By Truc Nguyen | Volunteer Coordinator
LIN’s CPI is a call to companies and skilled professionals in HCMC to apply their professional skills and experience over a six-week period to benefit the community via volunteer placements with one local NPO. LIN Community Partnership Initiative 2013 is generously sponsored by Intel.
Participating companies are provided with great opportunities to apply their corporate social responsibility, at the same time awarded public recognition. Participating NPOs receive skilled volunteer support in a core capacity area that most NPO staff says is their primary weakness. Moreover, the first place winner will receive VND 21 million, which can be used to address the communication needs of the winning NPO.
Meet & Greet event
CPI 2013 kickstarted on 27 June when participating teams got to know each other for the first time during the Meet and Greet Event. After a matching process facilitated by LIN, companies and NPOs ranked their choice, which LIN then used for matching the companies and NPOs appropriately and according to each teams’ wishes as much as possible.
6 week mentorship
During a period of 6 weeks, from 1 July to 15 August, each team worked to create a communication tool that address the needs of vulnerable children and raise the public awareness about challenges they are facing.10 teams have submitted their communications tools. More than 400 people voted for their favorite communications tools.
Please take a look at the amazing initiatives submitted by 10 teams here: http://www.linvn.org/?mod=content&act=view&cid=36§ion=volunteer&lang=vn&lang=en
Besides the one-on-one mentorship, CPI aims to equip the NPOs with basic knowledge about communications and beyond. As a part of the project, LIN worked with 3 companies to hold several workshops and a company visit focusing on improving communications skills for the NPO staff.
These workshops were open to non-participating NPOs who wanted to improve their skills.
Workshop 1: Basic communications skills (Read the article)
Workshop 2: Creating and promoting NPO video clip (Read the article)
Workshop 3: How to communicate effectively with donors
Visit HSBC Vietnam. (Read the article.)
The Award Ceremony will take place on 13 September, when the result will be announced.
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