Innovative Ideas on Creating Strategic Community Partnerships: For Business

The popularity of Employee Volunteer Programs is on the rise. This year, charitable donations from corporations are trending to fall by as much as fifty percent. To make up the difference, businesses are looking to their employees to provide tactile connections with the communities in which they operate. In providing assets to non-profits such as enthusiastic participants, key skill sets, and company resources, business hopes to see meaningful good come of it.

The question is, what good? Whose good? Does your community really want volunteers over dollars? Who decides which community organization to partner with? And how? Do you have the skills to responsibly engage the targeted communities? How do you motivate your employees to participate? And is all of this good work helping or actually hurting your company?

Most importantly, where can you go for the answers?



Create Strategic Community Partnerships

This workshop* is designed to answer the above questions and provide efficient methods for creating effective community partnerships. The course is highly participative, utilizing group discussion, best practice reviews, guest speakers, and live presentations of online tools to equip you to develop and execute your Employee Volunteer Program (EVP).

* Includes catered lunch.

Key Takeaways:

* Discover how community partnerships are your key to a successful community engagement strategy
* Learn how to identify the right partners for your company.
* Understand the unique dynamics of community partnerships, and how to ensure their continued success
* Learn how to work with Nonprofits to create the right space to engage your volunteers at their highest level of contribution
* Examine the latest and best practices for creating high levels of volunteer engagement, discover why they work, and how to reproduce the results in any context
* Learn how to capture the value of your EVP to effect positive change within your company
* Learn how to identify outcomes, create measurement systems, and collect meaningful data

Featured guests;

Bob Willard, author of the Sustainability Champion's Guidebook, outlines how internal leaders can transform their companies to sustainable enterprises.




Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is Professor of Strategy at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.






Dave Robitaille, the Operations Manager at IBM Canada, with oversight of IBM's On Demand Community and the IBM Employees Charitable Foundation.


Erin Gillard, the Corporate Communications and Corporate Citizen Specialist at SAP Canada.

Farron Levy, the Founder and CEO of True Impact. He is also an associate staff member of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

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