5 Ways Businesses Can Break the Mold and Give Back This Holiday Season

Generocity.org has some ideas on how to bring your company into the spirit of the season.

With the season of giving underway, it’s a good time for companies to reassess or even expand their humanitarian activities. This can mean encouraging employees to volunteer at a local nonprofit or donating to medical research. It can also mean developing a program that diverts waste products to a nonprofit that can reuse them.

No matter the cause, it is most important for your company to develop an ongoing relationship with a nonprofit that aligns with your values and employees. When both parties understand each other’s perspectives and goals, it makes it that much easier to identify ways to collaborate.

Although the ideas below are intentionally broad as to be applicable to most companies, they avoid the most obvious recommendations: donate more, volunteer more, and be as sustainable and community-­minded as possible.

1. Become a skills­based volunteer

While most nonprofits could use more funding, there are many other services they need that businesses are uniquely suited to offer. Technical and financial support, for example, can be a big help to volunteer­run nonprofits who have minimal expertise beyond the social service they provide. Read about the other four tips at PBJ.com

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