Your Business and the Community – Improving Your Standing with Volunteer Work
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010The volunteers’ sense of companionship can strengthen the local community spirit, and as you’d expect it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of helping those incapable of supporting themselves. But how do you schedule this? You’ll discover that it’s simpler to volunteer when an event is pre-planned. And volunteering is more fun with your colleagues getting involved right along with you.
This is a call for companies to take a cue from firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to shopping and financial benefits programs such as SavingsAce designed for the benefit of consumers, Adaptive Marketing takes on the organizational necessities so that its employees have more time to help the community.
If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of giving blood, perhaps an annual call for donations, nothing more, but that’s simply no longer true. Athletic shoe recycling initiatives and more active work like tree planting days – these and other activities have been arranged for its staff by Adaptive Marketing. For events like these, the times, locations and dates of the events were announced, ensuring that staff knew what to expect, and how much time each event might actually require. There should always be a choice between activities. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you SavingsAce, members of staff are presented with the chance to choose from a wide variety of programs. Volunteers may find themselves community projects in arts and culture, working with children and young adults, promoting environmental initiatives and so on. Adaptive Marketing’s staff members have so much to choose from that they’re certain to find something they enjoy to volunteer for, making their time enjoyable as well as useful.
A one-off event or a regular addition to their schedule – this is how a business tends to organize this kind of volunteer initiative, perhaps at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. Members of staff may well say – and really assume – that they have no time to give, but usually even they can often free up the hours to lend a hand with an event lasting just a single day. Turning their profit-making skills to help the community around them is a practice with a long pedigree at many businesses. The activities of the staff at business enterprises like Adaptive Marketing create good feeling around their home base. Helping around your home town makes you feel like a better person – just the sort of thing to motivate staff members in both their daily work and their volunteer activities. Organizing a drive to help employees to volunteer creates only benefits.