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Tired of asking for handouts from businesses? You don't like it, and neither do they. Instead, enter into a partnership of equals. How? Give them what they want. Then, watch your problems with funding, networking, and creating awareness disappear.
This workshop* will provide answers for the headaches that plague non-profit organizations. Attend and find out how easy it can be to establish strong funding partnerships, find the skilled, committed volunteers you need, and automate your programs to smoothly handle any number of volunteers.
Corporate Volunteering doesn't have to be about painting the same wall a new color. The New Volunteerism meets people we're they're at, resulting in effective programs and strong communities.
* Includes catered lunch.
Create Strategic Partnerships with Business
Leading companies the world over are investing in their communities by leveraging employees, resources, and market knowledge. Companies such as Walt Disney, Proctor and Gamble, Deloitte, Bank of America, Levi Strauss, Coca Cola, and The Body Shop are moving from mere philanthropy to a more sophisticated approach known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Unlike previous philanthropic efforts, CSR is a key strategy that offers a competitive advantage to businesses. Now, instead of asking for handouts, non-profits can offer partnerships.
Your nonprofit organization can play a vital role enabling companies to achieve better visibility, team building, staff training, and employee engagement. This workshop will use case studies, group problem-solving activities, peer coaching and guest experts from the local business to develop and manage key partnerships with corporate stakeholders.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Key Takeaways:
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.
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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