Volunteer Management – Worthwhile Corporate Volunteer Days

How to work together with business to deliver fantastic, impactful corporate volunteer days for your organisation.

What you’ll learn
Learn why facilitating corporate volunteer days has historically been frustrating for the third sector and communities.
Learn to identify what your organisation can offer to businesses that can make these opportunities lucrative and valuable for your organisation.
Learn the key problem areas for volunteer using organisations when working with business and solutions to help you avoid them.
Learn how to design and deliver a project that will satisfy both business and organisation needs and truly make a difference.

Requirements
The previous courses will be of value but no previous training or knowledge is required.

Description
This course is for any charitable or community organisation considering working with businesses to run corporate volunteering days. These days are often the worst part of a volunteer management role: random business people who know nothing about your mission, showing up unprepared to do work they don’t want to do and didn’t know they were coming to do. But it doesn’t have to be that way! In this course I will teach you how to prepare corporate volunteering projects that are beneficial for your organisation and mission and are inspiring and impactful. Using research and case studies I will explain where we’ve all struggled in the past and how we can resolve those challenges to build projects that are efficient, effective and perhaps even enjoyable.We will cover common mistakes and challenges and how to solve or avoid them, the differences between businesses and charitable organisations that cause problems, why you should bother working with businesses, how to design successful corporate volunteering projects and what to prepare to make sure you and your organisation are ready to deliver them. We’ll also cover common questions such as: should you charge for corporate volunteering days? And is it really worth it?I hope you find it useful.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: First Things First

Lecture 2 Why should you bother trying to work with businesses?

Lecture 3 Common mistakes often mentioned by volunteer using organisations.

Lecture 4 What can you, as a third sector organisation or community offer a business?

Lecture 5 What can corporations and businesses offer your organisation?

Lecture 6 Where to start

Section 3: Key Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Lecture 7 Consider the financial requirements of the project

Lecture 8 Identify and build a plan to cope with the inevitable communication differences

Lecture 9 How to talk about money

Section 4: A Model For Corporate Volunteering Days That Will Work

Lecture 10 Plan projects rather than days

Lecture 11 Understand how to make the most of the businesses you are working with.

Lecture 12 Teamwork makes the dreamwork – working together successfully

Section 5: Understanding The Research

Lecture 13 What were the findings from interviews with businesses?

Lecture 14 What were the findings from interviews with volunteer using organisations?

Lecture 15 What challenges impacted both the business and the 3rd sector organisation?

Lecture 16 Identifying wide reaching, useful insight from specific projects.

Section 6: Next Steps and Conclusion

Lecture 17 The next steps for you and your organisation

Lecture 18 Conclusion

This course is for voluntary or paid Volunteer Managers and Coordinators who want to (or must) deliver corporate volunteering days.