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Many for-profit businesses want to invest in their communities by providing volunteer services. These web-based resources can help businesses develop effective corporate volunteer programs.

• Corporate Volunteerism
  Excellent resources by volunteer management consultant Mary Merrill.

• Business Volunteers Unlimited
  BVU helps businesses of various sizes to facilitate their employees' desire to achieve positions of leadership as volunteers, and helps support nonprofits by arranging business support for and engagement in volunteerism.

• Measuring Corporate Volunteerism
  An initiative to study employee volunteering and its impact.

• Philadelphia Cares
  By partnering with over 300 non-profit organizations and public schools in the Greater Philadelphia region, Philadelphia Cares offers corporate volunteers a variety of community service options.

• Bloomington Volunteer Network
  Employee Volunteer Programs: An Introduction
  Examines the national and local industrial record in supporting volunteerism, reviews the motivations of enterprises which have developed such programs, and reports on the methods they employ in implementing their efforts.