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Among the major trends to be found in the field of volunteer management is the engagement of employee volunteers. Whether this is organizing group projects for local corporate volunteers to take on at your organization or, for for-profit volunteer management professionals, managing regular community engagement of employees, the bottom line is the same: today’s for-profit enterprises – large and small, local and multinational – have discovered the value of volunteering, both for their employees personally and for the overall organization as evidence of community investment.

• Also see Finding Volunteers; Skilled Volunteers
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Energize, Inc.: Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Volunteering

Also Worth Checking Out:

• Attracting Workplace Volunteers – Merrill Associates
• Best Practices in Employee Volunteerism – Chris Hahn @ ServiceLeader
• Building Relationships to Engage Corporate Volunteers – Merrill Associates
• Business in the Community (UK)
• Business Support for Employee Volunteers in Canada (PDF) - M. Easwaramoorthy, Cathy Barr, Mary Runte and Debra Basil
• Caring Companies: Engagement in Employer-Supported Volunteering (PDF) – Institute for Volunteering Research
• Corporate & Employee Volunteering – OzVPM
• Corporate Baby Boomers and Volunteerism (PDF) – Aaron Hurst, Lindsay Firestone, and Matthew O’Grady, Taproot Foundation
• Corporate Employee Volunteer Programs: Considering the Interests of Multiple Stakeholders (PDF) – William A. Brown and Robert F. Ashcraft @ The International Journal of Volunteer Administration
• Corporate Volunteering – World Volunteer Web
• Corporate Volunteering: From Little Things Big Things Grow – Volunteering Australia
• Corporate Volunteering Resources and Research – Volunteering Australia
• Corporate Volunteering Survey (PDF) - Volunteering Australia
• Corporate Volunteers in Arts Organizations: Giving Beyond Money; Volunteering Beyond Ushering – Bridget Lee @ ServiceLeader
• Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Research – Deloitte (A research series on corporate and employee engagement)
• Employee Volunteer Programs – The Points of Light Institute (Programs, resources, training, Corporate Volunteer Council, and National Council on Workplace Volunteerism)
• Employee Volunteering: The Guide (PDF) - National Centre for Volunteering @ Volunteering England
• Employer-Supported Volunteering – Volunteering England
• Employer-Supported Volunteerism – Volunteer Canada
• Insurance & Risk Management for Corporate Volunteers – Volunteering Australia
• Investing in Volunteers for Employers (UK)
• A Look Inside Corporate Employee Volunteer Programs (PDF) – Dr. Ellen J. Benjamin @ The International Journal of Volunteer Administration
• Making a Business Case for Employer-Supported Volunteerism (PDF) - Volunteer Canada
• Making the Most of Corporate Volunteering - Volunteering Australia

Didn’t find what you were looking for? Let us know and consider checking out the following sites:
Energize, Inc.
The Resource Center (CNCS)
Volunteer Canada
Volunteering Australia
Volunteering England
World Volunteer Web