Points of Light’s Corporate Institute has delivered and designed hundreds of training seminars at the national, regional, state and local levels. Our training team represents true practitioners with tactical, innovative and field based experience on a number of topics affecting corporate volunteer programs and community and employee engagement.
We assess, develop, and create trainings that will increase the strategic value of corporate volunteer programs. We specialize in live, web-based, group and individual trainings. Trainings can be customized to fit organizational needs or companies may choose from a variety of standard out the box trainings including:
- Six Steps to Establishing a Corporate Skills-Based and Pro Bono Volunteer Program
- Developing Excellence in Employee Volunteer Programs
- Developing Corporate Service Leaders
- Managing Employee Volunteer Programs to Build Value for Business
- Building Partnerships That Work: NPO’s and Business Volunteers
- Measuring Program Outcomes for Your Employee Volunteer Program
Additionally, our success in delivering and organizing employee volunteer leader trainings, month of service and signature event trainings, as well as customized trainings will help scale the impact of your Employee Volunteer Program, engage stakeholders, promote activities and train employees.
Examples of a few of our training partners
Customized Program Support and Service Leader Trainings
Points of Light and UBS have partnered together for four years, creating high-impact employee volunteer projects in key UBS communities during their Community Engagement Month. To support their community engagement and marketing goals, our Corporate Institute team has designed and delivered webinars to support UBS employees in multiple markets. The webinar trainings are designed to equip employees with the tools and resources they need to manage Community Engagement Month projects in their local communities.
The trainings are supported by a customized toolkit and reinforce areas such as identifying nonprofit partners, project design and implement, volunteer recruitment and engagement, and evaluation.
Customized Employee Engagement Trainings
For three consecutive years, Points of Light has designed and delivered customized interactive webinars for Morgan Stanley employees. The trainings are designed to encourage employees to become active and engaged during Morgan Stanley’s Global Month of Service. The annual webinar series provides an opportunity for employees that aren’t able to leave the office to volunteer with an opportunity participate in volunteer professional development at their desks. Participation in the series counts towards their volunteer hours and has proved quite successful with attendance numbers of over 300 attendees.
Customized Program Development Trainings
Points of Light’s Corporate Institute designed and delivered a customized in person two-day workshop for 25 Southwest Gas associates from across the country. The workshop training was designed to support the development of Southwest Gas’ formalized Employee Volunteer Program (EVP).
Points of Light worked closely with Southwest Gas on a number of consulting items to inform the training including deployment and analysis of an all employee survey, steering committee support, assessment of current employee volunteer practices and general advice and recommendations.
The workshop training provided attendees with our professional assessment and counsel, EVP practices, recommendations and teachings. As a result of the workshop, Southwest Gas launched a steering committee to guide the development and deployment of their EVP program; outlined their EVP goals and impact areas; defined potential policies to support the EVP; and identified challenges, road blocks and opportunities.