Community Shares of Colorado
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

​Community Shares of Colorado is a locally grown community giving fund. We support Colorado employers in their efforts to increase community engagement by connecting companies, employees, and local nonprofits through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Services. 
Your social responsibility engagement strategy needs to reflect your company’s culture and employees need to see their interests reflected in your engagement priorities. We help you set your program up for success. 

​Menu of Services

Are you ready to take your community investment and employee engagement to the next level? We will help your company hone your vision and values to build a civic engagement, philanthropy, and volunteerism program to maximize community impact.
  • Workplace giving program management
  • Matching funds program administration
  • Volunteer opportunity facilitation
  • Employee volunteer hours matching gifts program administration
  • Communications support employee community engagement activities 
  • Nonprofit vetting for matching and corporate donations 
  • Event planning and support for community engagement program  
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Spark the Change Colorado and Community Shares of Colorado are pleased to share their partnership: CSR Solutions of Colorado. We believe that workplaces can DO BETTER BY DOING GOOD.  We offer a robust suite of cost-effective products and services, making it easy for workplaces large and small to build and grow their community strategies through volunteer engagement, philanthropic impact and community reputation.

Let us help you create your company’s corporate social responsibility strategy and road map.
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​The Civic 50 Colorado is a collaboration of Community Shares of Colorado, Spark The Change Colorado, and Points of Light, which develops a shared language and benchmarking data for Colorado corporate social responsibility programs. The assessment measures performance on four dimensions -  investment, integration, institutionalization, and impact - of  community engagement in Colorado companies. The Civic 50 Colorado honors the most community-minded companies based on the weighted scores of the assessment.

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The Civic 50 Colorado
2020 Report Key Metrics 


Colorado Civic 50 Honorees
  • Contributed over $50 million in monetary and in-kind donations to Colorado charitable causes.
  • Contributed over 275,000 volunteer hours toward COVID-related assistance, social-justice efforts and other causes.
  • Involved 5 out every 10 employees in volunteer opportunities supporting external nonprofit organizations and 4 out of 10 in employee resource groups (ERGs) and other internal opportunities to support societal issues (on average).
  • Over two-thirds of Civic 50 Colorado honorees offered workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
  • Over two-thirds offered paid time off to volunteer.
  • Almost two-thirds established department community engagement goals.
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Workplace Giving

Workplace giving has been a key element of corporate philanthropy for more than a century.  It is a low-cost and efficient way to connect your company and staff to local nonprofit organizations.  Offering a giving campaign allows employees to make a charitable gift via ongoing paycheck contributions.

Why Paycheck Contributions?
Spreading out your donation over the course of a year allows smaller, more manageable amounts to be taken out of your paycheck, allowing people to give more overall.  Also, the contribution is deducted automatically from each paycheck which exponentially increases the likelihood of the pledge being fulfilled.  It is an easy and convenient way for your staff to give to the charities and causes they care about most.

  • 98% of employees at companies offering workplace giving campaigns want the program continued.
  • 79% of Millennials entering the workforce want to work for a company that cares about how it impacts and contributes to society.
  • Studies show that giving through payroll contributions is 300% more effective than simply writing a check.
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Community Shares of Colorado
789 Sherman Street Suite 230
Denver, Colorado 80203
303.861.7507 |
cshares@cshares.org
Proud Member of Colorado Funders for Inclusiveness and Equity
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  • About
    • Mission and History
    • Meet the Staff
    • Board of Directors
    • Values & Commitment >
      • Roe V Wade Open Letter
      • Racial Justice
      • Club Q Statement
      • Financial Clarity
      • Privacy Policy
    • Job Opportunities
    • Contact Us
    • Supporters
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Start a CSR Program
    • Virtual Nonprofit Fairs
    • CSR Solutions of Colorado
    • Philanthropy Consulting
  • Our Nonprofits
    • About Our Members
    • Apply for Membership
    • Member Nonprofit Highlights
  • Nonprofit Leadership
    • Executive Leadership Institute
  • Ways to Give
    • Donate
  • Member Portal
    • Member Resources
    • Presentation Archive
    • Member Alerts
    • Campaign Results
    • Partner Worksites
  • Resources
    • COVID-19 Support and Resources
    • Annual Reports and Publications
    • Media
    • Videos
    • Announcements
  • Events
    • 2022 Voices of Equity Summer Celebration
    • 35th Anniversary
  • Member Impact Stories