Ways of Volunteering Your Time
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Volunteering — a path to a stronger community, and assisting the poor in the vicinity. The obvious problem is that freeing up the time to volunteer is liable to to waste time that could be put to better use. Let’s not forget that volunteering is more fun with your friends from work getting involved by your side. This is a call for other companies to look to the example of firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as programs like Privacy Matters 1-2-3 (MVQ*PRIVACYM) intended for the benefit of consumers, Adaptive Marketing takes on the organizational duties so that its employees have more time to help the local community. If you think about company supported charitable effort, you probably think of blood drives, maybe a Christmas call for donations, but that’s simply no longer true. Tennis shoe recycling programs and more active work like tree planting events — these and others are among the activities that have been made possible for its staff by Adaptive Marketing. In these cases, the locations, dates and times that had been arranged were published well in advance, ensuring that staff knew what to expect, and how much time each event might really require.
Giving volunteers their say in which activities the company supports is also important. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you Privacy Matters 1-2-3 (MVQ*PRIVACYM), the workforce are given the chance to choose from a wide variety of volunteer programs in the local area. Once you start looking for things to do you see so many, after all; getting involved in the education of young adults, assisting with environmental activities, or supporting the community through performance art among others. A happy volunteer is an effective volunteer, so by offering so many projects Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their employees will make progress on all the initiatives.
A big one-off event or a regularly scheduled day — this is how a company usually arranges this kind of volunteer initiative, often at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. There will be those who say they haven’t time, but even they can squeeze in a Saturday morning park clean-up. Extending a helping hand is a practice with a long history at many companies. Adaptive Marketing like many other firms supports volunteer projects to help others and to generate goodwill within its home community as a result of the charity work performed by its staffers. Helping others makes you feel like a better person — just the sort of feeling to motivate your workforce in both their regular work and their volunteer activities. It’s our hope that by now the benefits for everyone involved of a company sponsored volunteer initiative are are self-evident.