Leverage Volunteers More Effectively

SERVICE ENTERPRISE

June 2019, the Volunteer Center of South Jersey was designated as a Service Enterprise Hub.

Service Enterprises experience a 23 percent increase in volunteers annually,

representing $63,000 in valued labor.

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WHAT IS SERVICE ENTERPRISE?

A change management approach that helps organizations more effectively leverage volunteers and their skills, increasing their return on volunteer investment to to meet their missions.

Fostering a Culture of Volunteerism

The goal of the Service Enterprise Initiative is to strengthen the capacity of organizations to strategically and effectively engage volunteers to address community needs.

A Service Enterprise is an organization that doesn’t just engage volunteers, but operates with a culture of volunteerism that enables it to fundamentally leverage volunteers and their skills to achieve its social mission. These high-performing organizations have deeply integrated volunteers into their strategic plan and day-to-day operations, thereby allowing them to reduce costs and increase efficiency and effectiveness in providing services to fulfill their mission.

A Service Enterprise Hub leads cohort(s) of organizations through a prescribed training and coaching process to build their capacity to operate in this way.

Ultimately, becoming a Service Enterprise organization will give you the ability to look at internal staff capacity in a new way and leverage skilled volunteers to expand that capacity to achieve your mission. A nationally certified Service Enterprise organization typically benefits from:

  • Outperforming similar organizations on all measures of organizational capacity
  • Increased human resource capacity with limited additional expense
  • Significant increase in volunteer hours contributed annually
  • Retooled operations that intentionally use skilled volunteers
  • Community needs better addressed through organizational growth
  • Ability to take programs to scale
  • VCSJ and Service Enterprise Trainers help organizations realize these benefits through assessment, training, and coaching.