Generalitat Valencia (Spain) - ENGAGE

Process: Once volunteers are trained done by FUNDAR, action is taken.

Proposals for activities:

• Preventing school absenteeism
• Entrepreneurship amongst University Students
• Penal Institutions:
• Workshops to improve employability especially through the creation of self-employment
• Sports activities
• Cultural activities
• Environment: Cleaning and taking care of rivers

The role of FUNDAR is to raise awareness amongst companies about the many benefits of well-structured employee volunteering and to facilitate the process, because in many cases companies are interested in employee volunteering but do not know how or with whom to develop it.

Evaluation:

Companies highlight the involvement and motivation of their employees

• Volunteers report that the program has allowed them to get close to social realities and to improve relationships with their colleagues
• Beneficiaries: 90% of the offenders surveyed confirmed that the program had met their expectations. 91% see it as useful for their future. 100% think that the participation of the volunteers was good (45%) or excellent (55%) and 100% positively value the relationship with the volunteers (73% excellent and 27% good)