Pledge to Recycle

Pledge to Recycle
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When I was grocery shopping at the local P&C, I saw this banner above the front office. Employees had signed their pledge to help make the store's recycling efforts successful.

Skills-Based Volunteerism

In a guest column on Fortune online, Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg discusses that employee volunteerism, particularly volunteer opportunities that capitalize on the skills possessed by a company's workforce (e.g., IT, Marketing, Personell Management), can bring value to non-profit organizaitons, communities, companies, and the employees involved in the volunteer programs. While an internal Deloitte survey* found that 91% of respondents felt skills-based volunteering would promote training and development, only 16% of companies offer skills-based EVPs. This is an area that companies should investigate to integrate into their CSR initiatives.

* Details of the survey are not available in the column; not sure if it was sent to Deloitte employees or other companies

FORTUNE Column