Work at Heart is the useful meeting point of organizations, companies, and professionals: we listen, frame, and act precisely where it counts. The result: stronger teams, safer services, and recognized contributions. In short, it’s a VBM-led engagement framework that turns goodwill into lasting capacity in service of communities.
Once upon a time, a small neighborhood organization was overwhelmed by the essential: welcoming, supporting, responding. Everything moved quickly, too quickly to update tools, clarify roles, secure processes, overcome overload. The team knew what needed doing, but not where to start, or how to manage it with limited resources and time.
Across town, a company wanted more than group-volunteering photo ops. It wanted engagement that would help its teams grow, and help a cause grow, too. Between them stood professionals eager to share their know-how and discover a world that felt unfamiliar yet compelling, without imposing, with tact and measure.
That’s where Work at Heart steps in. Within this framework, corporate volunterring covers corporate group volunteering as well as employer-supported skills-based and governance volunteering.
We don’t promise the moon; we create a useful meeting. We listen to the organization and its rhythm. We listen to the company and its culture. We listen to the volunteer and their real time and strengths. Then we ask a simple question: “What would make a lasting difference here, now?”
The mandate is born from that question. Sometimes it’s clearer governance. Sometimes a data flow that finally becomes reliable. Other times, a streamlined communications plan, a safer recruitment process, or a freshly painted space, canal banks cleaned up, meals prepared and ready to be delivered to the most vulnerable. Whatever the form, the intent is the same: transform energy or expertise into capacity.
Putting the heart to work means acknowledging that social impact begins with a disposition: doing one’s trade (management, communications, finance, data, etc.) with care for others, outside the usual frame. It also means turning an ordinary workday with one’s team into concrete attention for the people and teams who hold up the community day after day.
Recognizing the acts that matter
Because putting the heart to work deserves to be seen and celebrated, we build recognition into every mandate: certificates, named thanks, short stories of progress, consent-based visibility in our channels, simple closing rituals. You can even wear the Work at Heart seal after completing an engagement path!
Impact that comes full circle
When corporate groups get involved, they come back more cohesive. Working together on the ground forges new bonds between teammates and strengthens belonging. In skills-based mode, solo volunteers see their profession differently, gain openness and nuance, and bring useful practices back to their daily work. In both cases, they deepen their attachment to an employer that embodies human values. And once back home, they tell the story, to family, friends, neighbors. That story often sparks more volunteering; impact makes a full loop and returns to the community, widening the circle of solidarity.
