Eric Franzo - Purposely Blog

The Ups (and Downs) of National Volunteer Week

It’s always an exciting time of the year when National Volunteer Week rolls around. But if we’re being honest, Purposely members know that every week is a volunteer week. The truth is, nonprofits can use some support year round.

Employee Volunteering

Volunteering Through Adversity

Volunteering is one of those activities that just has “feel good” built right into it. But not every volunteer role is smooth sailing, and depending on the role, you may need to take on a challenging or difficult task that pushes you outside of your comfort zone.

Feature Updates

Tech Update: Purposely’s Picks

One of the most consistent challenges we hear from companies is that it’s just downright difficult to find great volunteer opportunities for teams. Today we're changing that.

Purpose Days

Quest Purpose Day💜: Case Study

Since our very first Purpose Day back in April we’ve been fortunate to work with a number of local Vancouver nonprofits to help them tackle high impact projects. With

Purpose Days

STEMCELL Purpose Day💜: Case Study

Sometimes you get to spend time with a group of folks that brighten up your day. We partnered up with STEMCELL Technologies to help organize a volunteer event for some

Feature Updates

Volunteering is Better Together

We’re introducing new features that help bring teams together in fun and impactful ways.

Employee Volunteering

Celebrating Earth Day

We recently kicked off our first “Purpose Day”— volunteer events that are fully coordinated by us, for companies.

Purposely, Now with Slack!

We're excited to announce that Purposely is now integrated with Slack 🎉 We’ve built the Purposely experience right into your Slack workspace.

Company Updates

A Year in Review: Purposely's Growth in 2020

I think more than anything else this year, we've had to accept and embrace vulnerability. That's a hard thing to do personally, and it's just as hard to do as a company.

Corporate Volunteering

Finding the Best Volunteer Opportunities for Your Employees

Options like workplace volunteering are becoming increasingly popular as a way to help employees contribute to causes they care about and create broader meaning at work.

Volunteering

Volunteering as a CSR Investment

Let me start off by saying not everything has to be about money. The beauty of volunteering is that it's one of the few times where we can selflessly give of ourselves.

Volunteering

The Dollar Value of Volunteering

Not-for-profit organizations are one of the few entities in the world that rely solely on the giving spirit of folks like you and me. We give in a number of ways, including direct monetary donations, or volunteering our time.

Company Updates

Changes Are a'Comin'

We want to make it so companies don’t have to think twice about empowering employees to spend work time giving back and using their skills to volunteer. Work should be more than just satisfying the bottom line— it should help give support and meaning to the causes we cherish most.

Company Updates

Scheduling

The team here at Purposely is on a never ending quest to help make your volunteer management experience simple, intuitive, and one that "just works" (sorry Apple!). That&

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