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Custom Volunteer Projects
We want to help you create a bigger impact in San Diego while engaging your employees in a meaningful volunteer opportunity that promotes working as a team.
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 company's employees a high quality volunteer experience that leaves them wanting to continue giving back and working together.
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A few of our favorite projects
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Assembly Project & Mentoring
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Conference attendees had the opportunity to mentor local Girls Scouts through a STEM project they had just assembled, inspiring them to pursue STEM careers. |
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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