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National Volunteer Week: April 27- May 3, 2008
The Board Match Event Sets New Records
The Volunteer Center is pleased to announce that we have broken the attendance record for this event with 109 nonprofits tabling and over 600 candidates attending on Wednesday, January 23, 2008.
If you missed The Board Match event, don't worry. The Volunteer Center educates about, connects people to and promotes nonprofit board service all year.
The Board Match is an annual, job-fair style event featuring Bay Area nonprofits whose leadership are on hand to talk to interested candidates about serving on their organization's board of directors. The Board Match event helps raise awareness about nonprofit board service and serves as a point of entry into the nonprofit community for individuals who want to get involved with nonprofit board service, but may not know how.
Get connected to a nonprofit board of directors!
CaliforniaVolunteers!
Plug into The Volunteer Center and you're plugged into a statewide movement. The Volunteer Center promotes local nonprofit volunteer needs through a vast new network envisioned by First Lady Maria Shriver. CaliforniaVolunteers is the State agency tasked with promoting volunteering and service and features an interactive website - CaliforniaVolunteers.org - where Californians across the state can find local volunteer opportunities that align with their interests and availability.
"We are so pleased to partner with strong, local organizations like The Volunteer
Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties," says Karen Baker, Executive Director
of CaliforniaVolunteers, Office of the Governor. "As we work toward engaging all
Californians in service and volunteering, on-the-ground experts like the staff at
The Volunteer Center ensure that volunteers will find exciting, meaningful volunteer opportunities in their own communities."
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Programs
Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council
BACVC Awarded "2007 CVC of the Year"
The Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council (BACVC) was awarded the prestigious CVC of the Year award by the Points of Light Foundation at the 2007 National Conference on Volunteering and Service for its leadership and innovation in the field of corporate community involvement.
"The Corporate Volunteer Council of the Year Award honors the outstanding performance of member Corporate Volunteer Councils (CVCs)," says Reed Dewey, Director of the National Partnerships program for the Points of Light Foundation. "The award recognizes a Corporate Volunteer Council’s success in maximizing its operations, effectiveness and accomplishments."
The BACVC has been led by The Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties since 1986. While members range from large international corporations to small local businesses, they all share the same value in corporate community involvement.
Upcoming BACVC Meetings:
More information on the Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council
Trainings & Roundtables
For more information about Trainings and Roundtables
Emergency Preparedness & Response
In partnership with local and state governments and other key disaster responders, The Volunteer Center stands ready to mobilize and deploy spontaneous volunteers in the event of a disaster. The Volunteer Center is working with community partners to be prepared to refer volunteers in support of vulnerable communities.
Learn more information about nonprofit disaster preparedness and volunteering in a disaster.
Annual Events
Hats Off! A Celebration of Community Volunteers 2008
Hats Off! is a fun and lively cocktail party at the close of National Volunteer Week. We come together to honor the recipients of the annual Volunteering Awards, bring to a close a week of community outreach and let volunteers, nonprofit employees and corporate partners all mingle in celebration of community volunteerism.
Transitional Volunteer Program Awards Luncheon
The Transitional Volunteer Program assists volunteers with physical and psychiatric disabilities connect with the community, gain work experience and job skills. Every year the Transitional Volunteer Program hosts a luncheon to honor the individuals who participate in, contribute to and support our program.
The Board Match
The Board Match is an annual job-fair style event featuring dozens of Bay Area nonprofits whose leadership is on hand to talk to interested candidates about serving on their organizations board of directors. The goal is to provide a diverse group of nonprofit agencies with a large and diverse group of candidates from which they can recruit. The event serves as a point of entry into the nonprofit community for individuals who may want to get involved, but may not know how.
Week of Caring
In partnership with United Way of the Bay Area, The Volunteer Center facilitates corporate volunteers in making a powerful connection to community organizations and through volunteer projects. Each year Week of Caring mobilizes more than 5,000 volunteers from over 50 companies in support of 100 local nonprofit organizations.
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Ongoing Throughout The Year
Training for Nonprofits
The Volunteer Center offers trainings to nonprofit employees on various topics pertaining to volunteer management. View our online schedule to find out more about our offerings and how to participate.
Orientations about Nonprofit Board Service
The Volunteer Center presents quarterly Orientations about Nonprofit Board Service, free and open to all interested parties, designed to educate the public about board roles and responsibilities in order to promote and facilitate healthy governance for our community's nonprofit organizations. Click here for more information on how to get connected to a nonprofit board of directors!
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