Creating opportunities for your employees to volunteer with the nation's most trusted health charities is a great way to support your overall employee engagement strategy and corporate social responsibility efforts.  When a company partners with Community Health Charities, its professional staff throughout the country can work with you. CHC serves as a single point of contact to coordinate volunteer opportunities with our diverse portfolio of more than 60 credible member health charities.

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When a company partners with Community Health Charities, its professional staff throughout the country can work with you. CHC serves as a single point of contact to coordinate volunteer opportunities with our diverse portfolio of more than 60 credible member health charities. CHC can aid in the coordination of your corporate volunteer program activities.

Skills Based Volunteering
Skills based volunteerism utilizes the skills, experience, talents and education of volunteers and matches them with the needs of nonprofits. By leveraging all types of knowledge and expertise, volunteerism helps build and sustain nonprofits’ capacity to achieve their missions successfully. Individual skilled volunteers may offer their particular expertise to a nonprofit agency.

Project Volunteering - TEAM UP!
Team up to support a local walk-a-thon, sport-related special event, or other public awareness activity. See the passion and commitment your employees feel when they partner with Community Health Charities and its members to improve the health of their own community. Team building is just one of many benefits to companies who support community-based volunteer activities.

Pro Bono Volunteering
Volunteers may contribute their expertise directly to a nonprofit’s internal operations, strengthening the infrastructure and capacity of the organization. This type of project utilizes core competencies that all businesses need – whether in the private or nonprofit sector – to be efficient and effective, including:

• Strategic and Business Planning
• Marketing and Communications
• Information Technology Logistics
• Human Resources and Organizational Development
• Finance and Accounting
• Product Development Fundraising and Development
• Multi-media Strategy
• Project and Program Management

To learn more about the Volunteer Matters 365 program of Community Health Charities contact Nicole Cook, Director, Corporate Relations, 703-528-1007, ext. 104, or email campaigns@healthcharities.org.

Funding for the development of the Volunteer Matters 365 search tool was made possible through a gift from The Merck Company Foundation