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Volunteering and Engagement
“We see programs like the TD Volunteer Network as a win for everyone: the bank, the community, our employees and especially the lives of the people they touch. Enabling employees to combine what they’re passionate about with what they do day to day at work helps them feel more con- nected to the organization.”
Teri Currie, Group Head, Direct Channels, Corporate Shared Services, Marketing and People Strategies
Connecting Communities and Employees
We’ve created several initiatives to make it easier for employees to support and connect with communities in need:
TD Volunteer Network: In 2013, we introduced a new system to take volunteer- ing to the next level. The TD Volunteer Network is an online platform that connects willing volunteers to local opportunities. TD employees can build a profile, specify skills, find activities that fit their interests and professional development, track volunteer hours and apply for a TD Volunteer Grant. Most volunteer platforms go this far, but we took it a step further by inviting organizations to directly post volunteer opportunities, giving them access to over 85,000 employees.
In the first six months after launching the TD Volunteer Network, 11,091 employees registered on the system and logged over 29,000 hours volunteering.
Volunteer Grants program: For every 40 hours or more employees spend volunteering with a registered charity in a 12-month period, they are eligible to receive a $500 grant that TD will make on their behalf to the charity.
In Canada, TD donated $317,500 in Volunteer Grants to 510 different organiza- tions where TD employees volunteered. In the U.S., employee Volunteer Grants totalled $103,000.
TD-sponsored opportunities: We’ve developed our own campaigns, such as TD Tree Days, to engage employees in helping their communities.
Volunteering for United Way: The largest employee fundraising campaign at TD is for the United Way. Employees get involved through local agency tours, silent auctions, volunteerism and events such as bake-off or paint-off competitions. In 2013, employees increased their giving by raising $14.7 million.
TD’s Employee Giving to United Way (in millions of dollars)
Total
2013 Activities
TD employees volunteered in many different ways. Here are three examples:
• More than 70 TD employees in the U.K. undertook three weeks of “intensive” volunteering last fall in Leeds, with activities ranging from neighbourhood litter cleanups to serving hot meals to homeless and vulnerable adults at St. George’s Crypt.
• In the U.S., employees donated more than six truckloads of necessity items for our troops overseas. Fifty volunteers contributed 115 hours over two days organizing the donations and creating 1,228 care packages to be sent to the troops through Operation Shoebox.
• In Quebec, 102 TD volunteers visited nine schools to teach L’économie pour le succès, a Junior Achievement (JA) program that outlines the advantages of staying in school. Our employees represented 33% of JA’s entire volunteer base for school programs last year.
2013 14.7
2012 14.0
2011 12.5
TD 2013 Corporate Responsibility Report
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