June 7, 2010

Your Company and the Community: Volunteer Work

Filed under: Pressure Groups, Social Web, Your Business @ 2:59 pm

The togetherness that volunteers experience can strengthen the local community spirit, and naturally it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of assisting their local needy. But where do you find the time to donate your time? You’ll also discover that it’s less hassle to get involved when someone else has organized the event. And you’ll have more fun volunteering when your colleagues are pitching in by your side. For this reason companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut whose shopping and financial benefits programs, like Shopping Essentials, help to enrich consumers, are stepping up to become organizing points for volunteer activities and helping their employees find the time to reach out.

Luckily, company supported charitable activity is more than blood drives and annual collections. Shoe recycling initiatives and more active work like tree replanting events — these and other activities have been organized by Adaptive Marketing for its employees. Using central organization individual volunteers’ tasks blossomed into events, with specific dates, locations and times made public in advance to make time management easy for volunteers.

Giving volunteers a say in which initiatives the company supports is important. Employees of Adaptive Marketing can select from a selection of local volunteer events. These may include promoting green initiatives et cetera. This gives Adaptive Marketing volunteers the chance to use their time as efficiently as possible and have fun getting involved.

Usually a company-sponsored volunteer initiative — getting involved with a homeless shelter or assisting at a local school — is done either as a one-off event or on a regular schedule to accomplish a bigger goal. What this means is if you can only find some hours to help out at the public library’s sale of used books, there’s still a chance to contribute.

You’ll find plenty of tales of firms finding ways to help the people who live nearby. The good worksefforts of the employees at Adaptive Marketing create valuable goodwill around their home base. The truth is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is the certainty that you’ve done something good and worthwhile — an upbeat feeling that leaves not just the employee but the whole business in a better mood. Encouraging your staffers to find the time to volunteer can be its own reward.

March 21, 2010

Some Thoughts about Volunteers from within the Workplace

Filed under: Pressure Groups @ 10:38 am

Volunteering – building a community bond, and assisting your local needy. But finding the freedom for this kind of event isn’t always as straightforward as you would want, and let’s not forget that’s free time better used in actually volunteering. Moreover, when volunteering becomes a team effort with co-workers, it will be more enjoyable. Accordingly, firms have begun making themselves into initiatives helping their employees to support the community through volunteer activities. One of the more significant examples is Adaptive Marketing LLC who also offer shopping and financial benefits programs including Leisure Exclusives to consumers. Initiatives like these used to be annual, limited occasions – but nowadays that can be seen as just the beginning. Looking at a specific company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its employees with opportunities to help with anything from running shoe recycling campaigns to tree planting days. With the relevant information – time, date, location, type of event, et cetera – announced it has become very simple for staff members to work out the exact amount of time they could give and how they’d be using it.

It’s essential to let volunteers support projects in line with their own preferences. Employees of Adaptive Marketing select from among a number of activities. Once you start looking for things to do you see so many, after all; working with young adults, helping with green programs, or supporting the community through performance art among others. A happy volunteer is an effective volunteer, so by providing so many programs Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their staff members will make progress on all the initiatives. If firms urge staff to get involved at homeless shelters or local schools, it is commonly during an individual event or a regularly scheduled job. Even employees who say they haven’t the time can arrange a Saturday morning park clean-up or the public library’s sale of used books. It has always been a regular practice for business firms to assist the community in which they’re based. The good worksefforts of the employees at businesses such as Adaptive Marketing create valuable goodwill in their hometown. Helping around your hometown leaves you feeling much better about yourself – which is just the sort of feeling to motivate staffers in both their daily work and their volunteer activities. Promoting volunteering among your employees becomes its own reward.

December 7, 2009

Your Firm and the Community: Volunteer Work

Filed under: Pressure Groups @ 2:19 pm

Volunteering — a path to a better community, and assisting the local needy. As they say, charity begins at home. Traditionally, however, adjusting your workload so that you’re free to volunteer is liable to to consume some of that valuable free time. Let’s not forget that you’ll have more fun volunteering with your co-workers getting involved by your side! By way of addressing this problem, some socially-conscious firms are integrating organizing points to help their employees support the community. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer shopping programs like SavingsAce (MVQ*SAVEACE) to consumers. Initiatives like these used to be annual events — but nowadays that can be seen as just the beginning. Shoe recycling programs and more energetic efforts like tree-planting days — these and other activities have been scheduled by Adaptive Marketing for its workforce. With all pertinent information — location, time, date, type of event, et cetera — clearly displayed it is a simple matter for employees to settle how much time they’d be giving and what they’d be doing as they did so. It is essential to let volunteers support projects that fit their interests. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, the developers of the program SavingsAce (MVQ*SAVEACE), offer their staff members a diverse list of local activities. There’s so much to be done, after all; working with young adults, helping with green activities, or supporting local theater to name just a few. This provides Adaptive Marketing volunteers with the opportunity to explore useful avenues in volunteer work and love getting involved. Typically a company sponsored charity initiative — getting involved with a homeless shelter, for example, or assisting at a local school — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Even those who claim they haven’t the time can arrange for a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park or the public library’s sale of used books.

It has always been a fairly common practice for firms to assist the people living around their premises. The activities of the staffers at Adaptive Marketing and businesses like it create valuable good feeling throughout the community. Helping around your home town leaves you feeling like a better person — exactly what you need to motivate your workforce in both their daily work and their volunteer activities, too.

February 12, 2009

Operation Family Fund

Filed under: Assistance, Content Is King, Pressure Groups @ 5:35 pm

Operation Family Fund is a private, nonprofit organization that aids sailors, soldiers, airmen, and their families. Though it receives support from private corporations and individuals, Operation Family Fund does not receive financial aid from the government.

Operation Family Fund has declared that their objective is “to assist the injured and families of those who have been injured or killed as part of the Global War on Terrorism, whether domestic or abroad, military or civilian, with financial grants for transitioning to their new circumstances and achieving financial self-sufficiency.”

Operation Family Fund is acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Defense. The organization has helped more than 240 military personnel and their relatives. They have also raised more than $1.4 million in donations from the American citizenry. One of their donors is Dr. Laura Schlessinger who is an active supporter of the Fund. Schlessinger, who was once a professional counselor, is a New York Times Bestselling Author and the host of the popular The Dr. Laura Program, which is being broadcast throughout America through Premiere Radio Networks. In her widely-listened radio show she offers advice to callers using a frank and blunt approach that has become the show’s trademark.

Recently, Dr. Laura Schlessinger set up a Necklace Collection Benefit and Birthday Party. The Secretary England and Operation Family fund awarded Schlessinger an OSD award for her fundraising endeavors. Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s efforts bolstered Operation Family Fund’s financial resources by over $1 million.