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Becoming corporate volunteering ready checklist – team based volunteering

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This checklist supports Volunteering Involving Organisations to prepare for corporate volunteering, with a focus on team based volunteering days. It helps organisations consider readiness, roles, resources and logistics required to host corporate teams.

The resource is designed for organisations planning to engage corporate volunteers and aimed at supporting structured, safe and well managed team volunteering experiences.

Benefits for volunteer managers

  • supports planning for corporate team volunteering activities.
  • helps assess organisational readiness and capacity.
  • clarifies roles, resources and logistics needed.
  • supports positive experiences for corporate volunteers and host organisations.

How to apply this resource

This checklist is most useful when planning team based corporate volunteering days, preparing new partnerships with businesses, or reviewing processes to host corporate volunteer groups.

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Volunteering Queensland has for 41 years been the state’s peak body for advancing and promoting volunteering. It represents over 300 member volunteer involving organisations and support thousands more through a wider network, encompassing hundreds of thousands of volunteers, who contribute their time, money, and skills to the benefit of all Queenslanders.

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