Other Ways to Celebrate
Sample Activities
Besides participating in CAREDAYS, there are countless ways to celebrate Companies That Care Day. In recent years, organizations have celebrated by:
- Sending notes from senior management to employees expressing their appreciation for employee efforts
- Providing on-site massages for all staff
- Holding employee-wide meetings
- Publicizing the organization’s commitment to employees and the community via banners and shirts
- Providing employees an opportunity to recognize each other by sending “caregrams”
- Providing an appreciation lunch for all employees
- Holding a drawing and giving “care packages” to the winners
- Making a donation to groups supporting the medically uninsured
Some other possibilities include:
- Communicate the Companies That Care Statement of Commitment:
We believe that our employees and the community are important to our success. Therefore, we are committed to
1) providing a workplace in which employees can thrive and 2) working to sustain and strengthen our community.
- Conduct focus groups to determine what employees perceive they are recognized for and what they want to be recognized for
- Hang banners and posters throughout the building to commemorate the Day
- Hold an ice cream social to recognize vendors that care
- Have managers spend the day in training courses to hone their people skills
- Establish an anonymous hotline for employees to report ethics violations
- Hold a volunteer fair to highlight all the volunteer opportunities within the community
Resources to Celebrate Companies That Care Day
Center for Companies That Care can provide a range of ideas and materials you can customize to implement your own Companies That Care Day theme at your company. Please contact Center for Companies That Care at info@companies-that-care.org or 312-661-1010 if you are interested in any of the following:
- Fundraising ideas
- Sample CEO talking points about why it’s important to be a company that cares and Companies That Care Day
- Sample employee e-mail announcements
- Sample press release for media about your organization’s participation in the Day