My husband does! He helps rebuild oyster beds which probably isn’t very helpful. His job has a list of places that will take one day volunteers. Another popular one is an urban farm but I think most parents do a day at their kid’s school.
They do oyster beds here too! I'm not sure if they do it on weekdays.
He really likes it! They generally do a couple week days and then some evenings over the season.
I work for a large financial institution and we get 8 paid hours a year. We can split the hours up anyway we want. We also got paid 3 hours to take time off to vote in presidential elections
Post by litskispeciality on Apr 12, 2024 12:44:57 GMT -5
I've had this before, but typically it was used if you volunteered with the company outing or the United Way Day of Caring. If you did UW you could pick from a number of cool opportunities like packing meals, working on a farm or painting a room or fence. Typically the event ended early and you could go home, so that was a bonus.
My friend was able to volunteer with a group that knits/crochet's items to give away. The group would even teach you to knit/crochet if you needed lessons. Friend ended up joining the group for some time. That might be a good one if you're bringing a child (pending they want to do that).
Also food pantries always need help. That would probably be great for a kid to keep busy and make a difference.
Yes, we get 80 hours per year, so 10 business days. My company is very big into giving back. You can do group things, individual days, or even “give back” trips where you can travel for volunteer work. It’s pretty amazing. I never get anywhere even CLOSE to hitting my 80 hours.
Wow!
Yeah, it’s kind of insane. I’ve never worked anywhere else that gave near this much paid volunteer time. A lot of people use it all, so it does get put to good use, which is awesome to see and hear about.
My old company had a day of giving thing, where you'd get a paid day if you volunteered on the company sponsored day.
The better deal for the non-profits is really when the employees volunteered on their own hours and they get both the volunteer time and $20/hr in donations. I'm on a board of a tiny non-profit, and we really miss our corporate employee who moved away. She brought in hundreds of dollars for us through her volunteer hours.
(They sadly never got that from me, I didn't start volunteering with them until after I left.)
That company also does 1:1 matching up to something like $10,000 in cash donations.
We get 8 hours for a company sponsored volunteer project in addition to 16 hours to use as you see fit (no religious affiliated projects unless it's something like a food bank, community garden planting, Habitat for Humanity build, or a benefit for the community. You can't volunteer for your religious institution's Sunday service/bookkeeping/and such.)
Post by RoxMonster on Apr 12, 2024 18:10:04 GMT -5
We get one volunteer day per year. 2023 was the first year I worked there and I used my day to do my shopping for the family we bought for at the holiday through a local organization.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Apr 13, 2024 6:40:26 GMT -5
We officially get unlimited days off for company sponsored volunteer events, and there are quite a few. In 2023 I can think of 6 company sponsored volunteer things I did and I could have done more if I wanted.
Managers can also use discretion on additional days. I let my team do 1 personal volunteer day a year.
Post by mrsukyankee on Apr 13, 2024 7:12:05 GMT -5
Only if it's in the uni (volunteering as part of the university). And it would basically be me doing it during work hours - so instead of counselling, doing the volunteer thing. So, kind work anyway.
I used to work for a company that did this and I loved it. Sometimes a bunch of us would coordinate our days. We usually did a day at the local commune kitchen, but I think I looked into the animal shelter once and they had some availability.
I would find something that interests you and go from there!