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Tuesday, March 20, 4:45PM
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USM's Net Impact chapter supports this event.
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Is corporate volunteering a valuable strategy for achieving increased employee engagement? Will community investment make you a better company? Is there a right way and a wrong way to go about it? It’s just volunteering, after all. In keeping with Maine's impressive commitment to volunteering, many private sector companies have indicated a growing interest in developing employee volunteer and giving programs (EVGP’s) and increasingly, corporations are being asked to become engaged in important community causes. Until recently, employee volunteering was often relegated to the margins of corporate citizenship. However, brought into the organizational core, employees can strengthen corporate citizenship from the inside of the organization, adding value as organizations nurture and retain employee talent. Brought into the core, employees strengthen corporate citizenship from the inside out with compassion, promising ideas and unparalleled energy. Many enterprising companies in Maine such as L.L. Bean, Tom’s of Maine, VERSO Paper Corporation, Key Bank, IDEXX and UNUM are already illuminating the way forward. By strengthening corporate citizenship, communities are strengthened and employees can advance career skills, gain an improved understanding of their community and enhance organizational culture. Employee volunteer and giving programs can lead to meaningful and substantive impact in the community and can transform social and corporate sectors if tapped. But how do you structure employee volunteering and giving programs to have a high impact? Explore the practices from examples in Maine that generate community and organizational impact, consider the drivers necessary to help organizations strengthen their corporate citizenship, and achieve effective community involvement and high impact employee volunteering.__________________________________________________ Dahlia D. Lynn is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Southern Maine (USM) in Portland and an Associate Professor in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. She also serves as the Dean of Graduate Studies for the University of Southern Maine. Educated at the Ohio University (BS), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (MA), and Florida International University (Ph.D.), she has held a faculty position at USM since 1996 as well as leadership positions at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her service to the profession includes her election to the National Council for the American Society for Public Administration (1999-2002). Her previous administrative roles include service as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. A human resource management specialist, she is the author of numerous scholarly articles, chapters and monographs. Lynn has served on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Public Human Resource Management and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. She has been and continues to serve as a consultant to a number of local, state and regional for-profit and non-profit organizations and actively participates on the boards of several non-profit organizations. |
USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer. The USM School of Business is accredited by the prestigious AACSB International. For students seeking the finest education and companies seeking the highest caliber talent, partnership, and educational opportunities, AACSB International accreditation is one of the most important affirmations of sustained quality in the word. For more information about School of Business programs, call 780-4020. |
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