Earlier this week,, Starbucks announced that it will begin to compensate its employees for the act of volunteerism.
With the help of Points of Light, a nonprofit volunteering group, Starbucks picked 36 Starbucks Service Fellows in 13 cities for the pilot program.
For six months, the fellows will spend at least 20 hours per week working for Starbucks, and up to 20 hours per week at a local organization.
The Points of Light Foundation was created in 1990 as a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. to promote the spirit of volunteerism described by U.S. President George H. W. Bush in his 1989 inaugural address, “I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.”
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