Economic Growth Vietnam Project #4982

Skilled Volunteers Help Empower Vietnam Nonprofits

by LIN Center for Community Development

Project Report | Jul 2, 2015
LIN Promotes Skills Based Volunteering at AmCham

By Dana Doan | Strategic Advisor

Q&A Session

On 30 June, LIN co-hosted an event with the HR Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam on the topic, "CSR as a Human Resource Management Strategy". The event was sold out and attended by over 80 professionals, including the business community, INGOs, local nonprofits and academia.

LIN provided context by describing how different companies participate in skills-based volunteer programs not only to support the community but also as a strategy to improve business outcomes. Ms. Uyen Ho, Intel Vietnam's Corporate Affairs Manager shared a video describing Intel's community and employee initiatives, which are focused on education and environment. She also talked about the deep commitment of Intel as a company and its staff to its CSR programs and the benefits the company and staff receive from those programs. The third and final speaker was Ms. Hong Hoang, Founder and Director of CHANGE, a local nonprofit that works to raise awareness and promote actions to protect the environment and wildlife.

The event presented an opportunity to help companies to understand the benefits of skills-based volunteering while raising their awareness about LIN resources and program to help connect companies build more effective partnerships with local nonprofits. We introduced the VietnamCauses website - the only online, searchable directory of local nonprofits in Vietnam. We introduced BlueBees website - matching skilled volunteers with bit-sized opportunities to support nonprofits in Vietnam. We also pitched the Community Partnership Initiative 2015, which teams of 10 companies with 10 nonprofits to help them address their HR challenges.

Below is a link to the event description, as well as the two presentations by LIN and by CHANGE:

http://www.amchamvietnam.com/events/corporate-social-responsibility-as-a-human-resource-management-strategy/

Early feedback from AmCham was that the event inspired many companies represented in the room to think more deeply about how they could improve employee engagement in their own community programs. AmCham is now exploring follow-up events and is looking for more case studies from companies in particular.

Below is the feedback LIN received from Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Program Manager at AmCham Vietnam:

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for your very Informative presentation, experience sharing, great support, sponsorship and, more importantly, your precious time... I would [also] like to share with you some feedback from the event participants -

The most beneficial aspect of the event: 'Everything', 'Got more Ideas on HR Contribution opportunities now'; 'Leaning more about how other corporation Integrate CSR Into the staff curriculum'; 'Learning from Intel and LIN’s sharings'; 'Quality of the speakers'; 'Understand NGOs organization In Vietnam and how corporate conduct CSR activities'; 'Networking'.

Participants suggested related topics for future AmCham events:

Corporate engagement to development;
More on CSR/CSV;
More on employee volunteering; and
How to develop a learning culture In a company."

Again, thank you and I look forward to working again with you all In the future."

LIN, CHANGE and Intel at AmCham

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