Boost your impact
For more than two decades, ToolBox has connected social profit organisations with volunteer experts from the business world. In 2025, 149 organisations moved forward thanks to the commitment of 230 ToolBoxers. This was made possible by companies and foundations who, like you, believe in the power of collaboration between the for-profit and social-profit worlds.
What's in it for your company?
Competence-based volunteering is not just beneficial to the community: it is a strategic advantage for your own organisation:
A stronger culture of collaboration
91% of employees say that corporate volunteering programmes improve their work experience and their connection to their employer.
49% say these programmes helped them build relationships with colleagues they would not otherwise have worked with (Deloitte, Workplace Volunteerism Survey, June 2024).
A more engaged team
87% of employees factor company's volunteering opportunities into their decision to stay or to join; 49% say taking part made them proud of their employer (Deloitte, June 2024).
Among those under 40, 86% of Gen Z and 89% of millennials consider a sense of purpose central to their job satisfaction (Deloitte, Gen Z and Millennial Survey, 2024).
A practical way to acquire new skills
45% of employees want their employer to help them put their professional skills to work for social-profits. It is the second most cited expectation, after the organisation of in-person assignments (Deloitte, June 2024).
Participants in skills-based volunteering assignments report progress in creative thinking, presentation, project management and teamwork (Common Impact Survey).
Ways to collaborate
Choose the format that fits your team, your time and your ambitions.
Social accelerator
A team of eight to twenty employees spends up to a full day developing solutions for a specific challenge identified by a social profit organisation. This is fast, energising and built for team bonding.
Social challenge
A team of five to eight employees commits half a day a month for a period of four months, to support an organisation through a specific challenge, including coaching on the team's own learning process.
Every format is facilitated by a ToolBox coordinator, with support from your own internal experts (HR, Purpose team...). Motivation and genuine curiosity matter more than prior social-profit experience. Your talent brings expertise and a fresh perspective, while the organisation stays in the driver's seat.
In short: it is not just a commitment to the social-profit sector, it is an investment in your own team.
Are you ready to become a partner?
Meet our trusted partners
They make our impact possible and they see the value in it.
In 2025, we formed more than 20 new partnerships with companies and foundations, and reached 500 additional organisations through collective projects, on top of the 149 we supported directly.
Public and private organisations
Public and private foundations
Expert partners
“Helping the voices that matter be heard in public debate is at the heart of our mission at akkanto. So it is a real pleasure for us to support purpose-driven organisations, which ToolBox gave us the chance to meet! We were able to bring an outside perspective to their challenges: how they position themselves, what they have to say, and how they speak to decision-makers and civil society. This does, however, require taking a step back, something organisations don’t always have the opportunity to do when they’re focused on their day-to-day work. That’s where our perspective as communicators can prove valuable. The whole akkanto team comes away from these exchanges enriched, and impressed by the extraordinary projects these organisations are carrying out.”
« Contribuer à faire entendre les voix qui comptent dans le débat public, c’est le cœur de notre mission chez akkanto. C’est donc avec un vrai plaisir que nous accompagnons des organisations porteuses de sens, et que ToolBox nous a permis de rencontrer ! Nous avons pu poser un regard extérieur sur leurs enjeux : comment elles se positionnent, ce qu’elles ont à dire, comment elles parlent aux décideurs et aux acteurs de la société civile. Cette démarche nécessite toutefois de prendre un peu de recul, ce que les associations n’ont pas toujours l’occasion de faire quand elles sont concentrées sur leur travail quotidien. C’est là que notre regard de communicants peut être utile. Toute l’équipe d’akkanto ressort grandie de ces échanges et impressionnée par les extraordinaires projets qui sont menés. »
“Mee helpen zorgen dat de stemmen die ertoe doen gehoord worden in het publieke debat: dat is de kern van onze missie bij akkanto. Het is dan ook een echt plezier om zinvolle organisaties te begeleiden, die we dankzij ToolBox hebben leren kennen! We konden met een blik van buitenaf naar hun uitdagingen kijken: hoe ze zich positioneren, wat ze te vertellen hebben, hoe ze communiceren met beleidsmakers en met het middenveld. Dat vraagt wel dat je even een stap terugzet, en daar hebben vzw’s niet altijd de ruimte voor wanneer ze opgaan in hun dagelijkse werking. Net daar komt onze blik als communicatiespecialisten goed van pas. Het hele akkanto-team komt verrijkt uit deze uitwisselingen, en onder de indruk van de bijzondere projecten die ze realiseren.”