Excellence in Community - Volunteering - MNC
1. Abbott Ireland
Abbott Ireland: sharing our talent, experiences and resources in our local communities
Abbott Ireland employees share our companies commitment to creating healthier communities worldwide. They give their time, expertise and enthusiasm to numerous community based initiatives. They aim to ensure that the opportunities available match both their needs and interests and their professional skills and expertise. Abbott is committed to ensuring that they continue to deliver programmes that create impact across the 11 locations where Abbott Ireland sites are based.
2. Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly Day of Service
On the annual Eli Lilly Day of Service, Lilly employees take ‘time-out’ from daily work to assist the local community to make a difference. The Day of Service began with a group of 12 volunteers in 2009 assisting Kinsale Tidy Towns. Since then, a wide range of projects have been carried out, most aligning with one of four themes: assisting youth, senior citizens, social interaction or the environment. In 2015, 150 people from multiple disciplines helped improve the community that they live and work in by constructing a play-garden for Kinsale Community Playschool, outdoor cleaning and painting the local Brothers of Charity Respite Day Centre for disabled children and building sheltered sensory gardens for the residents of Kinsale Community Hospital and also Belgooly National School.
3. Oracle
Sales Skills for Community and Voluntary (C&V) sector
A master class in sales and professional mentoring
The MasterClass in Sales with professional mentoring is a strategic multi-year project in Oracle CSR portfolio. The initiative was designed to be long-term, sustainable but adaptable to the community needs; its aim is to give a sustainable, replicable and long-term support to the community and voluntary groups. It also aims to infuse new skills and strengths in the participants to overcome current professional and sectoral challenges. This is a high intensity, high impact programme offering in-class training and business mentoring package in a Full and Lite format. The initiative is born from the sustainable vision of transferable skills and the inspirational Chinese proverb “Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime”, instead of “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day”.
4. SSE Airtricity
SSE Airtricity Be the Difference volunteering programme
The SSE Airtricity Be the Difference project is a volunteering initiative designed to support employees to give their time to a charity or local community cause. The programme is employee driven which ensures high staff involvement and appreciation for the project.. In the last year, 51 different charities / community groups were supported with many having several events throughout the year. This approach spreads the impact around several different causes in the community. As a result it helps to nurture more relationships within the community and touches more hearts by helping causes which are personal to staff. High participation levels and development of community relationships ensure that the project is invaluable to the business and will continue to receive support going forward.
5. Three Ireland
Employee Skills Volunteering for Virtual Community College
VCC’s goal is to eliminating poverty and social inequality through education using online and mobile technology. Three’s Employee Skills Volunteering is a bespoke volunteering programme for VCC that looks to address and support the specific needs of the rapidly growing charity. Three’s employees have volunteered their time and skills in numerous areas to support VCC to date, including; website build & design, social media training, virtual learning consultancy, copy writing, communications & marketing consultancy, legal & data protection advice, m-Learning advice and strategic support. The e-Mentor programme to support VCC students in achieving their educational goals is another great example of how Three’s employee skills are making a real and lasting difference to VCC and the people they aim to help through virtual and online education.
