As I expect you know, donating your time as a volunteer is a way for you to make your community stronger as well as helping the poor. But how much time does it take to plan? You’ll discover that it’s easier to get involved when a volunteer event is pre-planned.
This is a call, then, for other companies to look to the example of far-sighted firms like Connecticut’s Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to financial and shopping benefits programs including BusinessMax created to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity to give its employees the time to give back to the community. If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, perhaps an annual donation drive, but that’s simply no longer true. The staff of Adaptive Marketing have been provided with opportunities to get involved in a full range of community initiatives. When Adaptive Marketing began central organization individual volunteers’ tasks developed into larger events, with specific locations, times and dates posted in advance to make time management easy for those signing up. Making sure volunteers have their say in what initiatives are available is essential. Employees of Adaptive Marketing choose from among a great many local volunteer initiatives. Previous and current projects have ranged between areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, green projects, and events cultivating the area’s artistic projects. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers have the chance to use their time in meaningful, important ways and relish their time volunteering.
A regular addition to their schedule or a single big event — this is how a business typically arranges volunteer initiatives like these, perhaps at a nearby homeless shelter or one of the local schools. Employees may well claim — and even be convinced— that they don’t have any free time, though it would be rather surprising if they honestly cannot free up enough resources to help at one instalment of a more involved project.
We’re sure that by now you know a number of tales of companies giving back to the citizens of their home town. The activities of those who work at business enterprises like Adaptive Marketing create valuable good feeling in their hometown. One thing volunteer work is sure to do is provide your employees with a reason to feel good, the end result of which is a motivated company.
