The One Thing I Have to Share:Special Interest Groups and Salam e-initiative

Ghani Ibrahim

Chief Operating Officer, Yayasan Salam (Malaysia)

Yayasan Salam Malaysia

www.salam.org.my

www.facebook.com/YayasanSalam

SIG Children, SIG Environment, SIG Marginalized Community, SIG

Technology, etc.

Structure :

Headed by a senior volunteer, a committee and interested members.

Selection of head and committee annually by members. SIG heads will

receive special recognition at annual VRC, and become LIBAS members

Committee appoints subcommittee and team leader for programs and

activities. A committee called ‘Nucleus’ to oversee long term programs

Activities :

Based on group interest, inline with corporate strategies

Assist projects by Hq

Create own projects/activities

Raise own funding

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Healthy competition among SIGs

Team leaders show commitment and try to out perform others

Brilliant ideas and proposals by SIG volunteers

Pool of talents, potential leaders

Produce brilliant reports by SIGs and teams

Social media as main communication channel

Strong sense of belonging to their SIG

Overlapping of activities / program (scopes and dates)

Resource scheduling become more complicated

Lesson learned