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More corporations are letting employees take paid time off to volunteer and helping them find opportunities that mesh with their job skills. Nonprofits get better help, employees love the experience and gain job skills and the corporations are attracting
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A new Deloitte study shows that most corporations can improve their own results by ramping up their volunteer programs. Nothing like self interest to get things rolling.
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ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.
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While we’re on the topic of studies re: volunteering, we actually just gathered a collection of reports produced by nonprofits on just this issue.
Includes some familiar work but also some interesting new perspectives.
http://www.issuelab.org/closeup/Apr_2008
Best,
Gabi
Thanks Gabriela!