Employee Volunteering Programs: Why Your Team Should Spend a Day With MYKSS
Your team spends 250+ days a year working for your business. One day spent working for their community could change how they show up for the other 249.
Employee volunteering is no longer just a feel-good footnote in a CSR report. For forward-thinking companies in Kanpur, it has become one of the most effective — and underused — tools for building stronger teams, more engaged employees, and a brand that the community genuinely respects.
At Maa Yog Kripa Seva Samiti (MYKSS), we’ve partnered with individuals and organisations across the region who want their people to do more than just work. Here’s why an employee volunteering program with MYKSS could be one of the best decisions your company makes this year.
What Is an Employee Volunteering Program?
An employee volunteering program (EVP) is a structured initiative where a company gives its employees dedicated time — usually during work hours — to volunteer for a social cause. This could be a single team day out, a recurring monthly engagement, or a skills-based collaboration where employees contribute professional expertise to an NGO’s work.
Unlike a one-off donation, an EVP creates direct, human-level connection between your team and the community you operate in. And unlike most team-building exercises, it leaves something real behind.
Why It Matters for Your Business
Let’s be direct: the business case for employee volunteering is strong. Companies that run structured EVPs consistently report improvements across four key areas:
Employee Engagement
Employees who volunteer through their company report higher job satisfaction, stronger loyalty, and a deeper sense of purpose in their daily work.
Team Cohesion
Working together outside the office — toward a shared goal that has nothing to do with targets — builds genuine bonds between colleagues.
Brand Reputation
A company seen actively contributing to its community earns trust — among customers, future employees, and the public alike.
CSR Compliance
For companies with CSR obligations under the Companies Act, employee volunteering hours and partnerships with registered NGOs like MYKSS can contribute toward your annual CSR reporting.
What Your Team Would Actually Do
A day with MYKSS isn’t a passive experience. Your team would be actively involved — hands-on, on the ground, with real children and real outcomes. Here are the kinds of activities we can structure for a corporate volunteering day:
Teaching & Tutoring
Help children with literacy, numeracy, and general awareness in a guided classroom setting.
Creative Workshops
Lead art, craft, or festival-themed sessions that build confidence and creative thinking.
Skills Sharing
Share professional or personal skills — communication, design, craft, cooking — in short workshop formats.
Event & Drive Support
Help organise and run welfare events — from summer camps to blanket distribution drives.
Documentation & Storytelling
Use your team’s communication or design skills to help us capture and share our impact stories.
Group Team Day
A fully customised full-day experience for your team — structured around your size, schedule, and interests.
Want to plan a volunteering day for your team?
Talk to Us →Who Should Consider This?
Employee volunteering programs work for organisations of all sizes. You don’t need a large CSR budget or a dedicated HR team to make it happen. If any of the following describes your organisation, a day with MYKSS is worth exploring:
- Companies with 10–500+ employees looking for meaningful team-building alternatives
- Businesses with annual CSR obligations under the Companies Act seeking documented NGO partnerships
- Startups and SMEs in Kanpur wanting to build community goodwill and local brand presence
- Educational institutions looking to offer students structured social service exposure
- HR and people teams searching for engagement initiatives that go beyond pizza parties
How to Set It Up: Step by Step
We’ve made the process as simple as possible. Here’s how a typical corporate volunteering engagement with MYKSS works:
- Reach out to us Contact us through our Contact page with a brief note about your company, your team size, and what you’re hoping to achieve.
- We design the day together Based on your team’s size, schedule, and interests, we’ll co-create an activity plan that’s engaging, purposeful, and logistically smooth.
- Your team shows up We handle the on-ground coordination. Your team just needs to arrive ready to engage — we take care of the rest.
- We document the impact We’ll help you capture the day through photos, stories, and participation records — useful for internal communication, social media, and CSR reporting.
- We stay connected One day often leads to an ongoing relationship. Many of our corporate partners return regularly — and some employees come back on their own as individual volunteers.
What Makes MYKSS the Right Partner?
- Registered NGO — formally documented, accountable, and compliant for CSR purposes
- On-the-ground operations — your team works directly with children, not through layers of administration
- Flexible engagement — from a single afternoon to a year-long partnership, we work around your calendar
- Local to Kanpur — your team gives back to the very community your business operates in
- Meaningful, not performative — every activity is designed to create real value for the children and families we serve
Give Your Team a Day That Actually Means Something
It takes one conversation to get started. Reach out and let’s build something meaningful together — for your team and for the children of Kanpur.
The children we work with don’t need spectators — they need people willing to show up. Your team could be exactly that. And in showing up for them, you might be surprised by what your team discovers about itself.