How Small Businesses Can Give Back to Their Local Community

HOW SMALL BUSINESSES CAN

Give Back to Their Local Community

MICHAEL ZETSER

How Small Businesses Can Give Back to Their Local Community There are many ways that small businesses can benefit their local communities, without needing to put a strain on their finances.

Ways to Help A business could begin an initiative where it makes clients aware that it will donate a set figure to charity for every referral of its services that it makes. Alternatively, the business could donate a part of its income to a selected cause on a regular basis.

Alternatively, a business could consider having a set time every

week when all employees engage in volunteering activities, or offer pro bono services for people in need.

Examples of Businesses Giving Back to Communities During the pandemic, the business TwentyTables redirected its resources to serve thousands of meals to frontline healthcare.

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The Massachusetts company Steele Canvas Basket switched from manufacturing canvas and steel storage carts to fabric masks to help its community cope with the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the Massachusetts company Steele Canvas Basket switched from manufacturing canvas and steel storage carts to fabric masks to help its community cope with the pandemic. As well as helping to keep local residents safe, this change of focus meant that the company could avoid laying off employees.

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