June 12, 2007
On Wednesday, June 27 from 12:30 to 4:30 PM, Volunteer Vancouver presents an exciting learning opportunity for community professionals at its new offices at 1183 Melville Street in Vancouver:
Destination: Employee Community Involvement“Where is your company on the ‘roadmap’ toward Employee Community Involvement? Where do you want to go? How are you going to get there? What (and who) do you need to pack along for the journey? Promoting. Encouraging. Enabling. Explore the full spectrum of Employer-Supported Volunteerism and discover the many benefits to your own business and the potential impact to community at each stage.
Participants will hear from Community Investment Professionals from
TELUS,
Business Objects and
JDQ Systems. Each will highlight best practice examples of a range of employee community involvement initiatives, including: Team-building volunteering events; Professional development training (through skilled volunteer engagement); PLUS unique perspectives from their own journeys-to-date!
This event will feature a moderated joint session and three small break-out discussions (Participants will attend two of three break-out discussions). The moderator,
Colleen Kelly, Executive Director at Volunteer Vancouver, is joined by Community Investment Professionals & Break-Out Discussion Leaders Franklin Kiermyer, Director of Business Development at JDQ Systems; Pat Bjerrisgaard, Community Team at Business Objects; and Jill Schnarr, Director of Community Engagement at TELUS.
Franklin Kiermyer, Director of Business Development at JDQ Systems, will introduce JDQ System’s innovative model for community engagement, specific to small and medium-sized businesses – the 3Spheres of Reciprocity™. JDQ has just been named the recipient of the 2007 BCTIA Technology Impact Award for Leadership In Social Responsibility. This award was conferred on JDQ for the groundbreaking work of its 3Spheres initiatives. Franklin will demonstrate how JDQ has applied 3Spheres™ to organizational learning through specifically skilled volunteer engagements in the not-for-profit sector, focusing on the three spheres of helping, learning, and profiting.
Pat Bjerrisgaard, Community Team at Business Objects, will highlight Business Objects’ success with a range of employer-supported volunteerism initiatives. Pat will detail the professional development opportunities that specifically skilled volunteer engagement brings to their employees.
Jill Schnarr, Director of Community Engagement at TELUS, will demonstrate the opportunities and advantages of team volunteering experiences, as well as detail the TELUS Community Ambassadors program—where regional teams of TELUS alumni and current TELUS team members provide needed volunteer resources to local community organizations and programs.”
About Volunteer Vancouver
Established in 1943, Volunteer Vancouver has evolved into an organization that responds to the community through enhancing the contributions of volunteers by working with organizations to maximize volunteer involvement.
VV’s programs include customized training workshops on board and organizational development; scheduled workshops for leadership volunteers and executive directors in organizational management; BoardMatch, a program that matches individuals who have received basic training in board development with organizations who have also received basic training and Vantage Point, an issue-based online newsletter that provides comprehensive information on the voluntary sector three times a year.
www.volunteervancouver.caAbout 3Spheres
JDQ's 3Spheres is a philosophy and model for healthy, optimal, and successful community engagement. It is a paradigm for social responsibility and cooperative relationships grown from the fundamental understanding that we can all thrive by participating simultaneously in the spheres of Helping, Learning and Profiting. Ultimately, it is a model for other small and medium sized businesses to share best practices with each other and the community. For more information, please visit
www.jdq.com/3spheres
