About corporate volunteering
Leading companies sponsor volunteering by their employees. Benefits include:
- Better employee morale, motivation and team spirit
- Company pride and loyalty
- Skill and knowledge development
- Opportunities to work with people from different parts of their organization, improving your organization's social capital.
- Better corporate image
- New relationship with the wider community
- Potential for team building
Corporate volunteering with Appropedia
Volunteering with Appropedia is especially valuable for green businesses - staff have the opportunity to expand their knowledge, while working with web 2.0 platforms.
Volunteering is primarily online, but depending on the location they may be able to work "on-site" with other Appropedians, or with other staff from the same company who are also volunteering with Appropedia.
Options - the many forms of volunteering include:
- Staff having one paid day per month to volunteer
- Having a staff team work on a specific Appropedia project - developing a topic area, or tackling a site development task
- If you are in an industry with fluctuating demand, allow employees to volunteer at times of low demand. A wiki-based project such as Appropedia is ideal for such an arrangement.
For more information:
- See Appropedia:Internships - corporate volunteers can do similar work, but will have more knowledge and skill to bring to the work than most interns.
- Contact us