As an ENGAGE Dubai Corporate or Community Partner, you can submit your project to call for volunteers. All you have to do is fill in the form given below to register. Upon submission of the online form, the project will be reviewed for approval or rejection. ENGAGE Dubai reserves the right to approve, seek further information on the project, or reject.
Once the project is approved, the submitted project will be visible under the section Volunteering Opportunities.
It is sometimes difficult to know what volunteering projects exist in Dubai and how to ENGAGE employees in the community. This page provides the solution as it allows ENGAGE Community Partners to offer volunteering opportunities for the corporate volunteers. The form below requires details that will help the ENGAGE Community Partners get volunteers for their project.
To register your volunteers, please click on the available relevant project below.
Working in partnership is a key principle for developing a community investment strategy. By developing a partnership, companies and community organisations can leverage their combined expertise for mutual benefit. Yet research carried out by the Centre for Responsible Business in 2012 showed that only 23% of Dubai-based companies involve NGO’s/charitable organisations in their community investment. Work with ENGAGE Dubai community Partners to make your community involvement as impactful as possible. Click on the Community Partners logo’s to visit their website.
ENGAGE Dubai owes much of its success to generous corporations who donate their time, energy, and talents to help our community. We are especially fortunate to have the support of corporations who send teams of employees to volunteer with our community partners. Corporate groups come with a cohesiveness and sense of purpose that make them enthusiastic and effective.
What is Employee Volunteering?
Employee volunteering is the mobilisation of time, talent, energy and resources of employees to contribute to the community. Most programmes involve staff doing work for the community on company time. When company employees volunteer outside of their regular hours of work, this is not employee volunteering. An exception may be when the company provides equipment, training or other resources to the staff to aid their volunteering.
What are the types of employee volunteering?
How could companies proactively encourage their employees to volunteer?
Start by publicising within the organisation the importance of giving back by informing employees of what the company is doing in the area of charitable contributions and activities. Encourage community service participation by rewarding those who do it on their own and providing outlets for others. Have a Volunteering Policy in place so employees know they have 1,2 or 3 days a year to volunteer. Have senior managers lead by example, have them lead a team challenge. Award ceremonies, employer matching programmes and an environment of concern for challenges faced by others less fortunate are all important.
How does employee volunteering benefit companies?
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What are the benefits of being a part of ENGAGE Dubai?
For companies ENGAGE Dubai can help through a range of practical tools and information on employee volunteering and can broker introductions to community partners and insight on the local volunteering opportunities.
For community organisations ENGAGE Dubai can connect them to companies enthusiastic to support the community and help provide them with potential volunteers, funds and support.