Volunteer Center of Los Angeles

Corporate Volunteering

Want to Get Ahead at Work?

The VCLA Business Partners program offers expertise in community service to corporations by creating customized, hands-on group volunteer projects that complement team building, leadership development, and philanthropy initiatives. We will develop and coordinate all aspects of your company's volunteer project.

Our expertise includes:

Project Identification: We match your corporate objectives, including the type of work that you want to perform, the neighborhood you wish to serve, number of volunteers participating and timeframe, with the needs of a community agency.

Work Assessment: We develop a work plan outlining the project tasks and number of volunteers needed to perform each task to ensure that your project can be completed in the time allotted with the number of volunteers specified
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Supply Planning: We devise a complete list of supplies needed for the project and deliver all supplies to the project site before the project begins.

Project Implementation and Leadership: We lead your volunteers throughout the project. We give your volunteers a brief orientation, instruct your volunteers on what tasks to perform, teach your volunteers how to do each task and provide guidance from start to finish.

Project Results Reporting: We distribute project evaluations to your volunteers and compile a report summarizing their accomplishments, and provide you with the project results report and evaluations as well as photographs from your project.

We are constantly in touch with the needs of our city and have relationships with many social service agencies, parks, educational centers, and other community organizations. Our Business Partners program can offer your company a wide variety of volunteer activities. For example, your company can:

Paint a colorful mural for children living in a group home
Exercise your green thumb by planting a community garden
Make magic happen by transforming a playground through painting and landscaping
Go back to school and paint classrooms in an L A Public School
Be kids again and build a sandbox for children at Head Start
Be a role model for the day by taking children with special needs to a zoo or a museum

A donation to the Volunteer Center of Los Angeles is requested in return for the development and leadership of the activity as well as the cost of project supplies. This donation helps fund VCLAâ€™s year-round volunteer programs. The overall benefit of community service for the company, employees, and our city has made these activities a valuable part of the corporate environment.

Please contact Ann Burroughs at aburroughs@vcla.net or (323) 450-5056 for more information.

VCLA is the largest volunteer action center in the country, and a proud member of the HandsOn Network and Points of Light Institute, an international organization which inspires, equips, and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world. At the center of the network are 250 affiliates serving 83% of the American population and 12 international communities.