Corporate Tool Box

COVID-19 – find additional resources here

• 8 Things Non-Profits Want You to Know About Volunteering During COVID-19 (Volunteer Canada, 2020)
• 5 Ways to Keep Employee Volunteers Engaged during COVID-19 (Volunteer Canada, 2020)

Best Practices - managing corporate volunteers

• Virtual Volunteering For Employee Volunteers (Volunteer Canada, 2020, Canada)
• Your Guide to a Successful Month of Service (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Preparing Employees for Non-Profit Board Service (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Four things to consider before sending employee volunteers abroad (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Making the corporate volunteering experience meaningful for your group (Volunteer Canada, 2018, Canada)
• Unleashing changemakers: RBC, SAP and Shell take different approaches to engaging volunteers at work (Canadian HR Reporter, 2018, Canada)
• 9 things charities want companies to know about asking to volunteer (Volunteer Canada, 2017, Canada)

Best Practices - building your program 

• The 10 Best Employee Community Engagement Practices For 2022 (Volunteer Canada, 2021, Canada)
• CSR and Human Resources Collaboration for Employee Engagement (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• How to launch an employee-community engagement software platform (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Time to reconsider what fits in your corporate volunteering program (CSR wire, 2017, United States)
• Leading with Intention: Employer Supported Volunteering in Canada (Volunteer Canada, 2016, Canada)
• Seven Practices of Effective Employee Volunteer Programs (Point of Light, 2013, Canada)

Business Cases 

• The Business Case for Giving Back (Volunteer Canada, Great Place to Work®, 2019, Canada)
• The Business Case for Purpose (2017) (Kin&Co, 2017, Canada)

Standards 

• Corporate Group Kit Building (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Canadian Code for Employer-Supported Volunteering (Volunteer Canada, 2019, Canada)
• Corporate Group Volunteering Checklists (Volunteer Canada, 2018, Canada)
• Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement (CCVI and Volunteer, 2017, Canada)
• Building the Bridge to Employer-Supported Volunteers (Volunteer Canada, Manulife Financial and Get Volunteering, 2010, Canada)
• Skills-Plus (Volunteer Canada and Manulife Financial, Canada)