Www.coyotecommunications.com/tech/volmanagesoftware.pdf. Corporate Volunteering Tools: My 5 Favorites (Plus 47 more that are worth checking out) Managing a volunteer program can be exhausting – but it shouldn’t be.
There are numerous tools, social media sites, and other resources available to help you plan great events, communicate effectively, and capture the right data for making things better. Consider the resources below – they will make your life easier. I find it odd that when I ask companies about their methods for managing employee volunteer programs (EVP), I hear responses like “Well…we use excel.” or “Pen and paper works pretty good for us.” Or worse – they tell me they, “can’t find anything that works with our internal systems, so we’re building something.” Um…these are big companies.
So, not out of the kindness of my heart, but rather the frustration of my mind, I bring you the solutions that will save your soul. Corporate Volunteering Management Solutions Angel Points: This company offers a number of online solutions meant to increase employee engagement in a company’s corporate social responsibility program. Volunteerism ROI Tracker. Quantifying volunteer activities: BLS occupational wage data. Quantifying volunteer activities: BLS occupational wage data Posted by Sadie Miller on Tue, Aug 14, 2012 @ 08:13 AM Like the Independent Sector, True Impact’s Volunteerism ROI Tracker uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics mean wage data to value and benchmark volunteer activities across companies evaluating their employee volunteer programs.
Benefits There are three primary benefits of using BLS mean wages to value volunteer activities: 1. This year’s occupational wage data includes more than 800 occupations. Using BLS data, an organization can differentiate between volunteers helping a nonprofit use their new software system (Computer Support Specialists, $24.91 per hour) and those designing the client database (Software Developers, Applications, $44.27 per hour). 2. BLS data includes state breakdowns of all occupational data, so organizations can calculate rates in one state or compare volunteer value across regions. 3. Limitations 1. Volunteer Value Calculator - Estimate of the Value of Volunteer Activity (EVVA) Www.nald.ca/library/research/heritage/compartne/pdfdocs/estvole.pdf.
Sites/default/files/Acumen - Social Investing - CAWST.pdf. Measuring Performance. I was recently at a Calgary+Acumen Fund event where CAWST presented on social impact investing and measuring performance of an organization.
It was a great conversation, in large part, because here was a charity that was advocating for stronger evaluation metrics before donors make charitable contributions. When an individual evaluates a company before s/he invests there are several things that are evaluated: LeadershipFinancial stabilityProductOpportunity for financial gainFuture plans and growth opportunities (new markets)Competitive landscape What we discussed at this event was information that donors should be looking at before making their charitable contributions. If you are looking at your charitable or social dollars as an investment in community, then approaching a charity from an evaluative position makes sense. Social impact investing covers a broad range - from investment capital into a for-profit social venture, to a grant to a non-profit social enterprise.
Finding ways to better describe, measure and replicate community engagement. Photo Credit: Flickr user callumscott2 By Paula Ellis, VP/Strategic Initiatives While engagement is widely seen as a core feature of the best solutions to community challenges, there isn’t yet an agreed upon way to describe it, copy it, measure it - or even know if it’s spreading.
A yearlong study of collaboratives found that nearly all of them struggled with how to engage residents as co-producers of change. The study, which examined 100 such community-wide efforts and identified 12 as best of class, looked specifically at how institutions engage with each other and how community members themselves engage to produce impact. Armed with this body of research on what works and with newly announced support from Knight Foundation, the Aspen Institute is launching a Forum for Community Solutions to do two things: share practical tools and skills that can be put to use immediately and build a community of practice that digs deeper.
Melody C. Www.philanthropy.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PhilanthropyScope_A4-Final.pdf. How to Measure Your Nonprofit’s Performance.