Value of Volunteering

Volunteering is a win-win scenario for business. There’s no down side to getting out there in the community and showing that you care about the things that matter to the people you count on to buy your product or use your service.

While your contributions, your support are vital to the services we can provide, volunteering allows the community to SEE you doing what you say you support. Now, of course, I wouldn’t be telling you how great this is without giving you an opportunity to try it out, right?

Labor Day is just a calendar page away and one of the biggest events of the weekend is Skyconcert. Advantage Health and HANK 97.1 FM have included us as the official charity of the event. Because 30% of Indy’s homeless is families with children, it’s our Labor of Love to collect money at the event to support The Salvation Army’s homeless programs. But we need a lot of help to take this message to the thousands who come downtown to watch the fireworks.

We’re looking for about 200 volunteers to help out by serving as roaming bellringers (using the buddy system!), bellringers at kettle stations, or answering phones at the Emmis Communications phone bank. Basically, we’re asking you to come out to White River State Park, hang out in the crowd, watch the concert, and help us raise all the money we can to end homelessness in our city!

Could your group benefit from a team building exercise? Could your message/your product use a little visability in the Indy market? We’d love to help you out while you help out our neighbors in need! Check out HomelessnessBites.org to see how you can help.

Volunteers Needed

So it’s time to fill you in on some details about our partnership with partnering with Hank FM and Advantage Health for Skyconcert at the end of this month. And when I say “our” I mean, we need you!

Our challenge is to coordinate about 200 volunteers by Skyconcert on August 30th. Our volunteers will have one of three duties – walk through the crowds with a bucket collecting donations, ring a bell at one of the stationary kettle locations or take pledges at our phone bank at the Emmis Studios on Monument Circle. All of the donations collected will benefit our programs to end homelessness in Indianapolis.

Volunteers will be asked to attend one of three open house training sessions on either August 16th, 21st or 25th. You’ll recieve an orientation, your volunteer ID badge, and your free event t-shirt. This is also when you can complete your background check – since you’ll be handling money.

Interested in signing up? Give our volunteer coordinator, Elizabeth, a call at 224-1010.

Labor of Love

When your family packs up the minivan for Skyconcert this Labor Day weekend – lawn chairs, cooler, sunscreen for the wait ’til fireworks – don’t forget to include a couple of extra dollars to help out a neighbor in need. Advantage Health and 97.1 Hank FM have invited The Salvation Army to partner with them at this year’s Skyconcert on August 30th. Yep, we’re the official charity of one of Indy’s biggest gatherings of the summer!

Although we’re still unpacking from Saturday’s Rally, we’re looking forward to our next opportunity to get out there in the community and share the good work of the men and women who serve others through a labor of love. (Our theme. Catchy, huh?) We’re planning on covering the area with volunteers who will be collecting donations to benefit our Homlessness Bites campaign to end homelessness in Indianapolis. Your dollars and change will make a difference in the lives of some of the 15,000 men, women and children who were without a home last year.

As we get closer to the event, we’ll have more details to share.