Corporate Tool Box

COVID-19 Resources – find additional resources here

• Partnering for Impact: From Crisis to Opportunity (Imagine Canada, 2021, Canada)
• 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)
• Innovation & Adaptability: Enabling and inspiring giving through a global pandemic (Volunteer Canada, 2020, Canada)

Managing Corporate Volunteers

• Discovering new ways to virtually engage stakeholders in the community (Volunteer Canada, 2021, Canada)
• 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)

Building your program 

• The 10 Best Employee Community Engagement Practices For 2022 (Volunteer Canada, 2021, Canada)
• Video: Best Employee Community Engagement Practices for 2022 (Volunteer Canada, 2021, Canada) 
• Corporate Volunteering, Giving and Grants Technology Review (Realized Worth, 2021, United States)
• Putting Purpose into Practice (University of Oxford, 2020, United Kingdom)
• 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)
• Choosing the right set up for corporate volunteering (Beyond Philanthropy, University of Mannheim, 2019, Germany)
• Introduction: Components of a successful learning and development strategy (McKinsey & Company, 2018, 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)
• Strategic Community Investment: A Good Practice Handbook for Companies Doing Business in Emerging Markets (International Finance Corporation, 2010, United States) 
• Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership (Taproot Foundation)

Developing a Purpose Driven Culture

• The search for purpose at work (McKinsey&Company, 2021, United States)
• Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives (McKinsey&Company, 2021, United States)
• It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Distinguish Philanthropy and Business (Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, 2021, United States)
• Help your employees find purpose—or watch them leave (McKinsey&Company, 2021, United States)
• Becoming an Agent of Change (Embedding Project, 2020, Canada)
• Surfing Uncertainty: The role of purpose & culture in organisational resilience (Kin&Co, 2020, United Kingdom)
• The Responsible Brand Toolkit

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)

Measurement and Assessment

• The B4SI Framework to measure community investment impact (Business for Societal Impact, 2020, United States)
• Global Impact at Scale: Corporate Action on ESG Issues and Social Investments 2020 (CECP, 2020, Global)
• The Social & Human Capital Protocol (WBCSD and Social & Human Capital Coalition, 2019, United States)
• IMPACT2030 Measurement Framework - A Practitioners Guide (Points of Light)

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)