Though there was already plenty for Allison Hope Kahn to like about working at Mastercard, it was the afternoon she and her colleagues spent volunteering at a nature preserve that really won her over.
“It was this beautiful fall day, and my employer was paying us to be outside in the foliage, helping to build birdhouses and put down mulch,” Kahn, a marketing and communications professional, tells Fortune. She’s since moved to another company, but that experience and others like it, including a day spent mentoring at a local school, made a deep and lasting impression.
