Volunteer Hampton Roads

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Sep 17, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$385,779

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Encouraging corporate engagement- over 55 corporations are members of our hampton roads corporate volunteer council. We have met for 15 meetings over the past year. The council has hosted a back to school supply drive which donated 160 filled backpacks to at risk youth with a value of 7,200.00. The council hosted a career night forum for area at-risk youth, providing work force development assistance and guidance for 40 at-risk high school aged youth. The council repainted and repurposed a shelter kitchen during a saturday spruce-up event, donating supplies and manpower totaling a value of 4,140.00. E-wires, newsletters, and publications relevant to and promoting corporate social responsibility throughout the year totaling 11,500.00. Staff training, program administration, membership drive, and professional fees and conferences for furthering corporate social responsibility initiatives were executed throughout the year. Each december an annual meeting and awards ceremony is held for the members.

Activity 3

Promoting volunteerism and civic engagement- volunteer hampton roads hosts three, seasons of service days (sos) throughout the year, family volunteer day, the martin luther king, jr. Day of service and global youth service day as well as promotes volunteerism through the volunteer connection and handson calendar. Through the sos days, 1,309 volunteers donated a total of 3,927 service hours. Through those programs, 20,000 pounds of food were donated to twelve local homeless and domestic abuse shelters and the foodbank of southeastern virginia, 309 children's books were donated to local nonprofit organizations, two students received 500 virginia 529 scholarships and four environmental nonprofit organizations received a total of 2,000 worth of needed supplies. Total value of donations and time from the seasons of service days was 125,750.20. In addition to sos, volunteer hampton roads also promotes the volunteer opportunities of over 160 local nonprofit organizations. Throughout the year, our community outreach coordinator has sent 52 volunteer connection newsletters to over 1,000 community volunteers and 1,070 volunteers have registered for volunteer opportunities through the online handson calendar.

Filer

EIN

54-1072533