Your Business and the Community: Volunteer Work
June 16th, 2010I expect you know that volunteering is a great way to strengthen community bonds as well as helping the needy. Of course, organizing your schedule so that you’re free to volunteer often wastes time that could be put to better use elsewhere. It hardly requires mention, if volunteering becomes a group effort with co-workers, it’s likely to be far more fun. For this reason companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a Connecticut-based firm whose shopping and financial benefits programs, such as Privacy Matters 1-2-3, help to enrich consumers, are becoming organizing points for volunteer activities and helping employees find the time to reach out. Company-supported volunteer work is more than blood drives and annual charitable giving. The staff of Adaptive Marketing are frequently provided with opportunities to participate in community initiatives with more and less effort required. In cases like these, the dates, times and locations of the events were posted, which made it simple for employees to know what to expect, and how much time it might take precisely.
Making sure volunteers have their say in which drives the company sponsors is essential. Staff from Adaptive Marketing choose from among many programs. There’s so much to be done; working with children, lending a hand to environmental activities, or supporting local arts and culture to list just a few that have already been tried. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers are presented with the opportunity to find the most effective way to work and love their time volunteering.
Most often a company-supported charity project — getting involved with a local school or assisting at a homeless shelter — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Members of staff may well say they have no time to give, but even they can often free up the resources to help at some smaller one-day event.
You’ll find plenty of tales of firms supporting the people who live nearby. Goodwill comes from the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s staff over the course of these company supported initiatives. Helping others leaves you feeling like a better person — just the sort of thing to motivate your workforce both in their regular work and their volunteer activities, too. By now, we think, the positives of a company-supported volunteer initiative for everyone involved are should be self-evident.