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Visiting
a Business/Volunteering
Description
You will spend a ½ day volunteering your services and time at a business
or charity organization and then prepare a business profile about the
place where you volunteered. You are encouraged to either work in your
neighbourhood, community group or small business. You should spend at
least 3 or 4 hours volunteering with a focus to understand how the
business operates. You may also form small groups with other classmates
and volunteer together (the business profiles will need to be individual
however).
Ideas of where to volunteer
· Returning to the service organization
you worked with on the Gr. 11 service trip
· Sorting clothes at Goodwill or sorting
food at your local food bank
· Volunteering at your church
· Entering data at a computer-type
business
· Helping out at a friend/ neighbour or
relative’s small business
· Volunteering at a school you attended
from K to Gr. 8
· Visiting the people at a retirement
home
· Helping out at a
local corner store, hair salon, sporting good store or restaurant
· Any other idea that is discussed with
your teacher!
Business Profile & Self-evaluation
Ask the person who supervised you
directly to sign the letter given to you by your teacher. Prepare a
business profile presentation so we can hear about different types of
businesses, or a different take on similar businesses. Presentations are
separate even if you worked at the same place as another student.
Your presentation includes:
1) Description of the Business/organization you volunteered at (you may
wish to copy these questions and type a response):
a) Give a brief description of the business (purpose; mission statement;
for profit; not-for profit).
b) Is the business service-based, product-based or a combination of the two?
c) Outline the employee structure at this business (who does what; who
reports to whom).
d) Explain the marketing strategy used by the business to promote the
business, the products, the services and/or the community impact.
e) What environmental or social justice concerns involves
this particular business or the industry in general? Give details.
2) What did you learn on your visit to this business/organization? Would
you be interested in working here or managing a similar business of your
own? Why/Why not? How could you have improved how you set up this visit
and how you worked there? Feel free to discuss anything else that you
noticed about the business.
Evaluation Rubric [Open Office]
Evaluation Rubric [MS Word]
Sample Letter (provided by your teacher)
To Whom It May Concern:
RE: Volunteer opportunities
The business students at Toronto District Christian High School have been asked
to spend their project day volunteering their services. They are
encouraged to either work at a non-profit organization or to volunteer
their time in their neighbourhood, community group or small business.
They will be preparing a business profile of the place where they worked.
I would appreciate it if you could supervise a student(s) in their
volunteer work, and sign this letter to verify their involvement for at
least three to four hours. They are encouraged to do any work or service
that you need completed.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact me.
Email: burridge@tdchristian.ca. School: 905-851-1772.
Yours truly,
Michelle Burridge, Business Teacher, TDCH.
Student’s Name: __________________________. Date: __________________
Organization/Host’s name: __________________________________________
Number of hours worked: ________. Host’s signature: ___________________
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