Charity and Employee Engagement

At least two thirds of your life, emotions are tied to your job. Its important to like your company, respect your company. HR departments are working on "employee engagement" activities all the time. But Charity/ CSR is a fabulous way to engage employees.
We at Emcure, love planning these activities and love celebrating these events
1) Holi - we go to Navshitij, a home for intellectually disabled friends and play holi with them, they look forward to our visits every year with so much joy !
2) Ganesh festival - this is my favourite, our employees go to the ghats and request people not to throw the decorations and idols in the river, they help them put all this in the big earthen tanks and pots on the river banks. They help eco exist collect all the flowers and give to jail women who make natural colours. All Emcureans look forward to being part of the festivities, eating and bonding, wearing their beautiful emcure Tshirts, what memories !
3) Blood donation drive - I for one cannot see the sight of blood and we have over 300 Emcureans who donate pints of blood effortlessly and selflessly every year. It is so easy to give money, tough to give time and toughest to give a piece of yourself and yet so many do it so selflessly !
4) Clothes collection drive - every year we collect over 3000 clothes. Being a finance professional,  I am all about least investment and high ROI/ returns, if one poster on notice boards and few boxes keep for couple days at canteens can achieve this, why don't more companies do this ?
5) Diwali fair - we invite 2 ngos to display items made by their residents, diyas, paper bags, lanterns, candles, chocolates, snacks and all our employees get in the "giving" spirit of Diwali and buy generously
6) Drawing competition - we organise a drawing competition at Gurukul orphanage where our employees kids participate along with the orphans and the 12 best drawings get published in our CSR calendar that sits proudly on everybodys desk
In addition, we plant trees and run marathons (or at least a part of it!!) for good causes.
These we have been doing religiously for the last 5 years. We post this in our quarterly magazine that our employees can take home and share the pride with their families too.
What do your companies do that we can replicate ? any other fun activiies where we can bond as co - workers and do good at the same time ? we would love to learn from other companies and figure out what other activities can be part of our Emcure CSR- employee engagement  program, lets help each other!

it amazes me how often Charity is deemed as purely "selfless" when it actually you get so much more than what you give  - parenting tool, employee engagement - we always always get so much more than we give