Corporate Volunteerism is a win for the company, the community, and the employee or retiree. Many companies feel committed to community but don't always have large monetary resources to contribute. However, they do have employees with multiple skills who can contribute time and talent to non-profit organizations. StandOut can help your company design and implement a corporate volunteerism initiative that matches your employees’ interests and skill sets with community needs.

Types of volunteer programs that StandOut can help you to implement:

• Time-defined, specific involvement such as tutoring or mentoring
• Project-specific involvement, such as website or marketing plan development for a non-profit
• Board membership
• Issue advocacy and development
• Retiree Volunteerism

An employee can volunteer for a defined project with a set time limit such as tutoring or mentoring a student. Or, he or she may produce a project for a non-profit such as a human resource guide.

Board membership is another type of volunteering where an employee’s skills and leadership are an asset to an organization and can help the organization be effective and efficient. Sometimes an employee or executive may take on an issue of interest to the individual or the corporation without a specific plan in place. The work may be in the form of project design, advocacy or lobbying, or fund raising, but the outcome will be visibility for the issue and concrete actions.

Not only does the non-profit benefit from the contribution of time, but the employee's skill base expands also. Board membership provides new leadership training and may provide connections for the business. Often, employees will remain at a company because the company is socially responsible and supports community involvement and because the employee can expand his or her knowledge base.

Retiree Volunteerism
Retirees are an excellent source of expert volunteer contributions. They have the time, the knowledge and the interest to participate at a variety of levels. Retirees may work in the area of expertise they had at the company or they may choose an entirely different line of work.

Often, after a year of "golf" following retirement, the individual is looking for a more meaningful way to spend some time. Volunteering helps retirees feel needed and the community benefits from their vast skill base. With the commitment of a small amount of time and little expense from the company, a retiree volunteer project can be established with magnificent results... truly a win for all!