Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas company headquartered in Oklahoma City, collaborates with local nonprofits to meet community needs and strengthen the places they call home. Currently, they have operation sites in six states: Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming. Recently, Chesapeake Energy and its employees held a Chesapeake for Kids Week to raise funds [...]
The Oklahoma City Dodgers, a Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, partnered with the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board and Community Health Charities to host American Indian Health Fund Night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark on August 17, 2018. The baseball team provided tickets at a discounted rate and donated $2 from every game ticket sold to the American [...]
Americans favor health above all causes When it comes to charitable donations, Americans favor health above all other causes. Grey Matter Research and Opinions4Good asked a demographically representative sample of 1,000 donors to name their one favorite donor-supported organization (excluding a local place of worship). This wasn’t a measure of which organizations pull in the [...]
BY: Jerome Tennille, MSL, CVA, Manager of Volunteerism for Marriott International Here are some tips from Jerome Tennille, Marriott International’s Manager of Volunteerism, Culture, and Business Councils, to ensure that your nonprofit leverages volunteer efforts to build successful partnerships with companies: If possible, avoid the unsustainable single day of service [...]
By: Jessica Jenkins, Project Manager at Realized Worth; Health Benefits of Volunteering for the Employee Volunteer - There are many well-documented business benefits that spring from employee volunteering programs (EVPs). The CSR industry is becoming increasingly familiar with the value of EVPs, but there is another growing body of literature emerging about the benefits of [...]
By: Rebekah Bastian, Vice President of Community & Culture at Zillow Group; Cultural Quantum Mechanics - I never thought quantum mechanics would teach me a lesson about the human experience, but it did. When I was taking a physics class once, we spent a little time learning about Wave-Particle Duality. This is a quantum [...]
By: Chris Jarvis, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Realized Worth, Executive Director, RW Institute; The Science Behind Why Employee Giving & Volunteering Works - Typical human resource theory and practice has suggested that the best way to strengthen employee commitment is through benefit packages that appeal to the individual’s self-interested motives to receive. New research [...]
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By: Danielle Holly, CEO of Common Impact; Cross-Company Collaboration: Creating Regional Impact through Skills-Based Volunteering - As an organization focused on connecting talented business professionals with nonprofit organizations to build capacity for the social sector, Common Impact is excited to see an increased appetite for pro bono service across companies of all shapes and [...]
