How to partner with Activate Good to manage or support your Employee Volunteer initiatives
Planning corporate service projects and events or volunteer teambuilding activities takes time and access to resources. This is especially true when you seek that special touch that will make the day memorable, or an opportunity that can accommodate a larger group in a specific geographic or cause area. To smoothly plan a successful corporate volunteer project or event, you need experience, local knowledge, dedicated time, and attention to a variety of details that could impact the local environment, the beneficiary, and more. That’s why Activate Good’s Corporate Engagement Program provides custom services for companies. With our experience and connections to 500+ local nonprofits and public schools, we can save your team hours and hours of staff time that would be necessary for research, planning, and other preparation to pull off a large service project or event, or to lineup regular service opportunities. But we’re not just saving your company time and resources; we’re also saving time and resources for the causes you want to impact. Many nonprofits encounter capacity issues preventing them from being able to effectively accommodate special group volunteer requests or manage larger facilitated volunteer events on their own. A common misconception is that volunteering does not cost anyone anything. In fact, providing space, supplies, and adequate staffing to manage volunteers – especially special, customized, or large projects – can carry significant costs to the nonprofit. When Activate Good takes on the majority of planning and coordination for special projects, the nonprofit receives the benefit without these usual costs, too!
Activate Good supports companies with offices or events in the Triangle by providing full-service and support options that can be tailored to a company’s unique needs and goals for volunteer teambuilding and community impact activities.
Our services include:
- Custom Service Projects and Events
(Event Planning Service, One-Time or Annual Contract) Activate Good acts as your special service event planner, providing full, turnkey planning, management and leadership for awesome facilitated volunteer events and activities! Examples include: A day of service during which you send your teams to custom projects at multiple locations; A large custom project at a single off-site nonprofit or school location; A “portable project” brought on-site to your office* or event venue. (*Need a project for a smaller group (30-50 people)? Ask us about “at will” options.)
Click here to learn more about the process, project and support options, service add-ons, and more! - Custom Service Calendars
(Booking Service, Annual Contract) Activate Good works with you to organize a calendar of regular volunteer project outings per year at the frequency and volunteer group size(s) of your choice (example: quarterly days of service, up to 3 projects and 80 volunteers per quarter). We can also work on retainer to organize projects by request for an agreed to number of referrals and volunteers per year (example: 10 department/team project requests for up to 30 volunteers each, or 300 total volunteers – whichever comes first). What do you need to do? Click here to learn more about the process, but the most important step for you is to show up to your project(s)! - Employee Volunteer Program Consulting to support your efforts to launch, grow, or improve the impact of your program may be available by request; please email corporate@activategood.org to discuss your unique needs.