• Improves relations with surrounding community
• Improves public image
• Develops cooperation and good relations with community leaders
• Improves recruitment and retention of employees
• Builds a cohesive, motivated work force
• Increases employee performance, productivity
• Improves employee morale and reduces absenteeism
• Adds a potential source of information for corporate philanthropy and community relations programs
• Improves understanding of the community and of the company's customers
• Reduces isolation of employee from community
• Increases effectiveness of corporate philanthropy
• Helps maintain a healthy community, which is essential to business

• Improves leadership and interpersonal skills
• Increases opportunities for employees to explore and develop new areas of expertise
• Increases interaction with employees in other segments and levels of the company
• Adds variety and fulfillment and increases sense of self worth
• Reduces isolation of employees in other segments and levels of the company
• Improves community services which employees and their families use

• Provides new talent and energy by increasing the number of volunteers and the pool of available skills, especially managerial and technical skills. Increases understanding between business and the nonprofit sector
• Supports the quality of life in the community

A donation to the Volunteer Center of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff is requested in return for the development and leadership of the service project as well as the cost of any project supplies. This donation helps fund The Volunteer Center’s year-round project development and volunteering programs.