My Guide to Volunteering Your Time
Volunteering — coming together as a community, and assisting the poor in the vicinity. As they say, charity begins at home. Yet, scheduling this kind of event is often a mite difficult, and arranging what you want to do will eat up free time that could be used in actually volunteering. And don’t you agree that if you had your co-workers working alongside you, you’d all have a better time while volunteering? Companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut whose financial benefits programs, like Passport to Fun (MVQ*PASSPRT2FUN), bring value to customers, are stepping up to become the points of organization enabling their employees to make time for reaching out.
Company-supported volunteering is more than once-a-year collections for charity. Looking at just one company, Adaptive Marketing has offered staff the opportunity to help with anything from shoe recycling campaigns to tree replanting days. For these events, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were made clear well in advance, making it convenient for staff to know what to expect, and the precise amount of time each event might actually require. It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no opportunity to select initiatives. Employees of Adaptive Marketing, the firm who developed the program Passport to Fun (MVQ*PASSPRT2FUN), can select from a selection of drives. Previous and current projects have seen improvements made in areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, environmental awareness activities, and events related to arts and culture. Adaptive Marketing’s employees are presented with such a choice that they’re sure to find a project they’ll enjoy participating in, making their time fun as well as useful. Typically, when firms encourage employees help at a nearby homeless shelter, it tends to be for an individual event or a regular, perhaps weekly or monthly project. Employees may well say they don’t have the free time, though one would be surprised if they seriously cannot find enough resources to help at some smaller one-day event.
Lending a helping hand has long been a tradition at many commercial enterprises. Community goodwill comes from the volunteer work carried out by Adaptive Marketing’s members of staff, and the members of staff of companies like it, over the course of company sponsored initiatives like the ones discussed in this article. Volunteering to help others leaves you feeling like a better person — just the sort of feeling to make employees motivated in both their volunteer activities and back behind their desks.
