In overwhelming numbers, employees want their companies to offer ways for them to volunteer. Yet, one-third of employees won’t give through their workplace because they’re not able to choose the causes that matter to them. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, VolunteerMatch presented ways to gauge employee preferences and mobilize employees to give back in the way they want to.

2. About Us
Alvaro Tijero
Director of Growth and Relationships
Tess Srebro
Senior Marketing Manager

3. Logistics
● Type questions in box (left sidebar)
● Q&A will take place after the presentation
● You’ll receive webinar recording and slides tomorrow.

4. ❑ What motivates employees to volunteer
❑ Tactics to understand your employees’ volunteer-related
preferences
❑ Tips for balancing unique employee desires with your
strategic company goals and community needs
❑ Success stories from companies that are succeeding at
employee engagement.
Today You’ll Learn:

5. About VolunteerMatch
Making it easy for good people and good causes to
connect.
• 19 years in operation
• 13.6M annual visitors to
VolunteerMatch.org
• 117K nonprofits
• 103K opportunities/day
• 29 cause areas
• 150+ corporate partners
& organizations
• 13M+ connections
= $11,820,490,373
in social value

6. Who We Serve
Volunteers Nonprofits Companies

7. What Motivates Employees to Volunteer?
● The choice to give how they want
● Feeling that they’re not being pressured to give
“ The desires to give back and volunteer are important to our core
sense of self.”
- Junelle Kroontje, King County Employee Giving Program
“Employees donate for deeply personal, often subconscious,
reasons. On the other side, their employers are likely participating
for largely commercial reasons.”
-Mark Horoszowski and Ty Walrod

8. Understanding Your Employees
All Employees
● Top Motivation: Paid Time Off to Volunteer (VTO)*
Your Employees
● Look at historic volunteer data. Where do employees use their
VTO? What trends do you see?
● Surveys (before and after volunteering)
● Open doors for feedback
*Cone Communications 2017 Snapshot Report

9. A Balancing Act
We want our programs to
have positive impact on:
● Our company
● Our employees
● Our community

10. A Balancing Act
● Develop a clear framework
● Allow for flexibility within that framework
○ VTO
○ Recognition
● Keep nonprofits needs top of mind
● Access a database of searchable volunteer opportunities,
filterable by keyword, cause area, skills, location, and more.

11. The VolunteerMatch Network
“Ask employees to give and you’ll see a handful of one-off
transactions, but empower employees to learn about, connect
with and give to the causes that interest them, and you’ll have
yourself a team of employees championing your company’s
community involvement and cause initiatives.”
- Chris Jarvis, Realized Worth

12. Success Stories

13. Example: Independent Bank

14. Example: Independent Bank
“We feel very strongly that volunteerism is most successful when
people are doing what they’re most passionate about. We found
that when you put people in a box and try to get them to
volunteer for a certain event or cause, it’s not as meaningful.”
- Samantha Gruber, HR Regional Trainer, Independent Bank

15. Example: Appirio

16. Example: Appirio
What makes your volunteer program so successful?
Our company culture. We have a commitment to volunteering at all our
company and team events, which helps our employees get excited about
volunteering.
What is the most unique aspect of your volunteer program?
Our virtual opportunities. About 75% of our employees work remotely
and aren’t about to participate in on-site team events. Therefore, we are
always trying to incorporate new virtual and technical volunteering
opportunities, like getting employees clean out their pantries for donating
food items via a virtual hangout.

17. Questions?

18. Learn more at solutions.volunteermatch.org