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The Volunteer Center congratulates the winners of the 2009 Bay Area Volunteer Awards!
Since 1992, the Volunteer Awards have raised awareness about inspirational volunteers, nonprofits and businesses who continue to raise the bar in community involvement. All 2009 Bay Area Volunteer Awards winners and nominees will be honored at The Volunteer Center's annual volunteer celebration, Hats Off! A Celebration Volunteer Heroes! sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
See the announcement in the San Francisco Business Times!
Corporate Community Involvement Award
The Corporate Community Involvement Award recognizes a business that operates an outstanding employee community involvement program.
2009 Winner: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Corporate Community Champion Award
The Corporate Community Champion Award recognizes the outstanding volunteer leadership and achievements of a corporate officer.
2009 Winner: Mark Edmunds, Deloitte
Community Spirit Awards
Sponsored by: Ascent Services Group and Wells Fargo
The Community Spirit Award recognizes the achievements of outstanding individual volunteers.
2009 Winners:
Priscilla Padilla
Dick Senn
Nonprofit Board Leader Awards
Sponsored by: Wells Fargo and Gap, Inc.
The Nonprofit Board Leader Award recognizes the achievements of outstanding nonprofit board members.
2009 Winners:
William Campbell, Larkin Street Youth Services
Gail Goldman, Honoring Emancipated Youth (HEY)
Excellence in Nonprofit Volunteer Management Awards
Sponsored by: Levi Strauss & Co. and Walmart.com
The Excellence in Nonprofit Volunteer Management Award recognizes nonprofit organizations that effectively engage volunteers in the meaningful work that they do.
2009 Winners:
Exhale
Reading Partners
The Volunteer Center
Celebrates National Volunteer Week
April 19 - April 25, 2009
National Volunteer Week gives us a chance each year to acknowledge the huge impact volunteers have in our communities, a week to shine the spotlight on all that they do to improve our world. To celebrate, we give the community a chance to nominate amazing individuals, nonprofits and corporations whose commitment to the community is outstanding.
THE VOLUNTEER CENTER ... LIVE!
See The Volunteer Center in action!
Articles from our Summer 2008 Newsletter:
Help a Local Nonprofit - Share Your Story
Nonprofits Help Celebrate Corporate Philanthropy!
Bay Area Nonprofit Volunteer Leaders Council
Learn . . . Connect . . . Get Inspired
Summer Career Explorers
Bay Area Volunteer Leaders Forum
September 26, 2008
BACVC: 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Members and Guests
NVLC: Noon - 4:15 pm Members Only
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Open House
A Convening of the Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council and the Nonprofit Volunteer Leaders Council
The Nonprofit Volunteer Leaders Council (NVLC) and the Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council (BACVC), leaders in community engagement, will convene for an afternoon of planning and then thoughtful discussion on the latest developments in the field of volunteerism. Participants will leave the day with several practical ideas or tools to put to immediate use in their programs.
Topics for discussion will include:
Skills-based Volunteering
Benchmarking Tools for EVPs
The Reality of Business and Nonprofit Partnerships
The day will include a joint Council Luncheon and will close with an Open House hosted by The Volunteer Center.
The Forum is reserved for members only, so join today!
Find out more about NVLC Membership!
Find out more about BACVC Membership!
Transitional Volunteer Program's Volunteer Recognition Luncheon
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
This annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon recognizes volunteers for their outstanding contributions to our community. Established by The Volunteer Center in 1974, the Transitional Volunteer Program (TVP) places people with a variety of mental, physical, and environmental challenges in structured volunteer positions supporting nonprofits in San Francisco. For more information or to help celebrate the hard-work of volunteers who participate in our Transitional Volunteer Program, by serving lunch to folks who don't often get the opportunity to be waited on, please contact Damien Chacona at 415-999-7183 Ext 234 or by email at: dchacona@thevolunteercenter.net.
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Programs:
Upcoming BACVC Meetings:
More information on the Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council
Trainings & Roundtables
For more information about Trainings and Roundtables
Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council 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.
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.
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."
Check it Out!
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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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