Publications and Toolkits

This report assess the overall degree to which respondents considered the pending retirement of “baby boomer” employees, and reduced employee availability in succeeding generations, to be a significant issue.

Research shows that, for a variety of reasons, lower wage workers generally have less access to voluntary flexibility than higher wage workers. But when it is available to them, flexibility can have equal or even more powerful outcomes for the lower wage population.

Afterschool programs need the support of their whole community to thrive, and businesses are always a big part of the community. These are the companies that employ the working parents whose children need a safe place to learn and grow after school.

This toolkit has been designed by Corporate Voices for Working Families to serve as a resource that will direct and inspire proactive business engagement in afterschool policies and programs at the community level and will lead to policies and community outreach that garner widespread public support.

There is and has been a significant interest and investment in after school by corporations for over a decade. The amount spent by companies interviewed totaled $136.6 million invested in after school initiatives for 2005. Over the last five years, the total investment reaches over $1 billion invested in afterschool and related youth development and parent education programs and resources.

These principles outline why a well-implemented flexibility program makes sense for the business community.

GlaxoSmithKline is a company that supports children and public education on several fronts. Internally, the company works with employees and the community to ensure that after school programs and child care are available, and it encourages employees to volunteer with schools and after school programs. Externally, the company has been a leader on K-12 education issues for 20 years, through mergers, changes in leadership and various political climates.  

Bank of America has teamed up with Year Up to create 20 apprenticeships for urban youth in Boston. The Bank of America/Year Up partnership creates new opportunities for urban young adults ages 18-24 who have completed high school or received a GED.

For nearly a decade, H.E. Butt Grocery Company(H-E-B) has been instrumental in supportingthe development of youth by exposingthem to careers in the grocery retail industryand supporting their growth and mobilitywithin the company.

Accenture worked with others in the business and nonprofit communities to found NPower NY, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the technological capacity of the non-profit community. Accenture worked with NPowerNY to use its professional expertise and innovation to create the Technology Services Corps (TSC). TSC is an innovative program that looks at an unskilled pool of young people and sees in them a solution to the nonprofit community’s technology gap.