Group volunteering is a central feature of most employer-supported volunteering programs, especially pre-pandemic. Groups of 5, 10, 50, sometimes 100 or more employees are deployed in-person, usually for a day or part of a day, to address a need defined by a community organization. Popular activities include outdoor planting, gardening, painting, clean-up; sorting and organizing […]
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OverviewAs companies move into the new year, it is a time to reflect on the past, evaluate programming and priorities, and move forward with new approaches to employee engagement that create benefit for pandemic-affected communities, internal stakeholders, and the broader sector. Vast shifts brought on by COVID-19 in the private and non-profit sector, require companies […]
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How can companies be better partners to non-profits? This is one of the themes regularly discussed by the companies of Volunteer Canada’s Corporate Community Engagement Council (CCEC). Building on Spring discussions, including the June Gathering with non-profits, CCEC reps participated in a World Café-style workshop to dig deeper on three areas of identified tension in […]
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