(from Susan's Tip of the Month in the Monthly e-Mail Update)
If you are working with corporate volunteers and want a new approach to getting people to volunteer, try running friendly competitions between departments. With the agreement of one key person in each unit, announce that the payroll department challenges the editorial department to see which unit can pick up the most bags of trash at the weekend park clean-up. Or keep a running tally of how many hours of tutoring each department has logged (or how many children were taken on a trip) by showing thermometer charts side by side (like a horse race). This can be done in-house by the corporate volunteer coordinator or any agency volunteer coordinator can supply the company with the information to post.