Your Company and the Community — Improving Your Standing with Volunteer Work
March 9th, 2010We all know that giving your time as a volunteer allows you to strengthen the bonds of your community and in the same stride assist the needy. Of course, organizing your schedule so that you’re free to volunteer may waste very time that could really be put to better use elsewhere. It hardly needs pointing out, when volunteering becomes a team effort with friends from work, it will be far more fun. Consequently, firms have begun making themselves into points of organization encouraging their employees to give back to the community through volunteer activities. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who developed shopping and financial benefits programs including SavingsAce. Luckily, company-supported volunteer activity has grown beyond blood drives and once-a-year charitable giving. Tennis shoe recycling programs and more energetic efforts like tree replanting days — these and other activities have been arranged for its staff by Adaptive Marketing. For events like these, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were announced, ensuring that employees knew what to expect, and how much time it might take precisely.
Giving volunteers a say in what activities are available is essential. Staff members from Adaptive Marketing, the company who developed the program SavingsAce, choose from among many activities. Prior projects have included work in areas as diverse as education for children and young adults, environmental awareness activities, and events supporting performance art. Adaptive Marketing’s staff members have so much to choose from that they’re certain to have something they enjoy to volunteer for, ensuring they’ll spend their time effectively and happily.
Usually a company supported charity project — getting involved with a local school or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. There will be those who claim they don’t have the time, but even they can arrange for the public library’s used book sale or a Saturday morning park clean-up. Commercial history is full of examples of companies giving back to the people who live around them. The good worksefforts of those who work at businesses like Adaptive Marketing create important good feeling in their home town. Another upside is, the benefits of volunteer work include feeling better about yourself — an upbeat feeling that uplifts the entire company. Promoting the volunteer spirit among your staff becomes its own reward.











