Benefits of Employer Supported Volunteerism:

• Enhance your business' reputation and improve your public image
• Improve relationships with your stakeholders
• build goodwill in your community
• multiply the impact of any financial donations your company makes
• establish networks that can lead to new market opportunties for your business.

How can you encourage volunteerism in your business?

• Permit employees to receive phone calls or use office space for a volunteer related activity.
• Allow flextime for volunteer activity.
• Challenge your employees, retirees, vendors, suppliers, clients to volunteer 40 hours per year.
• Lend skilled staff to a charity that lacks specific expertise.
• Help managers to see volunteerism as a team-building acitvity.
• Initiate an employer-supported volunteer porgram.

To find our more about employer-supported volunteerism visit www.volunteer.ca.