Giving Compass' Take:

• Val Bisharat, writing for TriplePundit, a corporate community service model for engaging employees in volunteering initiatives called In Good Company. 

• The model includes a network of values-driven businesses that donate their time and resources to communities in need. How can donors help strengthen these programs? What is the broader role for funders interested in CSR programs?

• Here are three benefits of corporate volunteering. 

Corporate volunteerism tends to have a singular look: Employees from one company, volunteering together for part or all of one day. That has been — and remains — a valuable and important approach for the benefit of communities throughout the United States. But I’m part of a group of businesses that has been experimenting with another volunteer model for the past decade — an approach we think is more powerful and transformative. It involves multiple companies coming together, each lending employees to volunteer as a group for a week at a time, often in communities far from home — living, eating and working together as a team.

We call the approach In Good Company, an alliance of values-driven businesses that join forces to donate time, energy, tools and materials to communities in need of access to healthy food, adequate housing and a healthy environment. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to organize and several times a year lead In Good Company volunteers on week-long projects that transform lives and communities across the country.

In Good Company was formed from the belief that collaboration among businesses can be a powerful force for positive change, and that we can accomplish more together than alone. With each project, we see our vision coming to life.

Read the full article about In Good Company by Val Bisharat at TriplePundit.