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Custom Volunteer Projects
Empower Your Team with Meaningful Volunteer Opportunities
We want to help you create a positive impact in San Diego while engaging your employees in meaningful volunteer opportunities that promote teamwork. HandsOn San Diego creates custom volunteer projects that connect your company to the nonprofits, schools, and parks that need you most. We are dedicated to ensuring your employees have a high quality volunteer experience that leaves them wanting to continue giving back and working together.
Our Corporate Engagement Programs are designed to provide companies like yours with opportunities to support local communities while strengthening your team. Through hands-on volunteering experiences, your employees can contribute to causes that matter, fostering unity and purpose both within your company and the neighborhoods you serve.
Why Partner with HandsOn San Diego?
- Customized Volunteer Events: Whether it’s a one-day project or ongoing community support, we tailor experiences to fit your company’s goals and schedule.
- Team Building Through Service: Corporate volunteer events are a great way to build camaraderie, improve employee morale, and develop leadership skills while making a positive impact.
- Strengthen Your Community Connections: Show your commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) by giving back to local causes in San Diego, ensuring your company's legacy of support.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to schedule your next corporate volunteer event. Let’s work together to create a lasting impact!
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A few of our favorite projects
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Dinner & Game Night
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A small group of executives served dinner and played BINGO with individuals staying overnight at a safe parking lot. The fun atmosphere and conversations fostered connection and joy for the participants. |
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Beautification & Space Making
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Over 300 volunteers took to City Heights in teams to create community gathering spaces and re-ignite neighborhood pride by removing litter and painting murals. |
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Sandwich Sack Lunches for
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Seven hundred homeless individuals were fed lunch at 4 different homeless serving organizations because of a sandwich making project during a company's week of service. |
Great teams we've worked with
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Types of Projects
Be Social
Preparing and serving meals at a homeless shelter, tutoring underprivileged kids, hosting an activity for seniors, and more!
Go Green
Removing invasive plant species, monitoring birds, removing litter from waterways, and more!
Leave a Mark
Building playhouses for military kids, revamping a homeless shelter, beautifying a low income family's home, and more!
Assemble-N-Donate
Painting a mural to donate, assembling STEM kits for science programs, create dog toys for a local shelter, and more!
Corporate volunteering steps - making all the work HOSD and its partners do visible
Before a hammer swings, a shovel digs, or a paint brush dips, the HOSD team is cultivating relationships and recording community needs. Here’s what goes into the making of a corporate volunteer project:
- Knowing community needs: HOSD maintains relationships with more than 100 nonprofit partners to track community needs and potential projects
- Identifying corporate goals: HOSD works with corporate partners to determine group interests, skill sets, availability, budget, and impact focus
- Sourcing: HOSD contacts nonprofit partners to explore potential fit with corporate goals
- Confirmation: HOSD provides options to corporate partner, which selects its project(s)
- Agreement: HOSD creates a service agreement outlining costs and what each party will provide
- Coordination: HOSD is a liaison between the corporate lead and nonprofit partner(s) managing communication and needs to ensure a project that is mutually beneficial for all participants
- Volunteer preparation and communication: HOSD provides advance information, so the corporate lead and volunteers know what to expect and how to prepare for the day
- Supply preparation: HOSD finds, purchases, stores, transports, prepares, and sets up supplies at the project site(s)
- Welcome and orientation: HOSD introduces the goals, partners, and logistics for the day in partnership with the nonprofit team
- Engagement: HOSD coordinates tasks, answers questions, ensures supplies are maintained, and keeps the project on track
- Conclusion and reflection: HOSD facilitates conversation about what participants learned, how the project connects to corporate goals, and options for continuing involvement
- Clean up: HOSD works with nonprofit team to ensure the site is clean and safe and supplies and equipment returned
- Final report and invoice: HOSD shares highlights from the day and an invoice for final payment
Mutually Beneficial Volunteerism
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HandsOn San Diego believes that corporate volunteering is at its best when it:
- Operates at the intersection of real community needs, nonprofit capacity, and corporate interests.
- Honors the resources of all involved – time, money, expertise, community connections, lived experience
- Engages everyone as partners
- Offers insight into the cause being served
- Makes meaning of the volunteer experience
- Inspires ongoing action