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Making This One Thing Part of Your Company Culture Will Boost Employee Engagement and Retention

Linkedin Talent Blog

While establishing employee volunteer programs is an obvious way for companies to give back to their communities and build their brands, there’s an additional benefit: volunteer programs are a powerful engagement and retention tool. During “Genentech Gives Back Week,” employees are encouraged to volunteer at nonprofits during paid work hours.

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10 LGBTQIA+ Authors and Creators You Should Know About

PowerToFly

Additionally, Lex works with higher education institutions, nonprofits and businesses creating LGBTQIA+ curriculum and training, developing inclusive policy, producing educational resources, and providing feedback and action steps to address areas of growth (and for Lex’s business partners, they create marketing and campaign development plans).

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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, but Maybe Volunteering Does

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Companies that used such benefits as a strategic tool for recruitment and retention reported a 58% better overall company performance compared with 34% that did not. Employees are able to designate nonprofits they’re passionate about and take time off to volunteer. Blended Work Life. What Works with VTO.

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29 Best Books on Recruitment (MUST Read Resources for Recruiters)

Recruiting Blogs

Talent Management Systems: Best Practices in Technology Solutions for Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Planning. First published in 2011, Hiring for Attitude is written by Mark Murphy. The author has over three decades of leadership experience in higher education, business, and nonprofits. Quotes from the book.

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10 Small-to-Mid Size Employer Brands that Punch Above Their Weight

Breezy HR

Since launching in 2011, Classy has helped more than 2,500 world-class non-profits including Oxfam America, World Food Program USA and National Geographic in order to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help people in need all over the globe. We don’t know what Sprout’s retention rate is, but we’re guessing it’s pretty high.

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AHA Pinpoints Critical Health Care Issues and Trends for 2015

CareerBuilder

nonprofit hospitals and health systems are accelerating and, after a period of strong and steady recovery from the recession and financial crisis of 2008, the outlook for the sector is now negative. Medicare readmission rates have declined substantially since 2011 to less than 18 percent. In 2012, only 62.9 Economy & Finance.

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