Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 10:24:18 GMT
This Wednesday the work was presented: “Volunteering in Non-Profit Organizations. Manual for Effective Management”, by Lorena Cortés Vázquez and who writes these lines, Emilio Guerra Díaz. The University YMCA hosted this event. The presentation of the Manual was attended by Mercedes Aragonés y Ruipérez, President of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Center for Philanthropy and its Executive President, Jorge Villalobos G.; Juan Carlos Uriarte Amann, President of the Board of Directors and the ADO Foundation; the Mtro, Juan Baqué González, Rector of the YMCA University and the authors. To begin, Jorge Villalobos shared with the audience some reflections on the importance of volunteering. He pointed out that in Mexico, as in other countries, there are people who are motivated by various stimuli to collaborate and help to improve the living conditions of others. Thousands of citizens join a cause looking for the public good, but they do so more often individually. The manual that is presented, he said, is aimed at supporting people who within social organizations wish to structure their volunteer programs to channel that generosity in an orderly manner.
Jorge publicly thanked the collaboration of 25 organizations Phone Number List that participated by providing information, sharing their experiences in managing voluntary resources or institutions that require a large number of them to carry out their social action and of course he thanked the ADO Foundation for the sponsorship to publish the first edition of the manual and to the YMCA University for hosting. Next, Lorena Cortés, Director of Research at Cemefi, presented some data on the situation of volunteering in Mexico. As an example, she stated that the recently completed National Survey of Solidarity and Voluntary Action of 2012, shows data like this: last year just over one million 200 thousand people participated in volunteering, but only 17% did so in a formally constituted organization. . This data represents that 1% of Mexicans carry out voluntary service. Lorena Cortés expressed some methodological features about how the Manual was prepared, such as the review of other manuals, review of experiences, interviews and surveys with organizations located in different states of the republic. Later Emilio Guerra Díaz presented the content of the Manual.
When reviewing the index, he explained the content of the different sections and expressed that in his opinion one of the great contributions consists of the recommendations that are made to establish a system of recognition and retention of volunteers and explained that often volunteer groups do not have developed to the fullest extent of this resource, which in itself constitutes a reward for the volunteer coordinators since they will awaken their ingenuity to appreciate the contribution of their volunteer service providers. Considerations on ethical and legal aspects are also included in the manual. Juan Carlos Uriarte from the ADO Group, shared the objectives pursued by his Foundation and shared the experience of Corporate Volunteering. He indicated that his is a special volunteer service since its first objective is to help the company's employees to improve themselves. The program has 3 axes: Health, Education and Housing. Regarding the educational issue, he pointed out that this year the volunteering objective is to ensure that 100% of its employees, in the geographical area where the program already operates, have completed primary and secondary education. On the other hand, he expressed that his company recognizes the importance of voluntary participation, which is why it promotes this type of programs. Juan Baqué González, Rector of the YMCA University, expressed that reading the manual to comment on it that night “committed me a little more.”
Jorge publicly thanked the collaboration of 25 organizations Phone Number List that participated by providing information, sharing their experiences in managing voluntary resources or institutions that require a large number of them to carry out their social action and of course he thanked the ADO Foundation for the sponsorship to publish the first edition of the manual and to the YMCA University for hosting. Next, Lorena Cortés, Director of Research at Cemefi, presented some data on the situation of volunteering in Mexico. As an example, she stated that the recently completed National Survey of Solidarity and Voluntary Action of 2012, shows data like this: last year just over one million 200 thousand people participated in volunteering, but only 17% did so in a formally constituted organization. . This data represents that 1% of Mexicans carry out voluntary service. Lorena Cortés expressed some methodological features about how the Manual was prepared, such as the review of other manuals, review of experiences, interviews and surveys with organizations located in different states of the republic. Later Emilio Guerra Díaz presented the content of the Manual.
When reviewing the index, he explained the content of the different sections and expressed that in his opinion one of the great contributions consists of the recommendations that are made to establish a system of recognition and retention of volunteers and explained that often volunteer groups do not have developed to the fullest extent of this resource, which in itself constitutes a reward for the volunteer coordinators since they will awaken their ingenuity to appreciate the contribution of their volunteer service providers. Considerations on ethical and legal aspects are also included in the manual. Juan Carlos Uriarte from the ADO Group, shared the objectives pursued by his Foundation and shared the experience of Corporate Volunteering. He indicated that his is a special volunteer service since its first objective is to help the company's employees to improve themselves. The program has 3 axes: Health, Education and Housing. Regarding the educational issue, he pointed out that this year the volunteering objective is to ensure that 100% of its employees, in the geographical area where the program already operates, have completed primary and secondary education. On the other hand, he expressed that his company recognizes the importance of voluntary participation, which is why it promotes this type of programs. Juan Baqué González, Rector of the YMCA University, expressed that reading the manual to comment on it that night “committed me a little more.”
