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Here are a few questions that I've been contemplating. I think some of these might be great questions to help spur some discussions at our luncheon. Every one of these could be scoped down in focus or expanded in vision. Do any of these questions resonate with you? Do they prompt other questions, or ideas for refining the question itself?

• How can my company make community the best investment?
• How can I make community my best investment?
• What kinds of things can I do to take my program to the next level?
• What does a perfect volunteer site look like?
• How do we leverage the talents & skills in this room to make the world a better place?
• What is the right mix of social investment? Volunteering, giving, grants, and more?
• What new things could I do in my position if I could leverage the entire AngelPoints network?

July 16th AngelPoints Client Luncheon: What topics would you like to hear about?

I'd like to see other clients' AngelPoints Web sites. I want to see brief 3-5 minute demonstrations of several company AngelPoints sites that show:

** How is the site branded
** Is there a "gateway" or special web address before you get into the AngelPoints site
** What pictures are on the site and how are they used.
** What are the color combinations?
** What messages are on the site (quote from CEO? quote from volunteer? Highlight of big event)
** Look and feel of the site

I had the opportunity to take part in an AngelPoints presentation/demonstration at the Central Arizona Corporate Volunteer Council meeting in February 2007. The Arizona CVC members who used AngelPoints were fascinated at looking at other companies' AngelPoints Web sites. We learned a lot about AngelPoints that we never knew as a result of simply seeing previews of other companies' AngelPoints sites.

Thank you,

Roger Hancock
AAA of Northern California, Nevada, & Utah and serving Colorado Springs, Irvine, & Phoenix

AngelPoints offered us a great opportunity to listen to the CEO of Hasbro dialogue around the book "The Business of Changing the World" (written by Marc Benioff & Carlye Adler). CEO Hasenfeld mentioned that "Social Auditing Compliance is a new science" and he is right, it is a new science. I'm interested in learning about that science from other corporations perspective.

We are working hard to provide some measurements and scorecarding around the Community Development Impact of our volunteer efforts as a corporation. I would like to learn how other companies measure or monitor the return on investment of their community development activities related to volunteerism.

Does your company have a scorecard or a set of metrics to measure ROI against?
How did you go about setting goals and standards?
How do you utilize the AngelPoints reporting system to support these measurements?
Have you established any standardized reporting structure yet? (we have)

This is one topic that I could use some more input on & it would help out tremendously in our CEO reporting!

It sounds like what might be at the heart of the discussion is how to run a more effective volunteer program, whether it's through more attractive event promotions, strategies for building excitement or whether it's about how and what to measure when evaluating the effectiveness of the program.

We're going to try to touch on these issues and more during our luncheon conversation. How would you answer this question: "What is the one thing I can do to double my company's participation rates?"

I am very much looking forward to having a dialogue with the AngelPoints team and other AngelPoints customers on how they measure the impact of volunteer events in their community and whether or not they use any type of scorecard to monitor their goals and targets. How do you report out "Family & Friends and Retiree" volunteer hours to your Sr. Management? What types of questions or further investigation do you Sr. Management teams ask of you?

I would also really enjoy hearing about best practices in working with Non-Profits. Does anyone plot out years-long planning? How do you work with State of Federal agencies such as State or National Parks? Does anyone work with Hospitals, hospice, homes for troubled children, orphanages? I realize that each corporation has it's own directional projects - what are your criteria in selecting these venues & concepts?

Finally, I would love to hear more about how AngelPoints new EV07 software could help us to collaborate with other AngelPoints subscribers so that we could maximize our efforts in the community - we've banded together with Wells Fargo on a project and that really provided momentum and a nice 'conversational' factor to our event. Folks talked about future collaborations and I'm interested to see how EV07 will support those efforts.

Thanks AngelPoints for the invitation to the luncheon, most of all, I'm looking forward to enjoying meeting the staff and to building lasting relationships with other AngelPoints subscribers!

See you in a few days!

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