Education Foundation
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- We want Colleges and Universities to register as program sponsors at different levels
- Pass info to admission depts., teachers about the program
- Become dashboard users to get direct access to students reports
- We offer a unified badge system for ease of comparison of volunteering participation and reporting.
HOW WE HELP STUDENTS
The system tracks students’ hours of service and helps them building customizable reports for each event with a detail of hours spent in preparation, management, summary and reflection; event reports may also include multimedia attachments, to let students describe their individual approach to volunteering. For event leaders, the platform offers checklists with step-by-step guidelines for the creation and coordination of service events; it also includes mailer templates that can be used to promote a service event or to invite others to join. V&L delivers work flow task lists for the organization of events, for serving in an activity, and for reaching to business leaders to seek for support. We focus on transient students to help them connect, acclimate, and quickly on-board with their new academia. We provide learning opportunities that include finance, e-commerce, web design, IT data conversion and programming, English as a second language, public speaking, independent study, private instruction, team sports, performing groups, internships, and work study to prepare the students for life skills not traditionally taught in the current school curriculum. Students carry their profile from one school to another and maintain connections with former classmates, business contacts, and teachers. This is a valuable feature at application time when it is necessary to obtain letters of recommendation! V&L delivers an effortless, intuitive platform to support all actors in volunteering events and fundraisers, promoting leadership and service, advancing skill sets, and making connections that build a resume for higher learning and job applications. We make the platform interesting and self-motivating by delivering not only credit hours of service to their schools, but also assigning system badges for Leaders, Service, Business, Extra-Curricular Education, or Not School Focused activities. These tasks may be either locally organized by students or may span across multiple systems and be globally available for club members.
WHY VOLUNTEER AND LEADERSHIP?
Local businesses look to schools to provide applicants for volunteering work and for part time employment with the expectation that, once students graduate, they would have a pool of potential hires. 31 million hires between the ages of 16-24 take place in the United States every year. Businesses run charity campaigns every year, too. The labor force participation rate (the proportion of the population that is employed or looking for work) for recent high school graduates enrolled in college was 39.8 percent. Recent high school graduates not enrolled in college in the fall of 2017 were much more likely than enrolled graduates to be in the labor force (67.4 percent, compared with 39.8 percent). The labor force participation rate of youth not enrolled in school was at 79.5 percent (October 2017). Business will pay for membership services and event postings to attract students to their businesses for part time hire and full time hire once they graduate.
Volunteer and Leadership provides a fast track to get in touch with these students and young adults!