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New one-day programs on volunteerism

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:57:58 +0000

Many community involvement practitioners suffer from the nagging feeling that their employee volunteer programs are good but not yet great. However, their attempts at improvement have been hampered by the absence of useful benchmarking information and the absence of a guiding management framework capable of predicting success. How can you move your employee volunteer program from good to great?

The Boston College Center’s new one-day workshop is designed to answer this question.

In this one-day workshop Bea Boccalandro will offer support to employee volunteer program managers on both fronts. She will share findings from the leading benchmarking study, “Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering: The Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Giving Programs and Fortune 500 Performance”. She will also help participants use the benchmarking data and the associated Drivers of Effectiveness management framework to identify potential improvements that can propel their programs from good to great.

One-day workshop objectives:

Learn about the promise that employee volunteering holds for 21st century corporate citizenship
Discover what it takes to develop and manage a program that generates impact in the community and on the business
Identify best practices from companies around the globe
Plan how to take your employee volunteer program to its next level

We are offering this one-day event in two locations on two different dates. Click on the links below for more information, or call Karen O’Malley at 617.552.1553.

Moving Your Employee Volunteer Program from Good to Great
November 10, 2009, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Hosted by OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
New York, NY

Moving Your Employee Volunteer Program from Good to Great
December 2, 2009, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Hosted by Texas Instruments
Dallas, Texas

Back to school time isn’t just for the kids

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:57:18 +0000

Feeling nostalgic as you see all those kids headed off to school this fall? Maybe it’s time to think about your own education needs. We’ve announced the following fall courses, which can also be viewed in our fall catalog at right. Register for a course today! You may not get to ride the school bus, but we promise there won’t be much homework either.

Communicating Corporate Citizenship (October 14-16, Chicago)
This program offers concrete insights that will help you develop an effective approach to corporate citizenship communication. Click to learn more.

Leveraging Corporate-Community Partnerships (October 14-16, Chicago)
This course will help you design partnerships with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and citizen groups that create greater value for society and your business. Click to learn more.

Communications for Community Involvement Managers (November 4-6, San Antonio)
This course will help you meet the internal and external communication challenges facing community involvement managers today. Click to learn more.

Evaluating and Measuring Community Involvement (November 4-6, San Antonio)
This course will help you establish an ongoing process to evaluate the effectiveness and value of your community involvement programs. Click to learn more.

We also offer courses at company sites on request and can customize our offerings to address your companies’ specific challenges and needs. To learn more call Eileen at 617.552.1467.

Does your community involvement program add real value?

Ron Brown, Boston College Center educator — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:44:12 +0000

As the operating environment for business continues to change, more is expected of companies, even when fewer resources are available. As a result the bar for community involvement managers continues to rise. Community needs are great and there is an expectation to make a meaningful difference. Additionally community involvement managers must do more than align community programs with the business. They must add demonstrable value to the business.

Unfortunately you can’t do everything and you can’t be all things to all people. Choices must be made. So what choices will your company make? What will you do? Perhaps more importantly, what WON’T you do?

The Boston College Center’s course Developing a Community Involvement Strategy will help you create or refine your community involvement program to provide maximum value to the community and to the company. This highly interactive workshop will provide a proven process to move your community involvement program to a higher level of impact. You will also work with peers in applying the concepts discussed, explore best practices and developing real strategies to remove obstacles to achieving exceptional performance.

Making informed choices, doing more with less and increasing impact are critical to continued success in community involvement, now more than ever before.