Skills based Volunteerism: Aim for Maximum Impact
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Looking for ways to increase your capacity to address serious social issues?
Presented by Evan Hochberg, National Director or Community Involvement, Deloitte Services LP
Learn how you can effectively employ skill-based volunteering to maximize the social impact of your EVP. Evan has worked to increase Deloitte's social capacity through mobilizing and inspiring thousands of employee volunteers worldwide to donate their unique skills through skill-based volunteerism. During the webinar, Evan will share how Deloitte leverages its diverse intellectual capital through their signature volunteer day, IMPACT Day, address why there is a growing need and identify key strategies to start your own program. A special guest, The Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has successfully recruited over 9,000 professionals to engage in skills-based volunteering, will also share their best practices.
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Many of you had some questions that we were unable to get to during the webinar. Here are the answers:
We’ve really taken a consultative approach to working with our internal HR team. In meetings with the leaders of the various HR functions, we’ve communicated our belief in the important role of HR in the organization, and have asked them to help us to further understand their mission so that we can think deeply about places where our two missions intersect. Through this collaborative style, we’ve been able to engage their leaders in numerous conversations, shared our research with them related to retention, career development and attracting employees, and have built the case that the desired outcomes of our two areas are quite similar. (See the Deloitte research here: http://deloitte.com/dtt/article/0,1002,cid%253D162408,00.html)
We think there are really two points here. First, make sure to not create hard mandates about where your employees must volunteer. Volunteering is an extremely personal experience, and to dictate where your people must volunteer can really damage your volunteerism program. Keep the options open, while ensuring that the events chosen are related in some way to the key strategies of your community involvement group. Secondly, it helps if your organization as a whole chooses to be involved with several chief causes. At Deloitte, we support education, youth, and ethics education. We then tie our nationally supported relationships with non-profits to the strategy set by our organization.
We utilize the supported causes feature in AngelPoints to support our SBV efforts. By creating a new cause category, called “skills-based volunteerism”, we allow our event managers to choose this as one of the causes that those SBV events support. Then when employees search for a volunteer event, and see skills-based volunteerism as an option, they can choose to select projects that will allow them to use their skills. We also used a little trick and put a “1” in front of the skills-based volunteerism title so that it would display first on the drop down list! On the back end, we can also report on which projects have been created that are SBV in nature and can measure our growth in this area.