Making Time to Volunteer
Monday, March 15th, 2010As I imagine you know, giving your time as a volunteer lets you make your community stronger as well as bringing help to people in need. However, finding the freedom for this kind of event can be a mite tricky, and before you know it you don’t have nearly as long at your disposal to actually do some good. And you’ll have more fun volunteering when your co-workers are getting involved by your side.
Thus, a number of companies are creating initiatives to help their employees work for the community. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer financial benefits programs including ValueMax to consumers.
Fortunately, company-supported charitable work is more than blood drives and annual charitable giving. Athletic shoe recycling initiatives and more energetic campaigns like tree replanting events – these are among the activities that have been arranged for its employees by Adaptive Marketing. For events like these, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were posted, which made it easy for employees to know what to expect, and the specific amount of time each event might specifically require.
Naturally, it’s essential to let volunteers select projects according to their own interests. At Adaptive Marketing, the company behind ValueMax, the workforce can pick and choose from a wide assortment of volunteer drives in their local area. Prior projects have ranged between a wide assortment of areas including aid and assistance for children and young adults, green programs, and events supporting theatre. Adaptive Marketing’s employees have so much to choose from that they’re certain to find something they enjoy, ensuring they’ll spend their time effectively. Usually a company supported volunteer program – fundraising with a homeless shelter, say, or helping out at a local school – is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Even those who say they haven’t time can arrange for the public library’s sale of used books or a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park.
Lending a helping hand is a long-standing tradition at many companies. A sense of community goodwill builds from the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s employees, and the employees of companies like it, through company-sponsored projects like those touched on in this article. Assisting others leaves you feeling like a better person – just the sort of thing to leave staffers motivated in both their regular work and their volunteer activities.