volunteering

Celebrate our 2020 Volunteers

Submitted by SAcommunity on Thu, 12/31/2020 - 00:00

A short celebration of our 2020 Volunteers on the Zoom journey

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Learning Everyday - Niru's Volunteer Experience

Submitted by SAcommunity on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 00:00

Photo: Nirupama Amarakoon working remotely on an infographic for Mt Barker Council

A few weeks ago we bid farewell to our Connecting Up Inc. volunteer Niru. Niru volunteered with us for 144 hours from 13 September 2019 - 9 September 2020 and we are excited to report has moved into full time paid work - Congratulations Niru! We called this article 'Learning Everyday' because one of Niru's many great traits is a dedication to learning about and sharing new tech tools and training concepts with us and we asked Niru in her exit interview if she had any thoughts to share with the other volunteers.

SAcommunity, Councils, Statistics, Volunteers and Power BI

Submitted by SAcommunity on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 00:52

Volunteer Stathis Avramis with an example of SAcommunity statistics generated for councils

Stathis has been utilising Power BI to present and display SAcommunity statistics based on website traffic, service visits and categories of services for councils. The data can assist with decision-making and consultation with needed community groups in the area.

The SAcommunity Statistics page for councils can be found >>here

Please let us know if your council is interested in these statistics as an aid to community engagement.

National Volunteer Week 2020: 18 - 24 May Our Volunteers 4

Submitted by SAcommunity on Sun, 05/24/2020 - 01:59

Photo: Cheryl Heitman, Erin, Sophie Hood, Nirupama Amarakoon, Farhana Razeen, offsite volunteer Brooke Lloyd (not pictured)

The aim of Connecting Up's Volunteer Program is to support SAcommunity whilst simultaneously allowing our volunteers to see more clearly the skills they have and that they bring to us, by having a platform and forum where they can express their ideas for the service and demonstrate their talents together in a supportive team environment.

Our volunteers proactively use their abilities and those they learn from each other and share with us to support their local community in a meaningful way through the directory service.

National Volunteer Week 18 - 24 May 2020: Volunteers in Action

Submitted by SAcommunity on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:20

Connecting Up has collated several photos of volunteers to highlight 'a day in the life' of our volunteers and look at the activities the team participate in.

Particularly with regards to skill-building with many of the photos of volunteers engaged in Telephone Techniques Training to practice talking with presidents, vice-presidents and secretaries of numerous community services over the phone. Each volunteer takes on the role of either the service or interviewer to ask questions in order to update service listings and information. Our more seasoned volunteers are paired with new volunteers to improve or build on those customer service skills needed for volunteering and also for future careers.

National Volunteer Week 2020: 18 - 24 May Our Volunteers 3

Submitted by SAcommunity on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 11:00

Photo: Cheryl Heitman, Alexander Bull, David Webb, Flavia, Daniela Atanasova

Connecting Up Volunteers Wednesday Group
Every day, each volunteer group brings new and familiar faces, experiences, skills and backgrounds and new connections.

Many of the volunteers that join us on Wednesday are our long-term regular volunteers and it's with the help of our experienced SAcommunity team members that we are able to continue to induct, train and support new volunteers as well as maintain the directory, call and interview community services. We are only able to run our volunteer program because of their steadfast contribution to the whole team. Thank you.

Cheryl

National Volunteer Week 2020: 18 - 24 May Our Volunteers 2

Submitted by SAcommunity on Wed, 05/20/2020 - 23:35

Pictured below (L - R): Rex Porter, Alexander Bull, Edward Winsor, Farhana Razeem, Samantha Agius, Stathis Avramis Not pictured: Our offsite volunteer Malcolm and Lynn.

Connecting Up Volunteers Friday Group

National Volunteer Week 2020: 18 - 24 May Our Volunteers 1

Submitted by SAcommunity on Mon, 05/18/2020 - 22:20

Pictured (L - R): Lan Pham, Erin, Anmoldeep (back), Samantha Whillas, Audrey Menz, Farhana Razeen, Niru Amarakoon. Our team took this photo on 3 March 2020 before our volunteer program moved to Working From Home (WFH).

Meet our Tuesday Connecting Up Volunteers (and our Intern)
How time flies, we took this photo of our Tuesday Volunteer group a short time back on 3 March 2020 before our program transitioned to working from home using remote tools.

National Volunteer Week 2020: My Volunteer Experience

Submitted by Audrey Menz on Fri, 05/15/2020 - 00:49

Volunteer Week 18 - 24 May
Connecting Up would like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteers for their contribution to SAcommunity and community services in South Australia.

Our volunteers assist us to update the 15,000 community service listings on our directory in association with our council and library partners and editors across the state to help people, services and councils to connect with each other.

Volunteering Remotely with the SAcommunity Team

Submitted by SAcommunity on Mon, 03/02/2020 - 17:09

SAcommunity Team working from home (WFH): (Pictured R - L) Alexander Bull, Catherine McIntyre, Samantha Whillas, Stathis Avramis, David Webb, Nirupama Amarakoon, Edward Windsor and Flavia. Current participating team members not pictured include: Erin, Audrey Menz, Cheryl, Sophie Hood, Malcolm and Samantha Agius.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and transitioning to remote working
To comply with social distancing, many companies and organisations are transitioning to a remote workforce. This can be a challenge for those who have not managed a distributed workforce before.

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