Lesikar's Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World 13th Edition by Kathryn Rentz,Paula Lentz

Exercise 1

As the HR director at Hader Building Supply, you couldn't be happier with how your efforts to establish an employee-volunteer program have worked out. Thanks to the employees' donations of their time and expertise to the Hader Helps program, the community where you live has been improved, and the company has gained a more positive public profile. But there are still some bumps in the road, and today you're dealing with one of them.
Part of the program you set up is a database of company-approved schools, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations for which employees may volunteer. In order to get approved time off work for their contributions, employees must choose one of these organizations. There are over 30 organizations on the list, and more are added each month as employees propose new causes for the company to support.
Beth Atkinson, one of the office staff, has just sent you an email requesting that the local chapter of the Center for Family Values be approved as one of Hader's nonprofit partners. You check out the organization's website, and what you suspected is confirmed: The organization supports political action that is pro-life and opposed to same-sex unions. And even though the center isn't affiliated with any particular denomination, it has strong ties with Christian churches, as its Pastors for Family Values webpage indicates.
You simply cannot grant Beth's request. The guidelines for proposing an addition to the list of supported organizations state that the organization can have no religious or political affiliations. While the Center for Family Values is not an official political organization, it is an advocacy group with an explicit political agenda, which the website encourages visitors to support through volunteering, donating, voting, and writing legislators.
You worked very hard to get the employees behind the new volunteer program, and you don't want Beth to start any negative talk about it. Refuse her request in such a way that you do not lose her support for the program.