My Guide: Volunteering Your Time
2 February 2010We all know that donating your time as a volunteer is a way for you to make your community stronger as well as assisting the needy. Scheduling this kind of event is not actually as quick as you’d think, and let’s not forget that this in itself is free time that could be used in actually volunteering. And volunteering is more fun when your co-workers are pitching in right along with you! In response, firms have begun making themselves into organizing points to help their employees work for the community through volunteer activities. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who developed financial benefits programs like Shopping Essentials.
Company based initiatives like these were always annual events — but nowadays that can be seen as just the beginning. Tennis shoe recycling initiatives and more active work like tree planting days — these and other activities have been made possible for its staff by Adaptive Marketing. Using central organization individual initiatives grew into larger events, with specific locations, times and dates made public ahead of time to make time management easy for those signing up.
It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no choice between activities, naturally. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you Shopping Essentials, employees can pick and choose from a wide variety of volunteer programs. Previous and current projects have included work in a wide variety of areas including education for children and young adults, environmental programs, and events helping local artists. Often, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more gets done, and as a result by offering so many projects Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress will be made in a great many areas.
Most often a company-supported volunteer project — fundraising with a local school or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. No matter how short the time you can spare, there’s going to be some project you can take part in, which means time is no obstacle to charitable work. Turning their profit-making skills to help the community around them is a practice with a long pedigree at many firms. The activities of those who work at Adaptive Marketing create important goodwill in their home community. Another upside is, the benefits of helping others include feeling better about yourself — a positive feeling that uplifts the entire corporation.
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