At Percent Pledge, we’re excited to introduce our latest innovation — Feed Your Impact. This feature is a simple, new way for companies to make a positive social impact (without changing a thing).
Now, every hour your employees spend volunteering can automatically fund a meal for someone facing hunger.
With Feed Your Impact, companies can strengthen their employee engagement programs, boost volunteer time off (VTO) participation, and make an even bigger difference in their communities.
Why We Built Feed Your Impact
Employee volunteerism is one of the most meaningful parts of any company’s employee engagement programs. It brings people together, creates shared purpose, and drives belonging — key pillars of every great DEIB strategy.
But today, food insecurity is rising across the U.S., especially after recent cuts to SNAP benefits. That’s where Feed Your Impact comes in. We wanted to help companies and employees make a difference where it’s needed most.
That’s how Feed Your Impact was born.
This new feature allows your company to automatically convert every volunteer hour logged on the Percent Pledge platform into a meal donated through our partner, Vivery Community.
It’s a timely, modern way to connect the power of corporate volunteering to one of today’s most urgent challenges.
It’s a new take on a familiar idea — “Dollars for Doers” — but redesigned for today’s world.
How Feed Your Impact Works
Feed Your Impact is seamlessly integrated into the Percent Pledge Volunteering Platform — no extra tools, forms, or admin required.
Here’s how it works:
- Employees volunteer: Employees log volunteer hours on Percent Pledge.
- You donate meals: Automatically donate a meal for every hour. Each meal is a $3.60 donation. You set your budget.
- You feed your impact: You already encourage employees to volunteer. Now that time feeds families too — right when food insecurity is surging. It’s the easiest way to multiply your impact without changing a thing.
It’s a “set it and see the impact” experience — simple for companies, meaningful for employees, and measurable for CSR leaders.
A Modern Take on “Dollars for Doers”
The concept of Dollars for Doers — rewarding employees’ volunteer time with charitable donations — has been around for decades.
Feed Your Impact is Dollars for Doers made simple — modernized for companies that want to make every action count:
- Simple: Each meal donation goes directly toward food programs that deliver nutritious meals through local food banks nationwide.
- Automated: Your company doesn’t need to track or manage reimbursements. Once the feature is on, each volunteer hour automatically converts into a $3.60 donation (the cost of a meal) through Vivery Community.
- Fully customizable: Set a start and end date, choose your total donation cap, and make it fit your company’s size and budget.
In other words, Feed Your Impact brings the Dollars for Doers concept into the era of hybrid work, virtual volunteering, and need to create connection.
The Evolution from “Grow Your Impact” to Now
Feed Your Impact is the next evolution of our popular Grow Your Impact feature, which plants real trees for volunteer hours logged on our platform.
That feature helped tens of thousands of employees see their impact in a new way — connecting time spent volunteering to tangible outcomes for the planet.
Grow Your Impact helped companies make environmental sustainability tangible. Feed Your Impact applies that same model to social impact — connecting every volunteer hour to a meal for someone facing hunger.
Together, these features show how modern CSR programs can connect every act of service — whether in-person or through virtual volunteer opportunities — to measurable, human results.
Proven to Increase Logging of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Hours
Feed Your Impact also makes it easier to inspire employees to use their Volunteer Time Off (VTO) benefits.
When every volunteer hour logged directly funds a meal, employees see the added purpose behind their service — and participation increases.
Learn more about building an effective VTO policy with these guides:
- The Comprehensive Guide to Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Benefits
- Everything You Need to Know About VTO (Volunteer Time Off)
By connecting your VTO policy to Feed Your Impact, you can make volunteering one of your most engaging and rewarding employee benefits.
Why This Tool Boosts Employee Engagement and Participation
Corporate volunteering isn’t just good for the community — it’s one of the most effective employee engagement strategies a company can invest in.
Feed Your Impact creates a direct link between volunteering and measurable results — a key driver of employee motivation. It makes volunteering more tangible, more rewarding, and easier to track — helping teams feel connected to their company’s mission, no matter where they work.
When employees see their volunteer hours feeding families, participation naturally increases. It also creates other positive butterfly effects:
- Greater VTO usage
- Higher volunteer engagement
- Stronger company culture and DEIB outcomes
By linking action to impact, employees feel their contributions matter — reinforcing your broader employee engagement strategy.
And with full integration into Percent Pledge’s volunteering platform, your Social Impact or HR team can easily measure outcomes, report to leadership, and share inspiring stories of impact.
Supporting Your CSR and ESG Strategy
Feed Your Impact doesn’t just make giving easier; it makes impact reporting clearer.
Every meal donated is tracked and measurable, allowing CSR and HR leaders to include real, quantifiable data in ESG and social impact reporting.
This visibility strengthens your company’s brand reputation, enhances transparency, and demonstrates leadership in community impact.
Learn more about how Percent Pledge helps companies achieve measurable impact through our Volunteering Platform.
Built for Today’s Workforce
Feed Your Impact is designed for how people work — and give back — today.
Whether your team is in-office, hybrid, or fully remote, this feature supports:
- In-person volunteering with local nonprofits
- Virtual volunteer opportunities and skill-based projects
- Remote volunteer opportunities across time zones and causes
Every hour counts, and every hour helps feed a family.
Built for Every Company Size
Whether your company has 50 employees or 5,000, Feed Your Impact makes scaling impact effortless.
You can turn it on for a specific campaign — like your company’s holiday giving season — or run it year-round to keep your community impact consistent.
No extra admin work. No complicated setup. Just real meals for real people.
Join the Fight Against Hunger
Feed Your Impact makes it easy for companies to join the fight against food insecurity — together with their employees.
It’s simple, measurable, and deeply needed right now.
If your company already encourages volunteering, this feature multiplies that impact without changing a thing.
Learn more about activating Feed Your Impact for your company by reaching out to your Percent Pledge Social Impact Manager or contacting our team.
Together, we can make every volunteer hour count — for good.
Built by Percent Pledge.
In Partnership With Vivery Community — equalizing food access for everyone.
