Corporate Engagement

Heart of Missouri United Way’s corporate engagement initiatives enhance our region’s commitment to community development by promoting customized and distinctive corporate citizenship opportunities. Heart of Missouri United Way offers quality services and benefits to companies seeking to engage their employees in volunteer leadership experiences, thus helping to build morale and increase overall productivity within our business community. We are committed to working with individual companies to establish a relationship that addresses critical needs in the region and serves a company’s unique needs, standards and goals.

Corporate Engagement: Benefits to Corporations

  • Business-community engagement aids in building brand awareness throughout the local community
  • Strengthens relationships among established and potential consumers, clients, and vendors
  • Enhances image and reputation of business
  • Improves employee morale, retention, productivity, and loyalty
  • Provides an effective vehicle to reach strategic goals

Corporate Engagement: Benefits to Employees

  • Employees that engage in volunteerism at work often report increases in job satisfaction, attitude and morale
  • Improves performance due to an increased focus on teamwork, leadership, and skill development
  • Improves communication between employees, supervisors and across departments
  • Gains additional experience for career growth and professional development

Corporate Engagement: Benefits to Community

  • Offers benefits to community organizations through increased access to a skilled and talented volunteer base
  • Communities value corporate support in bringing needs into focus and quantifying social and community impact
  • Creates partnerships that cross social and economic lines
  • Raises awareness of specific community issues
  • Creates a better community to work and live

Heart of Missouri United Way can assist in customizing unique corporate engagement opportunities aligned with corporate goals and needs. Our customized services include a wide-range of strategies to fit the needs of businesses of various sizes and industries and include the following:

  • Community service opportunities (includes in-house programming)
  • Team-builders, new-hire recruitment strategies, departmental challenges, and networking events
  • Passive programming (including donation drives, informational displays, and lunch lectures)
  • Employee recognition programs (including service incentives, happy hours, volunteer recognition receptions)
  • Opportunities to leverage skill-based volunteers to community agencies in need
  • Ongoing support for individual employee and family volunteer needs and interests
  • Marketing support to assist in publicizing community engagement efforts and a media package following each service project (photo files and/or customized video for communications)
  • Impact reports provided to business (summary of volunteer efforts and value of service provided to community)

Please contact Alexa New, Community Impact Director, by phone (573.443.4523) or e-mail (anew@uwheartmo.org) to build your customized projects today!