6 Employee Volunteering Organizations for Building Your Movement
The business case for integrated, meaningful volunteering as part of a company’s broader social responsibility mission is clear. Setting a strategy, securing leadership buy-in, and allocating resources are crucial to creating your corporate responsibility movement and can be challenging to achieve when you're just getting started.
Including an outside perspective can help with strategy generation and offer fresh ideas and energy to launch your new initiative. To support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) teams on their journey, we put together this list of our favorite employee volunteering organizations to help you get started:
1. Realized Worth
Realized Worth helps companies create or evolve their employee volunteer strategy through a comprehensive design, transition, and implementation process that results in a scalable, robust employee program. Their mission is to bring meaning to action through the Transformative Volunteering approach, which teaches employees how to practice behaviors that create engaging, effective, and impactful volunteer projects for their peers. They also publish blog posts and videos on issues on the cutting edge of employee volunteering, like this one on the "helper's high".
2. Points of Light
Points of Light has the broad mission of crafting the tools and creating the conditions for volunteerism to thrive. Over 30 years of working across sectors to inspire and mobilize community service, they’ve developed a robust network, expertise, and research that supports companies and nonprofits alike with volunteering. They offer free reports, research, and toolkits to help you make a compelling case for volunteering and build a meaningful program, and also provide strategic consulting and execution if you need more customized support and thought-partnership.
3. The Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP)
ACCP is the membership association for purpose-driven companies and resource for corporate citizenship professionals. They provide over 200 member companies with insights, tools, and connections that help them identify and understand trends in CSR and expand their impact. ACCP advances the field of corporate citizenship so impact-focused professionals can do the most good.
4. Common Impact
Common Impact partners with companies and nonprofits to design employee engagement programs that return value to their bottom line and society, with the mission of catalyzing more connected and equitable communities. They specialize in creating skills-based volunteering programs that help companies develop their employees’ talents, recruit future leaders, and accelerate solutions to social challenges.
5. Raised By Us
Raised By Us partners with companies to design and implement social good programs that engage, inspire, and empower employees. Their programs augment unique company cultures, celebrate employees' diverse experiences and passions, and give back to the communities where employees live and work. Their services help employees give back to their communities, focusing on philanthropy, and include strategic consultation, annual planning, impact campaigns, and toolkits.
6. WeHero.co
WeHero designs and executes social impact programs through strategic partnerships, Environmental, Social, and Governance program design and execution, and engaging volunteer programs. They’ll work closely with your team to develop new solutions to create better cultures, better brands, and a greater social return, with the mission of empowering 10,000 companies with solutions to maximize their social impact.
Final Thoughts on Employee Volunteering Organizations
Looking to team up with a nonprofit that’s already well-versed in corporate partnership? UPchieve’s Corporate Partnership framework includes dedicated outreach support, storytelling, impact measurement, and thought partnership to help our partners achieve their goals. Learn more about our unique volunteer opportunity and how we work with companies here!