It's our goal to provide you with as many resources as possible to get a successful business volunteer program started or improve an existing program. Below are a variety of resources we pulled together that we think you might find helpful.

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Co-Workers and Change Makers: Employee Volunteer Program's Steps to Success for Small to Medium Sized Businesses (Points of Light Foundation, 2006)
Small and medium-sized businesses can affect a change in the way private enterprise contributes to public good through employee volunteer programs (EVPs). EVPs offer great benefits to businesses and employee volunteers themselves, including enhanced employee loyalty, satisfaction, retention, recruiting, productivity, camaraderie and even stability during organizational changes, as well as service-learning opportunities for professional development as volunteers practice increased management, professional or technical skills. Includes additional resources at the end.

Effective Practices in Workplace Volunteering (Points of Light Foundation, 2004)
This document provides guidelines for companies to build and enhance their employee volunteer programs.

Developing a Group Project for Your Business (Points of Light Foundation, 2002)
Tips for developing a group project in a business setting.

Engaging Employee Volunteers (Points of Light Foundation, 2003)
Engaging Employee Volunteers is designed to help nonprofits manage an employee volunteer program (EVP).

Helping Employees to Help Others (Nation's Business, 1999)
Published courtesy of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Helping Employees to Help Others speaks about how employee volunteer programs can pay dividends for companies.

Making the Business Case: Determining the Value of Corporate Community Involvement (Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, 2001)
Published courtesy of the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, Making the Business Case examines the role of corporate community involvement and its impact on areas such as human resources, marketing, financial performance and reputation capital.

Policies and Procedures of the Best Employee Volunteer Programs (Points of Light Foundation, 2007)
The Benchmarks of Excellence research of the Points of Light Foundation is an excellent source of data for volunteer centers on how to best work with companies.

Principles of Excellence for Workplace Volunteering (Points of Light Foundation, 2006)
The Points of Light Foundation, working with a committee of its business members, created the Principles of Excellence in Workplace Volunteering to establish a set of standards for effective and sustainable employee volunteer programs (EVP). The publication can be purchased by contacting the Points of Light and Hands On Network at CVDInfo@PointsofLight.org. An online scorecard can be found by clicking the link above.

The State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S.: Business Perspectives in 2005 (Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, 2005)
This report presents a completely updated picture of what American business is doing in the name of corporate citizenship and the attitudes of business leaders toward the business role in society. This survey of more than 1,100 executives is the only study of corporate citizenship to query leaders from small, medium and large businesses.

A Summary of Current State of Knowledge: Using Employee Volunteering to Benefit HR Departments (Points of Light Foundation, 2006)
This report includes recommendations for HR departments to encourage working collaboratively with their employee volunteer programs.