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Fundamentals of Employee Volunteer Programs

Community Involvement
Today鈥檚 employee corporate volunteer programs鈥攚hether they are traditional, skills-based, or pro bono鈥攑rovide opportunities to develop leadership and other skills, network with other employees, and reinforce personal and company values. Does your corporate volunteering program maximize value on all three of these dimensions? This course will give you the tools to create or continuously improve volunteer programs that are highly recognizable, valued programs that help build better partnerships, deepen engagement among employees, and contribute to the company鈥檚 visibility and reputation.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Develop programs that deliver value to your employees, community, and business.
  • Make the most of your corporate citizenship budget dollars by leveraging volunteers and establishing ambassador networks.
  • Understand the factors motivating others to support and participate in your programs in greater numbers.
  • Design communications reinforcing reputation, employee retention, and other business relationship goals.
  • Set and achieve participation goals.
  • Measure progress and performance.

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Enrollment Options

Look! There's More than One Way to Take This Course...

TAKE IT ONLINE, STARTING TODAY (OR WHENEVER YOU'RE READY)! This course is available in a fully-online, self-paced format. You can complete it at your desk, according to your schedule

Take It At the 2025 Spring Summit A significant portion of this course will be offered at the 2025 Spring Summit. You can complete the remaining portion at home, at your own pace. Come to the Summit for 1, 2, 3, 4, or all 5 days!

Need Help Deciding? Our team is happy to walk you through your options, and explain the difference between taking a course online, in hybrid format, and/or as part of a certificate program. Please reach out with your questions!

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Course Content: Preview the Specific Units or Modules Included in This Course

 

COURSE STRUCTURE

Start and finish on your schedule: Courses take 15-17 hours, including video content and exercises.

Module 1: Introduction and Volunteering Overview

  • Outline an overview of what topics can be expected throughout the course
  • Introduces context and research relevant to volunteering
  • Activity: conduct an analysis of your company鈥檚 volunteering portfolio

Module 2: The Vision for Your Volunteer Program

  • Assess company performance and culture to devise a clear vision for a volunteer program
  • Activity: assess your company鈥檚 volunteer program(s) as they are today

Module 3: Strategy

  • Explore tools and models that will aid in the process of building a sound strategy for a volunteer program
  • Activity: case study and evaluate strategy

Module 4: Structure

  • Prepare the organization for the program by framing a structure that fits within the organization
  • Activity: discuss leadership and structure within the course

Module 5: People

  • Develop an understanding for individual motivations in order to optimize engagement with the volunteer program
  • Activity: design a program made to address roadblocks

Module 6: Rewards

  • Learn effective methods to leverage incentives to promote employee participation and engagement
  • Activity: design a program to provide benefits, share values, and motivate

Module 7: Processes and Systems

  • Conduct a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis to understand organizational competencies
  • Activity: SWOT analysis and a case study

Module 8: Evaluate Success

  • Methods for measuring and evaluating success of the volunteer program
  • Activity: view a video and capture shared metrics

Module 9: Communicate Success

  • Successfully communicate success to stakeholders to maintain interest and support of the volunteer program
  • Activity: create an understanding of effective communication

Module 10: Tying it all Together

  • Constructively scrutinize a case study to apply understanding of the STAR Model in the context of a volunteer program
  • Activity: build a STAR model for a case study


This course is recommended for:

Corporate citizenship professionals responsible for the design, development, and execution of employee volunteer programs as well as corporate citizenship professionals seeking to rejuvenate an existing employee volunteer program.

Suggested prior knowledge and skills:

Completion of the Center course  or a broad knowledge of Corporate Citizenship.

Professional credentials earned:

5 certificate units toward a Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice. This an elective course for a .

 


Tuition

禄&苍产蝉辫;惭别尘产别谤: $2130.00

禄&苍产蝉辫;狈辞苍-惭别尘产别谤: $2900.00

Please note that course discounts may be available when you enroll in multiple courses at once, either idependently or as part of a  (in-person learning experience) registration. See the chart below. If you are considering take multiple courses,  to better understand your options.

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