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Employee Volunteer Programs (EVPs)
An Employee Volunteer Program is a company-supported effort to leverage organizational resources and engage employees in projects that target real community needs.

Successful workplace volunteer programs meet core business goals and address issues that affect a company's or organization’s ability to operate. The Principles of Excellence serve as guidelines for developing and sustaining an effective EVP. The Principles are:

• ACKNOWLEDGE that your company's community service involvement and its employee volunteer efforts contribute to the achievement of its business goals.
  
  
• COMMIT to establish, support, and promote an employee volunteer program that encourages the involvement of every employee and treat it like any other core business function.
  
  
• TARGET community service efforts at serious social problems in the community.
  

Benchmarks of Excellence Series:

• How the Best EVPs Structure Themselves



• Magnitude & Nature of Volunteering at the Best EVPs



• Policies & Procedures of the Best EVPs



• Compare the Practices of Your EVP to Those of Award-Finalist Companies

Workplace Volunteering Brief Series:

• Top Seven Trends Affecting EVPs
  
  
• Using Employee Volunteering to Benefit HR Departments

Opinion Series:

• For Better Employees, Nudge Them Out of the Office

Recent Publications & Resources:

• Employee Volunteer Metrics Benchmarking Tool Pilot Version



• The Promise Employee Skill-Based Volunteering Holds for Employee Skills and Nonprofit Partner Effectiveness



• Family Volunteering – A Guide for the Workplace (Courtesy of Disney)



• Service Tool Kit – How to Develop and Manage Powerful Community Service Events (Courtesy of Timberland)