Roadmap to Corporate Volunteering 2009 - UNDP Trinidad and ...

Foreword
This Roadmap intends to provide a basic start-up tool kit for those companies in Trinidad and
Tobago that are interested in developing an employee volunteer programme. Over the past few
years, many businesses have indicated their willingness to invest into the creation of an internal
volunteer programme that would enable them to go beyond the traditional CSR approach of
charitable giving and to become actively involved in the social and environmental development of
the communities in which they operate. At the same time managers have highlighted the fact that
information about the necessary ‘ingredients’ for such a programme compiled and presented in a
practical format remained sketchy.
This guide is meant to fill this gap. Written for community relations, corporate communications
and human resource managers, it is supposed to be a conceptual framework for programme
development outlining six generic elements in the process of strategically aligning volunteerism
with business objectives. As such, it is a direct contribution towards the creation of inclusive
business models that include poor people into value chains as producers, employees and
consumers and towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Dr. Marcia de Castro
UNDP Resident Representative and
UN Resident Coordinator
UNDP Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname,
Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
Dr. Jens-Ulrich Poppen
UNV Programme Officer
UNDP Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname,
Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
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