Turning Volunteers into Long-term

Advocates

Dream A Dream

Developing Life Skills

Life Skills are defined as"the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life".

Nurturing and fostering young people’s ability to creatively respond to the frantic pace of change in the world

About Dream A Dream• Dream A Dream is an award-winning,

professional, registered, charitable trust. • Empowering over 50,000 children and

young people from vulnerable backgrounds since 1999.

• Currently, – Developing life skills amongst 8000 young

people referred from 24 partners – Training over 500 teachers and adult workers

from 18 partners across 3 states of India thus enabling impact on 50,000 young people

– Sensitizing over 2000 volunteers through our unique Life Skills Development model

Programme Offerings

After School Life Skills Programmes (8-14 year olds)• Sports• Creative Arts• Outdoor

Experiential Camps

• Innovation Lab

Sensitizing the Community• Active

Volunteering• Mentoring

Dream Connect (14-19 year olds)• Short-term Skill

Development• Computer education• Financial literacy• Communication Skills• Career Guidance• Scholarships• Internships

Teacher Development• Exploring your

creativity• Understanding

the child• Developing Life

Skills• Life Skills

Facilitation

Theory of Change

Lack of Awareness Awareness Action Change

making

Volunteer Engagement Approach

Create Awareness

Engage volunteers to take Action

Be Changemakers

UNIVERSE

Volunteer Engagement

The 4 I’s and 1 C to convert volunteers into long-term advocates:• Invest in volunteers• Involve them in leadership roles• Inspire them to inspire others• Identify and Acknowledge them• Communicate actively and proactively

Corporate volunteeringDream A Dream corporate engagement involves:• Aligning corporate volunteering vision OR Co-creating the

vision • Creating and motivating a core group of volunteer champions• Introducing volunteering to new corporates through fun,

creative and interactive mediums • Employee matching to fundraise through corporate

volunteering• Involving employees in pro-bono services • In 2013-14, 17 corporates have engaged 1413 volunteers

clocking 5872 hours

The Dell India Success Story

Volunteer Life Cycle at Dell

Understand the Issue –

One off volunteering

Deepen Engagement – Mentoring and Camps

Leadership and

Champion the Cause

Act for Change, lead

Initiatives, Inspire Others

From Awareness to ChangemakingDell and Dream A Dream

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No. of Volunteers Hours Contributed

Volunteer Champions DELL India

“The Dream a Dream style of volunteering is what drew me to it. They focus more on potential and what can be rather than the poverty that these kids face. Volunteering with Dream A Dream has made me stronger, and face life with a smile. It’s like a well written book that makes you want to read more and keep turning the page. I don’t want to stop with volunteering for just one event. I want to do more.”

“I volunteer because I believe that change can happen only when you are a part of it. When an underprivileged kid from a broken home, says, “Akka, when I grow up, I will mentor more children just like you”; I see my motto “I want to be the change I see”, taking shape.

Phebega Pericho was nominated and selected as the Top 10 in Volunteer Hero category of the iVolunteer Awards 2012. She inspired over 500 DELL employees to volunteer, mentored a young person and was the brain behind many new volunteering initiatives at DELL 5. She also runs her own NGO.

Volunteer Champions DELL India

“There are many NGOs working on making a short term difference but very few NGOs make permanent difference in someone’s life and Dream A Dream is one of them. Dream A Dream has identified the need of life skills to vulnerable kids and it is making a permanent change in them.”

Ajit Patil, a volunteer champion for over 4 years at DELL has been instrumental in motivating employees at DELL to move beyond awareness and get into action and changemaking.

How would you like to build volunteer champions?

Questions?

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