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Employee Volunteering





Do you wish to define or reorient your company’s Corporate Citizenship Strategy?

We can help you, from the conception to the launch of a community involvement program based on employee volunteering.

  • Internal Consultation
  • Co-construction of partnerships with non-profit organizations
  • Coordination and management of the program
    

Cisco Systems France : launch of citizenship policy

"Volonteer™ understood rapidly our company's culture to achieve a plan tailored to our needs. Their value was capital to launch our initiatives and get credit from the general management."                                                                                                                 Sylvie Houlier-Mayca, inside sales manager and citizenship leader, Cisco France

 


Establishment of Foundations





    
How to implement employee volunteering in a Foundation? How to select the appropriate legal structure?

Volonteer™ can tailor a project to your specific needs :
  • Identification of the CSR issues 
  • Coordination of the Employee Volunteering Program
  • Launch of a sponsoring program
  • Co-construction of strategic partnerships
  • Organisation of the Prize of the Foundation

The RTE Foundation: launch of a sponsoring program
« We decided to call on Volonteer™’s skills in order to guide us in our analysis for the setting up of a sponsoring program which would include our employees in the activities of the RTE Foundation. Thanks to Volonteer’s internal and external consultation, we have been able to structure this program and to draft a sponsor’s guide. »
Nathalie Devulder, General Manager of the RTE Foundation
 


Events and awareness-raising





Events :


 
Prix des Femmes Formidables

Launched in 2006 by the well-read French magazine Femme Actuelle, in partnership with France Bénévolat, this award honours outstanding women who have carried out an exemplary mission for the benefit of children, solidarity or the environment. Founders, leaders or managers of branches of non-profit organizations, they have all shown boldness, generosity and tenacity in the conduct of their projects. This year, a total of 60 000 euros were donated to the top ten non-profit organizations.
 

Awareness-raising campaign :

Volonteer™ can help you design an awareness campaign on different subjects disability, diversity or volunteering.

Volunteer Day

Designed as a mean to raise the awareness on social issues among your employees, the Volonteer Day can take several forms: a sporting event to raise funds for a non-profit organization, discovery of an organization and discussions with its volunteers, presentation of non-profit organizations at the company's location, etc...

We can help you build a Volonteer Day taking into account your goals and the needs of non-profit-organizations.



Awareness on disability

Nowadays, diversity and equal opportunities are issues at among a company’s core concerns. We organise, in coordination with several non-profit organizations, awareness raising events and campaigns involving real life scenarios and an introduction to compensation tools.

 

BNP Paribas : « change your perception on disability » workshops 

« Raising awareness among our employees is a major concern for the “Projet Handicap” team at BNP Paribas. We needed to be guided by a structure with a good network and for which the human dimension of the projects was a strong value, along with being responsive on our themes. From our first encounter, Octavie Baculard presented us with practical solutions, thanks to her good listening abilities, her open-mind and her creativity. »                                          Dominique Bellion, "Projet handicap" director, BNP Paribas

                        
 


 
 
  Research 
   
 

We carry out research on social issues in collaboration with non-profit organizations.

"Company generosity, key for Human Resources performance" - Survey on Human Resources impact of employee volunteering with the company's support - Octavie Baculard and Anne-Laure Gatignon Turnau (March 2011) - Download

The survey shows that the more the employees perceive the support of their company as genuine and selfless, the more they have a feeling of working for a generous company, the more their attitudes towards the company are positive and the more their satisfaction and involvement are high, which are keys to the company's performance. Read the summary

 
   

« From Philanthropy to community investment » : a study on the evaluation of partnerships between non-profits and business - Octavie Baculard (February 2009).

« Having worked with Volonteer previously and appreciated their reactivity and their knowledge of the common motives in establishing partnerships between non-profit organizations and companies, it was only natural that we thought of them for the evaluation of our partnerships. »
Vincent Godebout, Community affairs and partnerships manager Secours Catholique

    
 


« Employee volunteering, a new form of Corporate Citizenship » - Octavie Baculard.

This sudy discusses the recent emergence of Employee Volunteering in France. The study underlines the benefits for the stakeholders (companies, employees, non-profit organizations) proving the importance of CSR in corporations’ competitiveness.