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2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards

Central to the annual VolunteerMatch Client Summit is the 2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards ceremony. On May 17, 2012 winners of the following categories will be announced:

Employee Volunteer Program of the Year – Large Size Business:

Awarded to a client with outstanding performance in corporate volunteer engagement, determined by performance against four benchmark measures. The 2012 nominees for this award are:

  • Google
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
  • UnitedHealth Group

Employee Volunteer Program of the Year – Small-Medium Size Business:
Awarded to a client with outstanding performance in corporate volunteer engagement, determined by performance against four benchmark measures. The 2012 nominees for this award are:

  • Amway
  • City National Bank
  • Hagerty Insurance
  • NV Energy
  • Old National Bank

Champions of the Year:
Awarded to individuals representing VolunteerMatch clients that display outstanding teamwork, leadership, accomplishment, dedication and spirit.

Breakout Performance:
Awarded to a new VolunteerMatch client that has showed significant success for a newly launched program.

The two Program of the Year awards are determined by four benchmark measures, based on client’s 2011 performance. The benchmarks include:

  1. Program Reach – The percentage of employees at the company that participate in the VolunteerMatch solution; a measurement of communications success and access.

  2. Connection Rate – The percentage of unique visitors that took an action, such as referred /signed-up for a volunteer opportunity, or tracked hours through the VolunteerMatch solution.

  3. Volunteer Rate – The number of hours tracked through the VolunteerMatch solution for every 1,000 employee volunteers per year at the company.

  4. Volunteer Impact – The average number of hours tracked per employee volunteer. This benchmark is determined by calculating the total number of hours tracked by the total number of employees that participated at the company.

Learn more about this year's finalists.

Past Award Winners

Employee Volunteer Program: Large Businesses
2011 - Los Alamos National Laboratory

2010 - Exelon Corporation

2009 - Exelon Corporation

2008
- Exelon Corporation

Employee Volunteer Program: Small-to-Medium
2011 - Hagerty Insurance
2010 - Hagerty Insurance

Champion of the Year
2011 - Ryan Bjorkquist & Jan Woolsey of Union Bank

2010 - Sue Osten & Debra Kruse of UnitedHealth Group

2009 -
Joan Steinberg, Lina Klebanov, Sasha Greene of Morgan Stanley
2008 -
Selene Edmunds, Sherri Morgan, Shelley Outlaw of LexisNexis

Breakout Performance
2011 - Discovery Communications

2011 Award Winners

Awards Honoring Excellence in Our Communities

In 2011 we expanded our annual awards for excellence in program administration to recognize a "Breakout Performance" - an outstanding new arrival to our family of companies.


Employee Volunteer Program: Large Businesses
2011 - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Employee Volunteer Program: Small-to-Medium
2011 - Hagerty Insurance

Champion of the Year
2011 - Ryan Bjorkquist & Jan Woolsey of Union Bank

Breakout Performance
2011 - Discovery Communications


>> Read about the 2011 finalists on our blog, Volunteering Is CSR

>> Find out the criteria for Employee Volunteer Award finalists