Volunteer Canada Launches NEW SITE to promote Corporate Volunteerism!
In 2007 Canadian volunteers gave over 2.1 billion hours of their time - a 4.2% increase from 2004 report Statistics Canada. And increasingly much of the credit for this impressive stat is thanks to companies across the country who have been stepping up and establishing employee volunteering programs.
In an effort to encourage and grow the contribution of the corporate sector Volunteer Canada, in co-operation with the Canadian Corporate Council on Volunteering, is launching the Centre for Excellence in Corporate Community Involvement.
This site brings together Canada’s nonprofits and businesses to explore and further promote the practice of employer-supported volunteerism.
Businesses and nonprofits from across the country are joining the nationwide membership of Volunteer Canada in an effort to better communicate and work together in partnership. This process will be facilitated by the Centre for Excellence’s social networking tool hosted to exchange ideas, best practices, tools and resources.
To register, please visit www.corporatevolunteering.ca
The 21st Century Citizen. How do we Get Involved Today?
For the past ten years my partner at qmedia solutions and I have been doing a lot of pro bono work for a number of not-for-profits and charities. We've really enjoyed it but we wanted to do more. First we wanted to tell stories about some of the amazing people who had inspired us. And so we started with TV storytelling and on October 26th Get Involved had it's World Premiere on TVO-- Ontario's premiere public broadcaster. So far we have produced 25 profiles of amazing innovators, social entrepreneurs and activists. Take a look at our stories. Tell us what you think. Tell us about people or organizations that inspire you. During our research we sensed a growing movement growing all around us-- people realizing their skills and their expertise can be used not only to bring them financial rewards but deeper connection and meaning in their lives. And so our next step was to concieve of a website that would transform the inspiration of the television profiles and help propell people into action and Getinvolved.ca was born. Join the conversation...
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