Doing Well by Doing Good Part II

In my last post, I talked about the great panel discussion Doing Well by Doing Good presented by the Main Line Chamber of Commerce.   In a previous post here I had discussed why I am not in favor of paid time off for employees to volunteer.   I was pleased to hear Mandy Cabot, the CEO of Dansko discuss their employee volunteer plan.  Dansko will accumulate the time that an employee volunteers and then donate the value of that time to the charity of the employee’s choice.  This program preserves the true spirit of volunteerism and still provides the employer a way to financially support an employee’s charity.