VolunteerMatch Client Summit to Bring Together Leaders in Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Engagement and Cause Marketing to "Bridge CSR Communities"

(3BL Media) March 26, 2012 - VolunteerMatch, the Web’s largest volunteer engagement network, will host more than a hundred corporate social responsibility (CSR) and volunteer engagement experts and practitioners at its annual Client Summit in San Francisco, May 17-18, 2012.

This year’s theme of “Bridging CSR Communities” acknowledges the unique approaches companies have for CSR and volunteer engagement programs, and brings them together to share insights that will strengthen each of these individual CSR communities. The invitation-only event features topics such as building a purpose-driven business culture, measuring ROI and social impact in CSR programs, harnessing social media to advance employee volunteering and CSR efforts, corporate-nonprofit partnership strategies and using storytelling to more effectively communicate impact for executive buy-in.    Summit highlights include: 

• Tips from Carol Cone, Global Vice Chair of Edelman Business + Social Purpose, on how to create a corporate culture energized through citizenship and community involvement.
   
• Breaking down the barriers to active engagement from social good experts from Global Giving, Network for Good and VolunteerMatch – a panel led by Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service & Volunteering.
   
• Insightful discussions led by CSR experts from Veraworks, Realized Worth and the Cause Marketing Forum.
   
• Resource sharing and best practices from professionals in the VolunteerMatch community of more than 150 network partners.
   
• Presentation of the 2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards.  Last year’s award recipients included Los Alamos National Laboratory (Employee Volunteer Program of the Year – Large Company), Hagerty Insurance (Employee Volunteer Program of the Year – Small-Medium Size Company), Discovery Communications (Breakout Performance) and team members from Union Bank (Champions of the Year).

Generous supporters of the 2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit include Gap Inc., Charles Schwab and 3BL Media.    To learn more about the 2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit, please visit: http://www.volunteermatchsummit.org   To learn more about VolunteerMatch Solutions, please visit: http://www.volunteermatch.org/corporations   About VolunteerMatch   VolunteerMatch is the Web's largest volunteer engagement network, with more than 80,000 participating nonprofits, 150 network partners and 8 million visitors each year. Founded in 1998, VolunteerMatch offers solutions to make it easier for individuals, nonprofits and companies to make a difference. The award-winning nonprofit service supports some of America’s most recognized institutions including Charles Schwab, Google, General Mills, Easter Seals, the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts of the USA. Since its launch VolunteerMatch has helped nonprofits attract more than $2 billion worth of volunteer services. VolunteerMatch is a two-time Webby Award winner, a Smithsonian inductee, and has been recognized for its work by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, TIME, Oprah Winfrey and Presidents Clinton and Bush. To learn more, visit www.volunteermatch.org.    # # #