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HandsOn Network enables leading companies to meet our Nation’s most pressing needs - while strengthening their own organizations by engaging employees in service. As the country's premier volunteer organization, HandsOn Network is the go-to destination for companies of all sizes looking to improve their community service initiatives.

How Your Company Can Get HandsOn

  • Customized Employee Volunteer Programs: develop strategically relevant and meaningful employee volunteer programs that address employees' interests, target real community needs and meet company priorities
  • Sponsorship Opportunities: support our high-impact national days of service, recognition programs, and special events aimed at maximizing the impact of your employee volunteer programs
  • Corporate Service Council: premier national platform for advancing corporate volunteerism, with members comprised of Corporate America’s elite.

Trends of Excellence Series

The Points of Light Corporate Institute has released the newest Trends of Excellence, a series of reports analyzing employee volunteer programs (EVP) to identify the practices associated with excellence.

Innovations in Employee Volunteering is available as a free download today. This latest volume focuses on key innovative practices displayed by excellent EVPs, such as making service a celebration, offering microvolunteering and positioning volunteering as an HR tool. The research findings indicate innovative practices that EVPs seeking greater participation, effectiveness, and societal and business impact should consider. Findings suggest EVPs should:
  • Customize EVP policies that encourage targeted volunteering and draw on company skills and competencies to achieve higher impact
  • Maximize the quality of volunteer contributions through volunteer preparation, training and other support
  • Fold volunteering into the workplace experience to strengthen the HR benefits that accrue from volunteering and improve volunteer recruitment
  • Select nontraditional causes that resonate with the workplace culture and corporate character
  • Extend EVP messaging to wider audiences, including those that may not be interested in employee volunteering by communicating volunteer opportunities through other business functions and linking to business functions, such as performance reviews and onboarding

The Trends of Excellence is a series of reports based on Points of Light Corporate Engagement Awards of Excellence finalist companies. The reports analyze award winning employee volunteer programs to identify the practices associated with excellence and focus on a number of practices of excellent EVPs including company support, strategies, policies, activities, outcomes and innovations.

Download a free copy of the reports below:

Engaging people to participate in meaningful service is a positive force to drive positive change in our communities. Companies have a responsibility to address these critical issues. The Corporate Service Council provides an opportunity to bring the influence and business acumen of corporations to the public sector. Working together we’re better equipped to answer the call to action around issues of importance to the neighborhoods in which we do business.

Cliff Burrows
president of Starbucks Coffee U.S. and Americas

2010 Employee Volunteer Program Reporting Standards

As the prevalence of Employee Volunteer Programs continues to grow and corporate America reports their activities and impact, it is important to apply standard definitions to this work. Standards allow the corporate volunteer community to track trends, benchmark our programs and encourage better practices. HandsOn Network's Corporate Service Council is proud to present the newly revised 2010 Employee Volunteer Program (EVP) Reporting Standards.

 

New ROI Measurement Offerings!

Now more than ever our member CSR managers are pressured to:

  • Prove value
  • Invest more strategically
  • Continuously improve impact

We can help!  Learn more about our exciting new tools and services for measuring the social and business value of your volunteerism, provided in partnership with True Impact LLC.