Addicted to Philanthropy

As the founder of one of the largest team building companies in the country it is my job to lead the way, determine trends and find new ways to build and bond the teams of our clients. One of the many things that motivate me is the feedback that we receive from the companies and teams that we have helped. We really help make a difference in their work lives and help companies achieve success. That has been enough to satisfy me in that my chosen professional is a worthwhile pursuit.

While building TeamBonding I have blazed a trail that others have followed creating team building scavenger hunts and then culinary team building and by far the best direction that we have taken is philanthropic team building. As the title says, I am addicted to giving back.

Philanthropic team building for those of you that haven’t jumped on the bandwagon just yet is a combination of a team building event that builds and bonds your team and a community service component that gives back to those less fortunate in your community. Just yesterday we did a program called Operation: Military Care where we helped a company create care packages for our soldiers abroad. The event concluded with a soldier just back from Afghanistan who wrote and article about what it means to soldiers to receive these care packets. A powerful conclusion to a powerful program.

On the same day we built 84 bicycles at Disney and I like this story even more, The Boys and Girls club and Big Brothers and Sisters didn’t need the bikes so Jayne, our Corporate Events Manager found a charity that served Youth at Risk who have never received a donation of this kind and the representative cried on the phone when we told her what we were doing and that we wanted to give the donation to her and her kids.

We have story after story like this and it is addicting to our entire team from the facilitator to the salesperson to the client and to the recipient. I thought that building teams for the good of a company was enough to drive my passion but I was wrong. I can’t get enough of doing well and giving back.

This week we are debuting a new scavenger hunt that gives back to the community with Random Acts of Kindness amongst other things. We now have 9 programs that can help your team and the community. Can you feed my addiction?