Goodera enables corporate teams to volunteer for global nonprofits during International Day of People with Disabilities

Goodera runs its International Day of People with Disabilities campaign, #Building back better, to bring together individuals, corporates, and nonprofit organizations with a common objective of determining ways to find solutions for disabled people. And how we can create infrastructure according to their needs to make our society more inclusive.

December 3 is celebrated as International Day of People with Disabilities, where we recognize the day-to-day problems faced by people while traveling, communicating, or learning in school. One in 4 U.S. adults has a disability that impacts major life activities. It has sparked a growing interest in corporate volunteers to bring a positive change for them.

The campaign #Building back better - Towards an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable world enables employee volunteers from Goodera’s list of corporate clients to choose from Goodera’s curated volunteering experiences, schedule a time that works for them, and volunteer to make an impact.

“All we need is empathy, not sympathy. If I get an opportunity to speak to a donor, I would rather ask them to support our other social enterprise which promotes different kinds of services and products. And by supporting it, you are supporting the livelihood of many people. ” says Stevens Chan, Founder, SOS Missions Malaysia. “I believe we are making a big difference in their lives. Yeah, it's easy to give money, but to support them by accepting them and looking at them as friends makes a huge difference.”

As part of the initiative, Goodera partnered with 8 nonprofits that work to ease the lives of people with disabilities, to:

- Design 15 different virtual volunteering opportunities for corporate volunteers. These experiences ranged from creating flashcards for children with disabilities to translating audio and visual content making information accessible to all. Other activities include learning sign language and recording inspirational messages to create current affair audio guides for people with vision loss.

- Raise voices of the nonprofits and their cause. Goodera interacted with the Nonprofits through exclusive interviews and panel discussions to highlight the issues and derive a solution. The discussions are featured on Goodera’s platforms.

Three-fourths of the 8 nonprofits we collaborated with have shown outstanding results, with 52 volunteer hours booked within three days of launching the campaign. Half of those nonprofits achieved their funding target through the Dollars of Doers program, making it very successful.

“I want people to understand that people with disabilities often have the same level of skills- musical or otherwise, as those without disabilities. And I also want people to promote a barrier-free environment. You can join forces with existing organizations, which is what I know that Goodera is already doing, building that bridge to organizations and amplifying what's being done already,” says Masaaki Horie, Founder, NPO Canvas. “ By a barrier-free environment, I mean that there should be a better, more inclusive social infrastructure where people with disabilities do not get left behind.”

Encouraged by the success of the #BuildingBackBetter campaign, Goodera has already launched its portfolio of events for corporates for January to focus on the International Day of Education and MLK Day.

About Goodera:

Postal Address: Goodera, 400 Concar Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402, United States
Email Address: pratham.kashyap@goodera.com

Goodera is an employee volunteering, CSR, and ESG management company that enables corporations, foundations, governments, nonprofits, and employees across 90+ countries. Goodera empowers companies to provide impactful virtual volunteering experiences to their employees globally and achieve volunteering goals.

Through curated volunteering opportunities, end-to-end program management, and impact measurement, Goodera offers a seamless volunteering experience. Goodera enables non-profits to create a sustainable impact by raising money, increasing visibility, and building long-term volunteers for causes they support. Goodera is co-headquartered in San Mateo, CA, and Bangalore, India. For more details, please visit https://goodera.com/us/non-profit/

This release was published on openPR.