Companies Send Executives to Work at Charities

A growing number of companies are giving their employees the chance to work at nonprofit organizations, sometimes for as long as three years, reports Forbes.

Starbucks, Accenture, Pfizer, and Toyota Motor are among the corporations that send their executives to work with charities in order to provide management expertise as well as gather information on how a company’s donations are being spent. The companies generally pay the salaries of the employees.

Not everyone is pleased by the trend, however. Steven May, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that companies’ business concerns could overpower their altruism. But Sharon Darling, founder of the National Center for Family Literacy, says she hasn’t seen such pressures in her work with two executives from Toyota.