Empower and Elevate: Champions Program in Your Organization

Unlock the full potential of your corporate volunteering with an empowered Champions Program. This insightful webinar features industry leaders sharing practical guidance on launching, scaling, and engaging volunteer champions within your organization. Learn how to train and retain champions, foster a culture of service, and amplify your social impact through dedicated volunteer leadership.

What You’ll Learn:
1. The critical role of champions in driving year-round employee engagement.
2. Strategies for identifying, onboarding, and training champions effectively.
3. Real-world examples from Tik Tok, NBC Universal, and Apple’s volunteering programs.
4. How to integrate champions into your CSR and DEI initiatives for broader impact.
5. Communications, recognition, and retention tactics to sustain champion enthusiasm.

Key Highlights:
Virginia Tenpenny (Gideon): Emphasized the business case for champions programs as essential for broad and sustained volunteer engagement.

Ufuoma Konadu (TikTok): Shared how TikTok’s young champions network of 30+ supports global employee volunteering across 25 regions using virtual and hybrid formats.
Champions act as local connection points to nonprofits, driving participation and deeper engagement.

Hilary Smith (NBCUniversal): Described a mature program with 12,000+ volunteers and layered employee engagement including ambassadors, board service, and pro bono consulting.
Ambassadors expand reach, plan localized events and serve as key liaisons with nonprofits. Training is comprehensive and ongoing.

Charlotte Payton (Former Apple): Shared journey of building Apple’s champions program from scratch to 850+ global leaders supporting 3,500 events annually.
Champions empower decentralized leadership, ensure local relevance, and sustain program growth through training and community-building.

You Can Further Look Into:
Annual Volunteering Plan Template 2025 - A detailed framework for planning, executing, and measuring your corporate volunteering strategy. https://www.goodera.com/ebook/annual-...
Global Volunteering Summit 2026 - Join an exclusive gathering of social impact leaders to innovate and expand volunteering efforts. https://www.goodera.com/global-volunt...

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