Children are the leaders of tomorrow. Yet, millions of kids worldwide suffer from poverty, forced displacement, conflict, lack of education, climate change, and more—they are experiencing real harm today, as well as long-term effects on their future success.
Looking for a better way to build a brighter future? This year, consider supporting Save the Children, which works in the U.S. and 120 countries around the world to champion the rights of the world’s 2.3 billion children. From responding to the biggest humanitarian crises, to building early literacy in rural communities — for more than 100 years, Save the Children has given children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm.
And the best news is, your employees can join its mission. Save the Children offers accessible, turnkey employee engagement activities that can be implemented throughout the year. Whether your organization is fully remote, hybrid, or trying to encourage more in-person connections, these solutions can fit any workplace and can boost engagement at your next key moment or event.
Here are a few examples of ways to engage:
Book your Ticket: Travel to Programs Virtually with Journey with Us
With many workplaces now remote or hybrid, you may be struggling to find employee engagement events that can engage and unite a virtual audience. Luckily, Save the Children has multiple captivating virtual activities, including the Journeys with Us series, which lets attendees experience its programs first-hand without having to pack sunscreen or bug spray!
In just one hour, your employees will see the impact of their support for kids around the world. Your event will consist of a pre-departure packet of interesting facts about the country, an immersive video experience with partners and programs, as well as a live chat with country staff. Choose one of multiple destinations including Cambodia, Colombia, South Sudan, rural Tennessee and more.
The Right Stuff: Kits for Kids
Sometimes helping kids means delivering critical supplies they need to support their learning and development. Kit for Kids provides a tangible, hands-on experience for colleagues to pack education or emergency kits that Save the Children will deliver to kids in need. Make the experience more meaningful by pairing with a Lunch and Learn conversation so employees can engage directly with Save the Children staff.
Build a Little Library and Culture of Literacy
Did you know that 60% of low-income households in the U.S. don’t have a single children’s book? Help build a culture of literacy by assembling, decorating, and filling little libraries to ensure kids have access to new, diverse books that promote learning.
Save the Children will send library kits and supplies to your workplace for your employees to build and decorate. You can then send the completed library to Save the Children communities or establish it right in your own community.
Tangible Team Fundraiser: Sponsor a Project
We all want to see and measure impact. Save the Children’s Project Sponsorship offering provides companies with tangible and time-bound projects to build schools, drill wells, refurbish libraries, train teachers, and more. Sponsoring a project rallies your coworkers around the same cause so they can see the collective impact of fundraising together towards the same goal.
It’s easy. Choose a project, set your fundraising goal, recruit your team, and fundraise towards that goal. At the end, you’ll see how your support helped fund a much-needed project for kids worldwide. Fundraising minimums start at $5,000 and you can sponsor projects in 22 countries around the world.
Co-Create with Us
Save the Children knows the best employee activities are the ones co-created and are able to tap into a company’s unique capabilities and culture to maximize results for children. Reach out to [email protected] if you’re ready to collaborate.
Don’t Wait! Plan Now: Mobilize around key moments in the year
Planning employee activations around key moments like holidays and company events is an easy and powerful way to enhance engagement in your workplace giving campaigns and rally employees around a cause.
Global Impact celebrates these days year-round and produces a free calendar you can take a look at now. For example, here are a few observance days that could be great to partner with an organization like Save the Children.
- International Youth Day (Aug. 12)
- International Literacy Day (Sept. 8)
- World Food Day (Oct. 16)
- World Children’s Day (Nov. 20)
No matter what day you pick, Save the Children has turnkey resources like videos, employee engagement events, educational resources, and more you can share with your employees to celebrate, including the ideas above!
Let’s make the future bright, together. To learn more about Save the Children’s Employee Engagement offerings visit its website or reach out to [email protected].
