We are looking forward to celebrating National Volunteer Week this year. You will be able to take advantage of special opportunities at many local museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos all because of your volunteer contributions at The Grove. Details of the various offerings will be available in a few weeks.
Mark your calendars for Saturday morning April 29! The Grove is thrilled to offer a truly special event during National Volunteer Week. As part of the celebration of our amazing volunteers, award winning educator and documentary film maker, Michele Hoffman Trotter, will discuss her work during a breakfast meeting in the Program Barn. Michele will focus on the importance of science education and the spectacular underwater documentary she is currently at work on titled Microcosm.
Many of you were able to complete the recent volunteer survey and we are grateful for your thoughtful responses. You had valuable ideas and suggestions. Many of you asked for more opportunities to learn and socialize and we are working on providing those opportunities.
If you did not get a chance to complete the survey and would like the opportunity, pleases email Elizabeth.Cline@glenviewparks.com
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Second in a series discussing the benefits of volunteering
Volunteering your skills helps you develop new skills
In addition to on-the-job experience and a master’s degree, skills-based volunteering is second to none in developing skills that can help people get ahead. In fact, skills-based volunteering overseas has been called the next
Executive Training Ground. In our experience at MovingWorlds supporting
international skills-based volunteering programs for corporations, we have found that skills development in technical and leadership-related skill areas is the primary reason that corporations invest in these programs. There is plenty of research that backs this up, as we recently published in the Devex article,
Why Every Company Needs an International Corporate Volunteering Program. According to a
study from George Washington University, researchers found that
“…Beyond ‘stimulating new insights’, international corporate volunteer ‘programs are a better investment than businesses school leadership programs, both in terms of cost and diversity of learning.’ “
Reprinted by permission from MovingWorlds.org
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