Setting aside the Time to Volunteer
3 February 2010We all know that volunteering is a great way to strengthen community bonds and at the same time assist the poor. The obvious problem is that arranging to be free to volunteer often actually wastes very time that could really be put to much better use. Keep in mind that you’ll have more fun volunteering with your co-workers pitching in by your side! For this reason companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, that developed financial and shopping benefits programs including Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE), have stepped up to become the organizing points enabling their employees to find the time to pitch in.
When you think about company supported charitable effort, you probably think of blood drives, maybe an annual call for donations, nothing more, but this is simply not true in today’s world. For example, Adaptive Marketing has provided its staff with an opportunity to help with anything from athletic shoe recycling campaigns to local tree replanting days. With all relevant information - location, time, date, specifics of event, et cetera - posted in advance it is a simple matter for staff to work out the specific amount of time they could give and what they’d be doing as they did so.
The volunteers will want a opportunity to select initiatives. Staffers from Adaptive Marketing can select from a number of local events. Once you start looking for possible projects you see so many; working with children, lending a hand to green programs, or supporting the community through arts and culture to name but a few. Often, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more gets done, so through offering such a variety of activities Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their members of staff will make progress on as many as possible. Usually when companies ask their staff to think about volunteering at schools, it tends to be to help with an individual event or a regularly scheduled, perhaps weekly or monthly job. Staff may well say they don’t have any free time, though one would be surprised if they genuinely can’t set aside the resources to help at some smaller one-day event. Business history is full of examples of organizations giving back to the people who live nearby. A sense of community goodwill is generated by the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s employees, and the employees of companies like it, over the course of company-supported programs like the ones discussed in this article. The real bonus is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is a sense of generosity and accomplishment - an upbeat feeling that leaves not just the worker but the whole workforce feeling better. Putting the opportunities out there to help employees to volunteer is nothing but positive.
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