Tag Archives: EVP

How Do You Measure Something As Elusive As Impact?–Interview with Andy Mercy

If you measure progress, you can improve it. But how exactly do you measure the growth of something as elusive as impact? That’s what AngelPoints, Andy Mercy’s company, does well, which is why I invited him to do a Cause Capitalism interview. Andy founded AngelPoints after stumbling into a volunteer experience at work and being underwhelmed […]

Microsoft’s Organic Approach To Its $90M Employee Philanthropy Program–with Akhtar Badshah

Can Microsoft count social good among its top products? It’s a hard question to answer (for starters, defining and measuring social good is tough) but a fair question to ask in the context of Microsoft’s employee culture of social involvement. Last year, employee giving and company matched funds totaled nearly $90 million. Volunteer time is […]

Should Your Company Be Volunteering For Bravado? (This Company Is)

As a sign of their technological and business prowess, iTeleport employees volunteer one day every week with the Khan Academy, a non-profit working to provide top-level education for free to anyone with access to a computer. It’s not a marketing or publicity ploy and it’s not a recruitment tool (directly, at least).  iTeleport founder Jahanzeb […]

What Your Startup Brings to the Table: A Social Mission With Few Resources

If you’re running a small startup, you’re tight on resources and hungry for any competitive advantage you can find–a broader audience, high-quality employees, brand differentiation, media attention and evangelizing customers.  I won’t spend time telling you that social mission programs like cause marketing and employee volunteer programs can yield all this.  That you know. But did […]

The Fundamentals of Building An Employee Volunteer Program

As companies, we spend a lot of time trying to attract the best employees, make them happy, increase productivity, create a corporate culture and positively present our selves to the community. As a socially driven business, we also spend the time and resources to develop practices that advance the mission we stand for. Chris Jarvis […]

Better Employees, Finances and Image: Why and How to Create A Corporate Volunteer Program–With Chris Jarvis

Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Like this interview?  You can thank Chris on Twitter like this. With a poke in the chest, Chris Jarvis was asked a question on a street corner that stripped away what he knew […]