Summertime CSR Reading: Top 2017 Blogs So Far

Liz Bardetti
Aug 9, 2017 · 3 min read

Summertime is all about kicking back, relaxing, and enjoying a great read. But, that doesn’t mean your Corporate Social Responsibility endeavors need to be put on hold! You can relax, learn, and strategize all while reading up on the latest philanthropy resources. Don’t believe us? Below we’ve gathered our top 6 CSR articles from 2017 (so far!) for your perusal. Find out how to engage employees, use payroll integration, and more!

Get to reading and start improving your CSR processes today!

1. Fundraising Opportunities

Your company may already do gift-matching, product donations, or volunteering events, but one of the best ways to engage employees and give back is to hold fundraising events to benefit a local charity. If you’re looking for high-impact events, we’ve compiled the best ways for you to get started. Take a look!

2. Recruiting Millennial Employees

Millennials are now surpassing the Gen-Xers to become the largest workforce, and by 2020 nearly half of all U.S. workers will be Millennials. This generation is coming into the workforce and seeking to be part of a greater purpose while wanting involvement in corporate philanthropy efforts. Are you offering these opportunities? Learn more!

3. Employee Engagement for Corporate Philanthropy

With CSR on the rise, it’s essential to figure out exactly how your business plans to participate and what you can do to make a difference. But, creating an actual program isn’t the only factor to consider. Once you know how you want to make an impact, what can you do to get your employees involved? Here’s what can be done!

4. The Value of Giving

How do companies engage the communities they live, work and play in? How do they care? It is engrained in everything they do from warmly greeting guests at their front door to how they go about selecting capital investment partners. And, this is why it matters so much!

5. Payroll Integration

Providing employees with the choice to make monetary donations straight from their paycheck is the most common component of employee engagement. Increase your employee giving participation by adding payroll integration into your corporate social responsibility program and reap these benefits!

6. Creating Better Grantmaking

Creating a culture in which trustees and staff are at their best performance isn’t easy, but it is attainable and the outcome allows organizations to ensure the nonprofits they hope to support are successful and strong. Find out how to improve your own grantmaking efforts!

About Liz Bardetti:

Seasoned advertising and marketing professional with 15+ years experience, including work for Gatorade, Welch’s and most recently, CyberGrants. CyberGrants is the preferred CSR software provider to the best philanthropic corporations around the globe. Our clients represent over 50% of the Fortune 100 and nearly one-third of all corporate giving. In the last twelve months alone, CyberGrants helped 250 customers give $6.5 billion plus more than 50 million volunteer hours to over 400,000 non-profit organizations.

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Seasoned marketing expert with 15+ years of experience. Passionate about making incredible happen for the world around us | http://www.cybergrants.com/

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