RW Institute launches The Empathy Project, a structured corporate volunteering program connecting employees with international conversation partners through six-week dialogues, aiming for 1M hours of empathy work by 2026.
“Volunteers of America saved my life.” “Volunteers of America gave me hope.” “Volunteers of America helped me be ‘me’ again.”
“Volunteers of America gave me my mom back.”
Sounds absurd, right? No chef lists “poached eggs” on the dessert menu. Here’s an equally absurd statement:
Corporate volunteering is great for employee engagement.
Employee volunteer managers should not state this. I’ve helped over a dozen companies measure the relationship between participation in volunteer activities and employee engagement, or willingness to do more than the job minimally requires. Evidently, most volunteering does not drive employee engagement.
A longstanding supporter of U.S. military personnel, MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) pledged a $250,000 donation to the Nevada Military Support Alliance (NMSA) to help build the state’s first Fisher House for military families. MGM Resorts joined military and community leaders in celebrating the completion of the Fisher House.
Research shows that employees who are passionate about sustainability at home would like to see those same practices valued at work. These folks are known as sustainability champions and in their case; leadership is a role, not a position. Sustainability champions lead by example, benefitting both themselves and the organization as a whole.
For more than a decade, there has been a national debate about how to close the digital divide: the gap between those who are connected to high-speed Internet at home and those who are not. The issue not only has a profound impact on individual families, but also on our region's business owners, economy builders, and employers.
“If we know cocoa is being produced on plantations in West Africa using slave labor and then being imported into the US, we still have to allow it in because the US cannot produce enough cocoa to meet the US demand.”
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The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
Driving awareness of DP World’s Employee Value Proposition across the Americas, showcasing the company’s purpose-driven mission, talent strategy, and...
Diverse teams build better products — period. At GoDaddy, we make apps and services that our worldwide community of entrepreneurs can relate to. Our...
