Giving Officer Quick Tips - Page 4
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Employee Engagement / Volunteerism- When developing a volunteer program, consider how it will be coordinated, based on the overall decision-making process of your giving department. Management needs may differ depending on whether you operate through a decentralized decision-making structure vs. a centralized process (see “Decision-Making” section).
- Company-wide “days of volunteerism” are media friendly and can provide a focused and strategic platform to engage employees and senior management, in addition to their deep (although short-term) community impact. However, manufacturing companies and decentralized giving departments may find them a challenge to execute.
- Providing employees with paid time off to volunteer at organizations of the employee’s choosing can be an effective way of serving individual employee’s charitable interests and may fit better with their work schedule.
- Set up a website (or outsource to a web technology company) to inform employees about available volunteer opportunities and to track individual volunteer time (for measurement and benchmarking purposes). This site can be a valuable source of information and can be accessed for information on employee interests when selecting future focus areas and signature initiatives.
Benchmarking
Measure up.CECP’s exclusive benchmarking tool, the Corporate Giving Standard, gives companies access to over $60 billion in comparative giving data and provides the foundation for our annual study of philanthropy trends.
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