Create Impactful Employee Engagements
The corporate sector represents a powerful force for change. When you invest volunteers, expertise, and financial resources, your corporation can strengthen communities and impact social change.
How we work with you.
We take a fully customized consultative approach to partner with you to design, develop, and implement volunteer programming - both hands-on and pro bono - for your employees that fits within your business objectives and company values, is captivating for your employees, expands your support to organizations you already give to, and - ultimately - makes a huge impact in our community.
Below are examples of this work:
General Mills
We support General Mills throughout the year on volunteer projects, from pro bono engagements to ongoing hands-on projects. Hundreds of volunteers are activated on volunteer projects like packing meals at The Food Group, refreshing community gardens at The Good Acre, and making spice kits for CLUES.
Target
We provide ongoing support to Target volunteerism goals throughout the year. From snack packs and blanket making to an annual intern volunteer event at a nonprofit location and custom 12-week pro bono projects with small businesses, we help create impactful and meaningful engagements with their team.
Boston Scientific
We support Boston Scientific on their annual Week of Service, where hundreds of employees are activated across a dozen custom volunteer projects throughout the Twin Cities. These projects include: mulching, invasive plants removal, painting, storage cleanup, and facilitating a sports day.
We deliver managed hands-on volunteer projects at your worksite or out in the community for 25-1000+ participants. Project examples include toys for animal rescues, food packaging, outdoor beautification, and more! We coordinate every logistical element to plan, execute, and manage your customized employee volunteer service project, ensuring a meaningful experience for participants.
Below are examples of this work:
Pohlad Family Foundation's 30th Anniversary
Participate in our hackathon-style events that match nonprofits with professionals offering their expertise pro bono to build capacity and develop lasting solutions.
Geronimo Power (formerly National Grid Renewables)
We partner with them throughout the year for Earth Day, their Annual Retreat, 9/11 Day, and the holiday season. Projects include making holiday breakfast for veterans and their families at the VA Fisher House, running summer games for seniors at St. Therese at Oxbow Lake, and mulching a playground for youth with disabilities at True Friends Camp Eden Wood.
HB Fuller's Make a Difference Day
We support Boston Scientific on their annual Week of Service, where hundreds of employees are activated across a dozen custom volunteer projects throughout the Twin Cities. These projects include: mulching, invasive plants removal, painting, storage cleanup, and facilitating a sports day.
We work with you to craft a hands-on project that is ready to be delivered, opened, and completed by your employees wherever they are. These projects are highly customizable and examples include sock bundles for the homeless and snack packs for under-served youth. Available to anyone but an ideal option to deliver a seamless giving opportunity for cross-country teams.
Below are examples of this work:
No Sew Fleece Tied Blankets
No Sew Fleece Tied Blankets not only provide warmth in the colder months, but also provide comfort to individuals experiencing crisis, transition, or trauma. Volunteers will form groups of 3-4 and create No Sew Fleece Tied Blanket using fleece fabric and fabric scissors provided.
Snack Packs
Volunteers will help fight hunger by decorating a paper snack bag using markers and stencils, and then each volunteer will fill their bag with snacks to help fill the gaps between meals.
Sock Bundles
Socks are a constant ask by many homeless shelters and other nonprofits serving the homeless, low-income populations, and resettling communities. Volunteers will create a sock bundle by bundling a pair of socks with snacks and hygiene items.
Offering pro bono opportunities to your employees plays a key role in helping attract, retain, and develop skilled talent. We tailor pro bono opportunities for your employees that make a huge impact in our community. Through our Pro Bono Advisory Program, we design, develop, and implement innovative ways for employees to use their skills for good from day-long events to robust sustainable engagements.
Corporate
Corporate talent is a powerful force for good. Investing employee skills and resources strengthens communities, fosters professional growth, and advances lasting social impact.
Nonprofit
Any nonprofit with a capacity-building need or project. Whether you’re exploring a new initiative, seeking strategic guidance, or looking to strengthen internal operations, we want to collaborate with you.
Volunteer
Professionals with expertise in areas such as Finance, HR, Marketing, or Technology are invited to apply to share their skills with nonprofits in need of capacity-building.
Connected For Change leverages the collective skills of volunteers and organizations to create solutions for positive social impact. We pair nonprofits in need of capacity-building support to a team of experts in their field who give their time pro bono to tackle challenges and develop tangible solutions. As a sponsor of Connected For Change, we reserve space for your employees to participate as pro bono volunteers.
We provide complementary volunteer opportunity referrals to nonprofit partners based on community need and your employee interest. At 100 years young, we are the nation’s first and only full service volunteer center and work with more than 500 nonprofits annually. We are confident we will be able to find your ideal nonprofit partner.
Past & Present Corporate Partners include:
Our impact in 2024-2025:
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13,500+ corporate volunteers engaged
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299 custom corporate projects delivered
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23,500+ service hours
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120+ nonprofits supported through corporate hands-on projects
About our Corporate Projects Program
Through our hands-on corporate volunteer projects program, we partner with companies to engage their employees in opportunities that best fit the impact focus of the company as well as the goals of the community.
We provide engaging volunteer projects at worksites, for remote teams, and offsite and in the community for 25-1,000+ participants. Volunteer projects are highly customizable and can be determined by your vision, goals, and community needs. Also, we coordinate donation drives, learning sessions about nonprofits, volunteer fairs, and more!
Interested in partnering with us?
Let us know how our team can support your company and make a huge impact on the community!