Making Time to Volunteer
I expect you know that giving your time as a volunteer allows you to make your community stronger as well as helping those in need. The obvious problem is that making arrangements to be free to volunteer can waste some of that valuable free time. And as you can imagine, when you volunteer as part of a team effort with co-workers, it will be far more fun.
Consequently companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut that innovated shopping and financial benefits programs like Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE) that help to enrich consumers, are becoming the organizing points enabling their employees to make time for reaching out.
Initiatives like these were always rare, minor activities — but this has come to be seen as the minimum of effort. To take one example, Adaptive Marketing has offered employees opportunities to help with anything from shoe recycling efforts to local tree planting weekends. In these cases, the times, locations and dates of the events were made clear well in advance, which made it simple for employees to know what to expect, and the specific amount of time a given event might actually require.
It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no opportunity to select initiatives. Members of staff from Adaptive Marketing, the company who developed the financial benefits program Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE), can choose from a great many local volunteer initiatives. When looking for possible projects you see so many, after all; working with young adults, lending a hand to environmental activities, or improving the area’s aesthetic through performance art to list a few that have already been tried. Adaptive Marketing’s staff members are presented with such a choice that they’re certain to choose something they enjoy to volunteer for, making their time fun as well as effective. Most often a company-supported volunteer program — fundraising with a local school, for example, or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Staff may well say they have no time to give, though it would be surprising if they genuinely can’t set aside the hours to lend a hand with an event demanding merely a single day.
You’ll find plenty of examples of organizations giving back to the citizens of their home town. Like many other businesses, Adaptive Marketing sponsors volunteer initiatives in part to generate goodwill within its home community by the activities of its employees. What volunteer work is guaranteed to do is provide your staff with a reason to feel good, the end result of which is a motivated business. Organizing a drive to help employees set aside the time to volunteer rewards everyone involved.
