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Tom is a senior executive with over 25 years of industry experience in strategy, product development, program management, and operations and most recently served as Senior Director, Global Strategy for Motorola.
He has played a key role in the development of the TVC's programs by sharing his knowledge, time and resources. Tom's guidance has allowed TVC to transform into a consultative agency and his work has helped TVC receive national recognition for the advancements with their skills-based volunteer program (SAVE).
Thank you Tom, for your sense of humor, hard work and dedication.
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THANK YOU
2009-2010
Americorps VISTA's |
The Volunteer Center is very grateful and would like to thank the 11 Americorps VISTA members for their incredible work at TVC and sponsor agencies this last year:
Asha Anne
Megan Bryant
Christin Coster
Michael Ewing
Lisa Kim
David Loda
Sheri Mau
Karla Micheli
Stephanie Precourt
Olesya Salnikova
Grant Shaw
About the Program:
VISTA members commit to serve full-time for a year at a non-profit organization or local government agency, working to build capacity, fight illiteracy, improve health services, strengthen community groups and more.
For more information on the VISTA program and how you can get involved, follow the link below
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Dear SAVE supporters:
Please accept our heartfelt appreciation for all your efforts in supporting The Volunteer Center in the development of the SAVE program. Together, we have successfully designed a new skills-based volunteer program that can provide support and hope for many overburdened management teams dealing with dwindling resources and rapidly growing needs.
During the past year we worked closely with twelve organizations, provided hundreds of hours of complimentary consulting and training, placed over 70 skills-based volunteers and initiated dozens of strategic projects. During this period, many of you supported us as we went back to the drawing board to standardize our approach and simplify our processes.
As part of our evaluation process, we will be asking our 12 charter SAVE organizations to fill out a survey for us to share with other SAVE organizations and funders. Any additonal stories of impact or ideas for the future that you would like to share would be greatly appreciated. Your insights as participants can help us demonstrate the potential of the program on both a state and national level.
We will continue to recognize our SAVE organizations and the wonderful work they do through future SAVE promotional materials and presentations. Even though our grant period is ending, we look forward to working with you as we continue to roll out and expand the SAVE program.
Sincerely,
Chris Smith
Associate Director
The Volunteer Center of NW Suburban Chiacago
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SAVE NEWS
ENG Adopts Little City Foundation
ENG members look on as the new partnership with Little City Foundation was announced
 | On March 18 2010, Chris Campbell, Executive Director of the Executive Network Group (ENG) introduced Shawn Jeffers, Executive Director of Little City Foundation as his adopted brother at ENG's monthly meeting. The two executive directors continued to engage over 200 senior level professionals, who are currently in transition, as they announced ENG's "adoption" of Little City. The adoption is part of The Volunteer Center's new skills-based volunteer program (SAVE). ENG members, whose backgrounds include everything from marketing to finance, will be volunteering their time and expertise in order to tackle three strategic projects. "We have 480 people who aren't working, who are all professionals; a wonderful way to occupy their time in transition is to give back through volunteerism," Campbell said.
Both Jeffers and Campbell think this new partnership model will not only be beneficial to their organizations, but also for other nonprofits across the country. Jeffers expressed that in helping Little City's programs, which include employment opportunities for people with disabilities, the ENG partnership is providing a "stimulus project" that assists the community and inspires all those involved.
* TVC would like to thank Tom Gaynor for making this great new partnership with the Executive Network Group possible* |
Trainings
Zurich Hosts Corporate Workshops
" The seminar got the wheels turning for me. It gave me a new outlook on how MADD can develop a mutually beneficial relationship with a corporation." - Mary Gall, MADD
Jillian Walsh, Director of Corporate Giving and Community Outreach, Zurich North America
 | On March 18, 2010, Zurich North America hosted two of TVC's workshops, Navigating the Corporate Maze and Connecting Nonprofits to Corporate Social Responsibility at their headquarters in Schaumburg. Jillian Walsh, Director of Corporate Givng and Community Outreach engaged 24 people from 18 nonprofit organizations. Other Zurich employees including Christopher Taylor, President Financial Enterprises, Bob Boyle, Vice President Procurement, Tracy Lampert, Vice President Operational Transformation and Jennifer Nowacki, PR and Media Relations Manager were included in a panel. Kathi Grummel, Director of Development at Susan G Komen for the Cure and Karla  Micheli, Skills-Based Volunteer Program Coordinator at The Volunteer Center also attended as panelist members. Both workshops were very sucessful and provided great insight into corporate social responsibility programs. Engaging corporate employees through skills-based volunteering, was one of the many highlights of the workshop. Jillian Walsh expressed, "At Zurich, we are finding greater employee interest in sharing professional expertise in the form of skills-based volunteering, especially from our Generation Y employees."
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| SPECIAL GUESTS: Community Media Workshop (CMW) to Facilitate Upcoming Lunch and Learn
TVC is excited to announce that on May 5, 2010, Community Media Workshop President, Thom Clark, will be presenting a special lunch and learn for TVC's member agencies at no cost. The first half of the presentation will give an overview of the shifting media landscape from a special CMW report, "The New News." The second half will focus on answering questions and addressing communication challenges faced by the attendees. This lunch and learn is highly recommended for nonprofit communicators-staff and volunteers responsible for telling their organizations' stories
Since 1989 Community Media Workshop has worked to diversify the voices in news and public debates by providing a unique mix of communications coaching for grassroots, arts and other nonprofit organizations and sourcing grassroots and community news for journalists. Connecting the community with media, the Workshop promotes news that matters. more about CMW
To reserve your seat, please contact TVC at 847-228-1320 |
Community Connections
DeVry Senior Projects
The Volunteer Center has formed a new partnership with DeVry University to help expand their Senior Project Program to our member agencies. As part of the DeVry University graduation requirement, all students in this class must participate on a team that works on a real world task. This senior-level project must accomplish a goal or solve a business problem for a company/organization outside of school. The academic majors include marketing, technical management, accounting, information systems or operations management.
The unpaid DeVry University Senior Project class lasts approximately 16 weeks (Oct-Feb, March - June, July - Oct). The teams (2-5 students depending on the project) develop specific scope documents that outline exactly the goals of the projects. The companies' supervisor(s) will keep in primary contact with the team and the professor, when needed. The amount of supervised on-site attendance and management is totally up to the company. There is no prescribed time allotted each week as long as the objectives are accomplished.
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| SCNO Northwestern Tackles Projects for 3 SAVE Agencies
TVC's SCNO Team
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The Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations (SCNO) group from Northwestern had their spring showcase presentations on March 11 for 10 nonprofit agencies throughout the Chicagoland Area. SAVE participants, Arlington Heights Senior Center, WINGS and The Volunteer Center were three of the 10 nonprofits involved. The SCNO teams offer insightful consulting engagements on a range of topics, including: marketing, fundraising and capital allocation, information technology, organization strategy, and operational management. SCNO 2010 spring semester groups took on projects to help market a re-sale shop, increase membership, analyze the needs of the senior community and more.
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NEWS & EVENTS
State and National Conferences
 The Illinois Conference on Volunteer Administration is a two-day, high-quality program designed for those who lead, supervise, or in any way manage volunteers.
The Volunteer Center will be conducting two workshops: 1) Advanced volunteer management insights and key findings 2) How to integrate skills-based volunteers to build capacity.
Where: Dominican University in River Forest, IL
When: May 13 and 14
2010 National Conference
 | The world's largest gathering of volunteer and service leaders from the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors, are coming together in New York City for the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. If you or your organization deals with volunteers in any capacity, this is an event you do not want to miss!
Where: New York City
When: June 28-30 2010
Early Registration Rates and Scholarships are available.
*TVC is proud to announce that the SAVE program will be presented at the 2010 National Conference for the skills-based volunteer track.*
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Case Study
JPMorgan Chase Summer Internship Project
More and more non-profits are turning to skilled corporate sector volunteers to support them through both loaned executives and pro bono consulting work. Corporate volunteers can lend the needed business analysis, revenue modeling and other business disciplines to allow nonprofits to deliver upon the 21st century demands and their donors.
In early 2008 JPMorgan Chase acquired Bear Sterns. In the process, they also acquired 100 highly-qualified and ready-to-work interns. However, the company had already recruited enough interns to address its needs. As a result, the JPMorgan Chase Public Service Leaderhsip Program was formed. This program re-directed the internship talent toward the financial and business practice needs of the nonprofit community. Students were matched up with projects that included business planning, strategic planning, finance and revenue modeling, marketing and research.
The interns tackled their assignments with the same commitment and dedication they would have brought to working in the Investment Bank. The results lead to a substantial cost saving for approximately 40 nonprofit organizations and city agencies that would have otherwise had to pay consulting fees or deploy already over-stretched internal resources, to accomplish the same outcomes.
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The Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago (TVC) is devoted to improving lives by developing, advancing and promoting community volunteer initiatives. Since its inception in 1969, the agency has supported volunteer programs through its partnerships with more than 150 social service agencies, schools and businesses.
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