Hackathon
Corporate Volunteering
Employees form multi-disciplinary teams to ideate solutions to community challenges in a fast-paced, structured corporate volunteering event.
This event is a short, pressurised process where ideas are designed, developed, deployed, and demonstrated, to maximise the impact of this skilled employee volunteering event.
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Foster team cohesion with for-purpose problem-solving.
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Engage employees to apply their skills in new challenges.
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Reinforce company values with a strategic impact for local causes.
Event Details
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Headcount
30 – 24 volunteers
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Delivery
Virtual (4 hours)
In-person (6 hours)
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Outcomes
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CSR / ESG Strategy
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Learning & Development
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Community Engagement
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Team Building
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Includes
- Coordination of for-purpose organisations
- Promotional material
- On-the-day facilitation and group activities
- Impact Report
How it Works
8 weeks out
Community Organisations
We’ll conduct detailed consultations with for-purpose organisations to identify challenges for your teams to ideate.
6 weeks out
Awareness & Recruitment
Gather interest with our help promoting the event, the causes in focus and the organisations participating.
On the Day
Context and Q&A
Employees hear the stories behind the missions of community organisations and clarify the challenge they are bringing to the groups.
Ideation & Scoping
We kick off collaboration by facilitating structured, multi-stage ideation. Groups then compile their ideas into a final solution and presentation.
Pitch Presentation
Groups pitch their final solution, with live feedback and questions from community organisations.
Let’s get started
We’ll work with you to find the ideal combination to reach your organisational goals and amplify social impact.
Testimonials
We wanted to do more of that skills-based, professional-based volunteering. The people who participated felt like we’ve been able to lend some practical support to community organisations.
It was really good to step outside of our normal roles, use our skill-sets and apply them to a not-for-profit. It’s opened my mind up to step outside my comfort zone to help someone else for the greater good.
One of my passions is helping unleash people’s potential. And this is a great platform to do it. Being a facilitator is not to come up with the ideas myself, but to enable others to come up with great ideas to create sustainable, positive impact.
It was a collaborative effort with real outcomes to real problems. I found the experience immensely rewarding, educational, and ultimately meaningful. We made a real impact on a medical challenge.
It was a great opportunity to connect with other Pfizer colleagues and really brainstorm a solution for not-for-profits. I’ve had the privilege to do it face-to-face and virtual . And I think they’ve both been very wonderful experiences.