Reading Time: < 1 minute With the COVID-19 pandemic, are you now working on your Volunteer Continuity Plan? We believe the below videos and resources will be of help. On 22 Apr 2022, our Lead Thrive-Synergist has recently shared the Volunteer Continuity Plan he developed in SHINE Children & Youth Services at the NCSS Brown Bag series on 22 Apr 2022.…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I am excited to share 3 tools which have been developed and refreshed recently to help volunteer partnerships practitioners master the A.R.T. of volunteer management, especially in this post-COVID-19 world. ‣ (A)ttracting volunteers ‣ (R)ecruiting them, and ‣ forging (T)hriving partnerships that positively impact the organizations, service users, communities, volunteers and staff members. These 3…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Last Friday, we met up with social purpose entities from Singapore and across its shores to discuss Strategic Volunteer Partnerships in the post-COVID-19 world. Together with bantu, we: reviewed the state and potential of volunteerism in this new normal, looked at the current measures in place, considered factors to consider when determining the resumption of…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Begin to Thrive in 80 Ways Mental Resilience Handles for COVID-19 COVID-19 has not just brought with it threats to our physical well-being but our mental well-being too. We are glad to announce the 3rd edition of the COVID-19 Mental Resilience Thriving Kit (rather than survival kit). This thriving kit is our labour of love…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute With COVID-19 and the need to stay home comes the opportunity for us to further bond with our families. In keeping with our mission to help people and families thrive, we have put together a directory of family bonding ideas. You can search through the directory (http://tiny.cc/bond-my-family) based on e.g. ages, outcomes, preparation etc. You…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you are having a zoom call with yourself, what would you say? We all talk to ourselves but often, what are we saying to ourselves about the situation we are in and about how we feel about ourselves? We need to have a good chat with ourselves. We have developed the Self-Talk Audit some…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ultimate COVID-19 Mental Well-Being Kit Yes, we want to be useful during COVID-19. For 2 years, we have been working hard to help people families, organizations and communities to thrive for good, creating contents and programmes to grow mental resilience. And there is no better time than this to continue to make available our…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute With the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 as a pandemic and countries putting in place more social distancing and precautionary measures to curb the further spread of it, Emmaus Strategies has also reviewed how we will proceed with our programmes from here and we would like to also share some resources below. We will continue…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute We understand many may be wondering how they can best demonstrate the impact of your volunteer programs. As such, we are organising a half-day training on impact assessment of your volunteer programs. We will also share the outcome bank our team painstakingly put together for the Volunteer Partnerships Impact Assessment Toolkit with the workshop. If…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The ongoing community effort to prevent community spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus could leave many social purpose entities asking, “how should we proceed from here with our volunteer partnerships?” While the cases identified are non-residents and there have been no reports of the community spread of the disease to date, we should do all that…
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