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Goodwill® Celebrates 115 Years of Mission Impact through Social Enterprise
Over the years, social enterprise has evolved from start-up to fully operational organizations striving to create impact at scale. They blend together innovative ideas with…
5 Key Steps to Starting an Employee Volunteer Program
Through employee volunteer and skills giving programs, companies and their employees have the opportunity to strengthen nonprofit capacity and efficiency, and form truly strategic relationships…
Employee Donor Cultivation Toolkit
Workplace giving donors give on average five times more and provide nonprofit organizations with sustainable, unrestricted funds. Use this guide for best practices, rules, and tips to…
Giving Tuesday Corporate Giving Guide: Employee Fundraising and Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is a form of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising. If you have ever participated in an event like Relay for Life where individual fundraising is combined with team…
Building Buy-in From Leadership
A powerful social mission infuses company environments with positive opportunities to engage and retain employees. But how do you develop a culture of engagement through…
Powerful Metrics & Methods for Measuring Effective Social Impact
Your company likely has a number of motivations for its corporate philanthropy, employee giving and employee volunteering programs. And you — and your nonprofit partners…
Exceptional Storytelling Made Easy
With myriad channels to leverage, storytelling is more important than ever when it comes to inspiring employee giving. If your company is looking to more effectively…
Case Study: How Optimizely Increased Its Employee Giving Results Sevenfold
John Leonard, Program Manager at Optimizely, knew his co-workers were very generous, but he didn’t realize just how generous until he saw the results of the…
What Giving Methods and Opportunities Actually Interest Employees?
We know from previous research that employees view their employers as facilitators and multipliers for their own philanthropic efforts. But what exactly does that mean?…
Give Kids The World Village Creates Magic and Memories for Families Facing Life-Threatening Illnesses
Every year, 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. For these children, childhood is overshadowed by doctor visits, hospital stays, and…
Last Chance to Participate in Nationwide Workplace Giving, CSR, Corporate Philanthropy Study
Snapshot 2017, the latest in America’s Charities’ research series on employee giving and engagement trends, closes this Sunday, April 30. If you are interested in…
How Orbis is Bringing the World Together to Fight Blindness
Imagine the world around you in darkness. For millions of people this darkness is a reality. Blindness takes away so much more than vision. It…