To effectively increase employee engagement, you need to develop new ways to get workers involved. For starters, you could think about starting small clubs for employees to join based on their interests; however, that only goes so far. Aside from clubs or a yearly retreat, try utilizing this list of the best volunteer opportunities to offer employees.
Local Organizations
Whether your team works remotely or in-office, there are many volunteer options to get everyone involved, even if employees are working in a different state. Get together with your team to research local organizations in your community and your employees’ communities.
Make a top ten list of charities to give to employees and let them pick who they want to support for the day or month. By offering the opportunity to go out and support local charities, employers develop a positive, collaborative, and more generous work environment.
Care Packages
Another way to offer volunteer chances to your staff is by asking them to create care packages. Whether they’re for deployed military members or patients at a local hospital, care packages can bring a smile to a stranger’s face to remind them people think about them often.
Your team will have a blast creating boxes of snacks, school supplies, personal care items, and much more to give to others in need. Creating care packages can develop closer bonds between coworkers and offer a bigger perspective on how employees can give back in their free time.
Pet Food Drive
Many animal shelters need supplies, especially with rising costs. Supplies are hard to come by most of the time. By hosting a pet food drive, your employees can come together and help collect and donate to local shelters. The shelter’s furry friends will be grateful you thought of them and helped prevent them from feeling hungry.
Your employees might be eager to continue helping pets in need, so provide them with a list of local animal shelters they can volunteer with in the future.
Eco-Friendly Challenges
Instead of going out into the community or building care packages, fun challenges can help prevent climate change. These small eco-friendly challenges have bigger benefits, like handing out stainless steel water bottles for workers to use instead of plastic water bottles.
Challenges like the stainless steel water bottle challenge can last from two months to a year, depending on how long you want to host it. No matter the challenge, encourage your workers to make an effort in the challenge or create their own challenge for everyone to do after yours.
Every one of these exciting volunteer opportunities for employees to try helps build better bonds, a more positive work environment, and a stronger willingness to collaborate and create more chances to volunteer. Team up with your group to create a chance to volunteer they will remember for years to come.