Maritz has a long and distinguished history of active community involvement in the St. Louis area, as well as in communities served by our other offices. - from Chris Dornfeld www.MaritzEX.com

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Why Employee Community Service
Programs? Why Not?

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What’s even better is when there are multiple
reasons for doing the right thing.
Volunteer community service programs are worth
doing, simply because it’s good to do the right thing.

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Benefits
“Giver’s glow”​
Lower stress​
Increased camaraderie
Higher retention rates​
Increased brand visibility
Stronger corporate culture​
More engaged citizens​
Additional resources​
Expanded framework for
approaching problems​
Employee Benefits Company Benefits Community Benefits

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Our Own Experience
Maritz has a long and distinguished history of
active community involvement in the St. Louis
area, as well as in communities served by our
other offices.
One recent example:​ "We Learn Together"
elementary school program​
Employee contributions
on both material and personal levels​
Working toward
attendance, culture and student
achievement goals​
8%
attendance increase​
1.5-year average boost
in reading levels​

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Things We’ve Learned Over the Years:
Take It Seriously
Don’t just check the
box and go through the
motions​
Take the time, effort and
funding to really make
the program purposeful​
Give employees paid time
to volunteer, which should
now be a given​

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Look for Projects Offering a Lasting Impact
But for a corporate effort:​
 Select physical projects or people projects
where employees can experience tangible
results
 Years from now, they'll still have
pride for having had a hand in something
positive​
Some projects, such as leaf-raking for the elderly, are great for local-
level initiatives​

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Recognize People for
Their Service
Include community service as a
value in your employee
recognition programs​
 Increases the visibility of these
programs​
 Drives participation​
 Champions behaviors aligned with
the company mission and culture​
 Boosts ROI​

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 Many employees will already be
involved in private community
service efforts​
 Leverage their pre-existing
experiences, energy and passion​
 Involve them in program design and
operation from the start​
Draw Upon
Employee Passion
and Experience​

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Walk the Walk
Leadership has to set the pace​
The better the example, the
greater the belief and confidence
employees will have in their
leaders and in the company
This humanizes leadership
and helps people feel more
connected

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Variety is the Spice
of Service
Corporate leadership often has one or two
main efforts that they either personally
care deeply about, or that carry a long
tradition of involvement​
What a CEO happens to care about
won’t always align with what each
employee happens to care about​
Offer a wide variety of options to appeal to a
wide variety of interests

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Programs That Aren’t
Publicized and Promoted
Don’t Really Exist​
Use internal tools, such as:
Employee
recognition​
Company
intranet​
Emails​ Town halls Posters​
Don’t forget about external publicity as well​

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Align Possible Projects to
Your Corporate Values​
When creating a list of volunteer options, consciously
seek opportunities to connect the work to
your mission statement​
It's a great way to translate company values into an
impact on the community​
Our own example:
Maritz is a company
focused on the development of people
The majority of our 75 project partners
offer some type of educational or
mentoring aspect​

13. Our employees enjoy volunteering
so much that they spent over
3,000 hours
doing it last year​

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Don’t Forget to Look
for the Surprises​
One of our favorite aspects of these
projects are the unexpected things you
find along the way​
 People find they have skills for
things they never tried before
 Employees finally have a chance to
demonstrate hidden talents
 Many employees find themselves
seeing their coworkers in a
new light​
Such new perspectives are important in
cementing a healthy company culture

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Younger Workers Desire
and Expect Community
Service Programs
If you don’t provide them, they’ll
find someone who does​
Yet there are enough reasons to
vigorously support these
efforts that there’s no need to focus
on any single one

16. The question isn’t why should you do
community service programs, but why would you not,
when it creates so much value for your company?

17. Maritz Employee Experience is dedicated to
helping businesses attract, engage and retain
employees and build a culture of passion
and purpose. To learn more about turning
the employee experience into business
results, visit us at MaritzEX.com.