November 30, 2009
Finding Time to Volunteer Your Time
I expect you know that giving your time as a volunteer is a way for you to make your community stronger as well as helping the poor. But how do you actually schedule this? You’ll also discover that it’s less hassle to volunteer when an event is pre-planned. Of course volunteering can be more fun when your co-workers are pitching in right along with you.
That is why companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, that innovated shopping programs like ValueMax (MVQ*VALMAX) that bring value to customers, are making themselves the points of organization enabling their employees to find the time to help. Luckily, company supported charitable work now goes beyond once-a-year donations to charity. Looking at just one company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its staff members with opportunities to help with anything from shoe recycling efforts to local tree planting events. Applying the principles of central organization individual volunteers’ tasks became events, with specific times, dates, and locations publicized in advance to help volunteers with their time management. Giving volunteers their say in what initiatives are available is essential. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you ValueMax (MVQ*VALMAX), staff can pick and choose from a diverse list of drives. Prior projects have included work in a wide variety of areas including aid and assistance for children and young adults, environmental programs, and events helping local arts and culture. Adaptive Marketing’s staff are presented with such a choice that they’re sure to choose a project they’ll enjoy getting involved in, ensuring they’ll spend their time happily as well as effectively.
Usually a company-sponsored volunteer initiative — fundraising with a local school, say, or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either for a one-off event or on a regular schedule designed to achieve a bigger goal. Staff may well contend — and truly assume — that they have no time to give, though it would be fairly surprising if they genuinely can’t free up enough resources to lend a hand with one instalment of a long term project.
We’re sure you know a number of tales of companies supporting the people who live around them. The good worksefforts of the staffers at Adaptive Marketing spread goodwill in their home town. One thing volunteer work is certain to do is leave your staff feeling good about themselves, the end result of which is a motivated corporate culture. Creating the opportunity to help employees set aside the time to volunteer creates only benefits.
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