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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 3:00 AM (ET)
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 Partnerships with Business
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:
Featured Guests:
Bob Willard
Bob is a leading expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies business and leadership development experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities associated with sustainability issues.
He is the author of two books on the business justification for sustainability strategies, The Sustainability Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave. The DVD of his typical presentation, The Business Case for Sustainability, is used in webinars to help him reduce his carbon footprint from global speaking trips. His latest book, The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook, outlines how internal leaders can transform their companies to sutainable enterprises.
Dirk Matten
Dirk holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is Professor of Strategy at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. His doctoral degree and his Habilitation are from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. He is interested in CSR, business ethics and international management. Dirk has taught and done research at academic institutions in Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and the US.
Dirk has published nine books and some eighty refereed articles and book chapters, including papers in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, British Journal of Management, Human Relations and Business Ethics Quarterly. Recently, he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of CSR (Oxford University Press 2008) and co-authored Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2008). He is on the board of the journals Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Research, Business Strategy and the Environment, Organization & Environment, and Revue de l’Organisation Responsable. Previously, he had a Chair in Business Ethics and was Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability at the University of London/UK (Royal Holloway).
Dave Robitaille
Dave Robitaille has been with IBM Canada since 1990, spending most of his career in the Supply Chain Management disciplines, where he has progressively built his career in the areas of compliance management, government relations and strategic planning.
Dave is currently the Manager of IBM Canada’s Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs (CCCA) organization. In this role, he is responsible for evangelizing IBM’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, including community outreach and philanthropy, Corporate Grants and Employee Volunteerism programs. Dave has also been responsible for IBM Canada’s internal, executive and external Communications, including Media, Public and Community Relations. As the leader of IBM Canada’s CSR Programs, he works directly with IBM’s Environmental Affairs, Human Resources, and Government Programs teams to ensure that IBM maximizes its message of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Farron Levy
Farron Levy is president of True Impact (www.true-impact.com), a leading provider of web-based tools and consulting services for measuring social, financial, and environmental return on investment (ROI). True Impact’s “triple bottom line” evaluations have helped companies such as Allstate, Deloitte, Home Depot, PNC Bank, and Verizon to prove value, guide strategic investment, and promote continuous improvement of community engagement, sustainability, and other corporate citizenship activities.
Farron was formerly a partner and director of cost-benefit-analysis services at SmithOBrien, a social auditing firm; co-founder and president of a yield-management service for the restaurant industry; and an analyst with Industrial Economics, Inc., an environmental and economic consulting firm. Farron has also managed urban economic development projects for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Social Venture Network, and CitySkills (where he was executive director); and served as an advisor to City Year, New Profit, and CitySoft. He earned an MPP from Harvard University, and a BS with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is beginner to intermediate level. It is designed for CSR practitioners and executives responsible for managing Employee Volunteer Programs. Others who will benefit from this course include: students, government officials and others charged with building partnerships with communities, and/or who have backgrounds in community engagement.
Workshop Presenter:
Chris
Jarvis is the Senior Consultant for Realized Worth located in Toronto,
Canada. His expertise is in designing and implementing Employee
Volunteer Programs. Over the past 20 years, Chris has worked alongside
NPO's across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia utilizing
a model that elevates volunteerism from a task-oriented activity to a
transformative experience. Chris' model avoids the complexity of most
popular approaches in Volunteer Management Theory, while increasing
participation and satisfaction rates. Participants become more
invigorated and productive in their respective places of employment.
Recently, Chris and his partner Angela were advisers in the writing of “Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering: The Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Giving Programs and Fortune 500 Performance”; produced by Boston College and authored by Bea Boccalandro. Chris and Angela also act as expert writers on several websites including APEsphere.com, SocialFinance.ca, Volunteer Canada’s CorporateVolunteering.ca, and SustainabilityForum.com. Chris is currently collaborating on a book which will be a comprehensive guide to Corporate Social Responsibility for HR managers.
Chris is a popular speaker, offering inspiring presentations to audiences as large as 7000. His style of wrapping gripping story lines around key observations has proven to be an effective method to capture and keep an audiences attention. Over his speaking career, Chris has delivered presentations to over 50,000 people in Canada, the US, Australia and Africa.
What people are saying about Chris' presentations:
“I
highly recommend Chris as a leader and a speaker. Chris has the unique
ability to deliver a hard hitting message with humor and humility. Most
importantly, the messages that Chris delivers stay with you long after
the speech or presentation. He is in touch with the realities of todays
world, the bright side and the dark side, and can help motivate you to
action by tapping into all of your emotions.”
Rebecca Hession , Client Partner , FranklinCovey
http://www.franklincovey.com/4dflv/4D_2Vid.html
“Chris
is an exuberant presenter and engages his audience from the moment he
starts speaking. His wit and playful approach to teaching and
facilitating made attending his workshop a pleasure. His examples, in
particular, made it possible to really absorb and understand the
material… as did the anecdotes he shared with the group. Finally, I
got the distinct impression that Chris was there to not only share with
us, but to learn from and with us – and I value that highly in a
presenter. I will seek out other opportunities to hear Chris speak – I
really enjoyed being a part of his audience.”
Kirsten Keil-Mehlenbacher, Manager, Volunteer Programs, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
http://www.cbcf.org/en-US/ontario.aspx
“Chris
is an engaging, humourous, practical speaker. He challenges you to
think beyond the borders of what you are doing today to see different
possibilities and potential for tomorrow.”
Faiza Kanji, Manager of Volunteer Services, Surrey Place Centre, Toronto
www.surreyplace.on.ca
“I
attended a workshop on volunteerism facilitated by Chris and found him
to be very engaging. He was very knowledgeable on the topic, used
humour to illustrate concepts, and allowed the audience to participate,
always keeping it interesting.”
Nattasha Lue, Coordinator, Volunteer Resources, Self-Help Resource Centre, Toronto
www.selfhelp.on.ca
“Chris
has a remarkable ability to help people see their gifts and then to
provide them the space in which to find their own magic. In the context
of groups Chris can assimilate large amounts of information and
integrate it into a meaningful and inspiring message for people to
follow. He helps people see more clearly how to have a more meaningful
life.”
Jim Struck , Owner , Leadership Vision, LLC
http://ldrshipvision.com/
“Chris
is an energetic leader with a passion for helping people, and for
people who are helping people. He delivers what he says and always
seems to have the right mix of humor and candor that supports
confidence and comfort for those around him.”
John W Samples , President / CEO , Lighthouse Ministries, Inc
Contact Info:
Chris Jarvis
Senior Consultant, Realized Worth
416-567-2004
chrisjarvis@realizedworth.com
realizedworth.blogspot.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjarviscan
http://twitter.com/RealizedWorth
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Via MichelinWe provide training and hands-on involvement in the design and implementation of outstanding and sustainable Employee Volunteer Programs.
Our blog, 'Realizing Your Worth', has a broad global following, providing support and insight to practitioners in the field.
Contact Info:
Chris Jarvis
Senior Consultant, Realized Worth
416-567-2004
chrisjarvis@realizedworth.com
realizedworth.blogspot.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjarviscan
http://twitter.com/RealizedWorth
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