Boeing Exceptional Volunteer Service Award
Skills-based volunteerism occurs when employees volunteer their professional skills, experience and leadership capabilities to address the needs of our communities.
Boeing values both traditional and skills-based volunteerism because it helps build vibrant communities. However, this award is primarily designed to recognize volunteer efforts by Boeing employees who apply the skills gained from their work experiences to problems facing our communities because the application of their skills has the potential to exponentially increase their impact on communities.
The Independent Sector estimates that the average hour of traditional volunteerism is valued at about $20 an hour, while skills-based volunteerism is valued (depending on the skill) at $40 to $500 per hour.
And in a 2006 study by the consulting firm, Accenture, more than 75 percent of nonprofits identified "high order" skills as the single most valuable form of non-financial assistance a company can provide.
Examples of Skills-Based Volunteerism
Anyone can utilize leadership skills in a volunteer effort, whether or not one has a leadership role at Boeing. In fact, a volunteer can develop leadership skills outside of Boeing through volunteer service and then apply these skills at work - another bonus to skills-based volunteerism.
Apply Lean or Lean+ skills to almost any volunteer effort - there's no need to be a formal Boeing Lean+ specialist.
Employees who have gained advanced computing skills in their careers, but don't use them in their current jobs, can still apply those skills to volunteer service.
A volunteer does not need an official project manager title at Boeing to plan a nonprofit's fund-raising event - anyone with good organizational and project management skills can do so.