On July 27, we hosted a virtual giving event to connect individuals across the globe and build business strategies for our nonprofit partners.

• Serve a Smile Foundation (SASF)
• Tender Grassroots (TG)
• Helpers Social Development Foundation (HSDF)

Our goal was to help these nonprofit partners gain exposure and raise awareness around the amazing humanitarian work they each do ahead of World Humanitarian Day. We also wanted to offer the flexibility to volunteer virtually, collaborate and meet new people, and develop new skills to grow personally and professionally.

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Introducing Our First Public Giving Calendar Event

Through MeaningfulWork’s Giving Calendar, we support businesses with an effective employee engagement strategy that builds giving initiatives into your workplace culture. Our platform allows you to select from a variety of in-person, virtual, and hybrid volunteer events with ease that align perfectly with your company's values and special days. Planning these events can be time-consuming and challenging, which is why we step in to curate your Giving Calendar and take care of all the event logistics.

Now, we’re looking to enhance our Giving Calendar by hosting short, one-time volunteer events that are open to individual volunteers. This Virtual Volunteer Day was the first event of this series. Because our goal was to reach as many volunteers as possible, making this event virtual was crucial and reminded us how important virtual giving is.

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The Challenge

For our nonprofit partners, their challenges included limited capacity, limited funding, and having a small operating budget. For all of the nonprofits, a key challenge was raising awareness for their organization and seeking for additional support. Participants were challenged to help address these problems and spent time to brainstorm solutions.

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What We Accomplished

Volunteers joined for an action-packed 90 minutes which included a keynote about the importance of virtual giving, non-profit speakers, and a team brainstorming session. Participants had the opportunity to collaborate with each other to develop fundraising strategies for the nonprofits and problems to focus on. The brainstorm activity left the nonprofits with more clarity as to how to move forward with the challenges they were facing.

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Impact Summary

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"Proud of the work being done at MeaningfulWork. Thank you for inviting me."

Alfred Ocampo

Accountant, BDO Canada

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“I was extremely grateful to dive into the challenges of raising funds to enrol more children in school. I was provided a wonderful opportunity ... to partake in a very well structured brainstorming session and propose recommendations and implementation ideas."

Hitesh Advani

Project Engineer, Powertech Lab

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Stay Tuned for our Next Public Giving Calendar Event!

Missed this giving opportunity? Not to worry. Our second public Giving Calendar event is on its way. For more ways to give back to nonprofits like SASF, TG, and HSDS, head to app.meaningful.ca and browse from a host of skilled and casual volunteer opportunities!

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