By Le Thi Thanh Phuc | Volunteer Coordinator
On the morning of July 25th, LIN Center for Community Development (LIN) organized a Meet & Greet event for local HR profesisonals and their nonprofit counterparts at Hoa Sen University. This was the first activity of LIN's 2015 Community Partnership Initiative (CPI) program.
With the focus on "building human resource management capacity for local nonprofit organizations (NPO)", CPI 2015 matched 33 skilled volunteers to 11 NPOs experiencing human resource management challenges. The volunteers represented different institutions, including: Orient Software, GreyFinder, Decathlon, Puratos, Proself, Samsung, Kinh Do Corporation, Operation Smile, TalentNet and more.... Participating NPOs included: Thien Tam Huong, CHUM, Quality of Life Promotion Centre, Breast Cancer Network Vietnam, CEPORER Hoc Mon, CCHS, CHANGE, Huynh Tan Phat, Thien An Shelter, TOMAGO and Thao Dan Center for Street Children.
On 25 July, LIN hosted a "Meet & Greet" session for all of the participants in CPI 2015 - more than 50 people. The session was designed to break the ice and help to build friendly emotional links among the participants.
"Though this session, I realize how I can feel how someone is feeling. People who are unfamiliar with these types of experiences tend to have cold hands, while those people who are familiar to these activities, their bodies will be warmer", shared Mr Phu (Thien Tam Huong Organization)
A company representative said: "Through these exercises, I can see that sometimes language does not express what we want to say. By exchanging eye contact, or by touching hands, we can better express our ideas."
Ms. Le Thanh Phuc, LIN's Volunteer Coordinator and Manager of CPI 2015 explained that the intention of the session was to remove stereotypes and assumptions, which can prove to be barriers between participants who came from companies and those who representatives of NPOs. People participating in CPI will be better able to understand each other as human beings with emotions and thoughts. This launch event built a foundation for teams to listen, exchange and work together to find solutions for HR challenges within the respective NPOs over the course of 12 weeks.
LIN's CPI program was first launched in 2011 and has since become an annual program. CPI appeals to companies and skilled experts to lend their expertise to help build the capacity of local nonprofits in Ho Chi Minh City, so they can better achieve their objectives for the community.
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