VOLUNTEERING

Garavagno Laura

All businesses convey an image of them that will make people confident with their brand and make them like it. Volunteering is waiting by employees and very well seen by customers. It is always good both for your company and your consumer to see that you care about the others.

Pastries from Sugar Path

Moreover, like would say Michelle and Nina from Sugar Path : no matter what you give, you will always get back much more. Indeed, volunteering and giving, for example to association or group of teenagers for a campaign is a good thing. First of all, it will be helpful to promote your business and your image but also because you will be visible.Furthemore, it is a way to communicate and make you known from others. Volunteering can be a part of networking if it is done in a good way.

Thus, volunteering can be for business or just because you care. Obviously, it alo can be for both.

Honey from Sweet Begginings

Sweet beggining // Beelove

To talk about a an organization who does volunteering because she cares, I chose Sweet beginings a company of Chicago's West Side who extract honey from urban hive. This company allows people who have been in jail and for whom the reintegration in the working area is difficult, to follow a formation in honey production. They are seriously trained and coached, helping eachother in a peaceful atmosphere. They make honey, work with the bees and extract the honey. Moreover, they take care of the environement but also of the health and skin using  natural products. They are not only producing honey, they make soap with it, hand cream, body cream etc..

worker from Sweet Begginings

In fact, the Business owner of Sweet Begginings, Brenda Palms Barber, by volunteering, permits to ex-convicts to rebuilt their future and give them hope. Thanks to her, it will be easier for them to find a job and live in community as they  will be used to work in team. Furthermore, people who works for beelove don't recidive , that is the proof that volunteering can change lives but also people temselves, inside, their mind and make them someone better. That is good to know that companies like that exists and try to give the same chance to succeed to everybody. In Chicago especially, there is a lot of criminality, of poor neighborhood with people with poor education who doesn't have the same chance to succeed in school and work because of money or background.

Brenda Palms Barber

Brenda said :  “our jobs is to equip them, to work with them, help them, see who they are, help them to be undeniable.Volunteering - by definition - is to help people with your time or your money. You made this for love, because you believe in it."

Volunteering also permit to your employees to get involve in a charitable cause, that is a power to give happiness and  hope. Moreover, happy employees means happy customers. 

So, definetly, Volunteering brings people together whatever volunteering it is. People are always more attracted by companies who are doing volunteering and who care about it. And if you add to this the caring of health and nature, you have all the tools to attract the good customers, those who promote healthy food, healthy product, healthy life.. That is to say, in fact, all conscious people of this world.