that is integrated with core business objectives and core competencies creates a meaningful and sustainable program. Join this growing volunteer movement and your employees, shareholders, community, and company all benefit.
Benefits to the Employee
- Improves performance
- Increases job satisfaction, attitude and morale
- Encourages teamwork
- Promotes leadership and skill development
- Improves communication between employees and their supervisors, and across departments
Benefits to the Corporation
- Builds brand awareness and affinity
- Strengthens trust and loyalty among consumers
- Enhances corporate image and reputation
- Improves employee retention
- Increases employee productivity and loyalty
- Provides an effective vehicle to reach strategic goals
Benefits to the Community
- Provides skilled and talented volunteer pool, as employees devote personal and professional skills to community needs
- Offers direct cost savings for community service organizations in saved recruiting and labor costs
- Creates quantifiable social impact
- Helps bring community needs into focus
Recent Studies have Shown
- More than 8 in 10 companies (84%) believe that volunteerism can help nonprofits accomplish long-term social goals, and are increasingly offering skills-based volunteer opportunities to employees. In fact, corporate managers report that the top priorities when determining workplace volunteer activities include the potential to alleviate a social issue (36%), help the nonprofit function more effectively (31%) and serve more clients (31%).
2010 Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Survey - Despite the tough economy in 2009, support for employee volunteering remained strong with 83 percent of executives of large companies re-affirming their support. Treating Employees Well (81%) continues to be one of the top 3 areas of corporate citizenship most important to senior executives.
The State of Corporate Citizenship in the United States 2009: Weathering The Storm (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship), 2009 - New research shows that companies that help employees volunteer with nonprofit organizations could have a leg up with recruiting Generation Y (18-26 year-old) talent. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents (62%) in the 2007 Volunteer IMPACT survey by Deloitte & Touche USA said they would prefer to work for companies that give them opportunities to contribute their talents to nonprofit organizations.
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche USA), 2007 - 64% of executives surveyed say that corporate citizenship produces a tangible contribution to the company bottom line. Among executives at large companies, 84% see direct bottom-line benefits.
Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and Business Civic Leadership Center, 2005 - An Employee Volunteer Program (EVP) is effective in developing employees, improving public perception of the company, and enhancing business operations. Administrators [of the study] further believe an EVP is a sensible, efficient method of achieving general HR objectives for recruiting, retaining, and developing employees
Points of Light Institute and the HandsOn Network Corporate Service Council, 2010 - The estimated dollar value of volunteer time is $21.36 per hour
Independent Sector, 2010 - In 1992, only 31 percent of surveyed companies reported using their employee volunteer programs to support core business functions. By 1999, 81% of companies reported using EVPs.
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