Does your Church need a new source of continuous funding?
Here is a remarkable solution for Churches seeking ways to partner with local businesses and solve their funding needs.
Many different kinds of businesses in the Dallas area (and nation-wide) are having difficulties meeting their entry-level staffing needs, and with the lack of progress toward resolving immigration issues, the need to solve staffing shortages will become more pressing over time. But there is a remarkable staffing solution which also generates enormous amounts of money for non-profits.
For the past 30 years, big business has reaped the amazing benefits of employing Volunteer Workforces. They've enjoyed access to a constant stream of ready, upbeat workers even in tight labor markets. This startlingly wide, deep, dependable and otherwise unavailable labor pool — composed primarily of all-American, freshly-scrubbed, well-behaved workers — has provided big business with a tax-free, benefits-free, and h#%%^le-free workforce solution. One business in Oklahoma saves over $300,000 every year by employing Volunteer Workforces. In this case, the word "saves" actually means "generates an additional profit of."
I began researching and writing about this in 1998, and CNNfn and BloombergTV invited me to New York City to do two on-air interviews about this amazing concept. From the links below (or on the website) you can view the clips. Also attached is a 28-page white paper with 6 Case Studies of businesses which employ Volunteer Workforces, and the non-profits that benefit from participating.
What's important here is that business doesn't have to rely on hiring people with uncertain legal status, or suffer when the labor market tightens. Business has access to a HUGE pool of energetic, enthusiastic, highly productive laborers — through a proven system, with a 30 year track record of success, which generates enormous amounts of money for non-profits, which almost any business can access if they do it right.
These Programs typically function at the lower end of the employment spectrum, usually generating $9 per hour (or less) for the non-profits which supply the workers. These Programs have been used in food service and retail extensively. They do not aim to replace paid workers, but to solve staffing shortages where paid workers are otherwise unavailable. Volunteer Workforce Programs are also obviously not a source of competition to professional staffing companies, which serve employers' needs by recruiting and placing permanent employees in technical or professional positions.
Especially given the lack of progress toward resolving immigration issues, I believe The Volunteer Workforce is the biggest business news story of the year, but so few businesses actually know this solution is available to them. In the Dallas area alone, home to thousands of businesses, there are just a handful of companies utilizing Volunteer Workforces, yet those companies spend between $3M - $5M per year, buying these services directly from non-profits. Your non-profit, and the business owners sympathetic to your cause, may benefit from learning more about this remarkable solution.
At your convenience, it would be wonderful to visit in person for a few minutes, and discuss this concept. Just let me know what works best for you.
Thanks!
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Tony Collette
214-280-9017 | cell
800-552-3135 | toll-free
972-692-5160 | fax
P.O. Box 1979 | Red Oak, TX 75154
18 miles south of Dallas
www.TheVolunteerWorkforce.com
MAKE MONEY | RAISE MONEY | SAVE MONEY
Want to know more about Volunteer Workforces? These two interviews explain how businesses and nonprofits team up, solve each other's challenges, and maintain relationships lasting years:
A Prayer for the Door That Was Closed - Your Daily Prayer - April 18
When we’re faced with a closed door, it might be beneficial for us to consider both Adam and Eve’s story, and maybe even cats, too, because God sometimes reveals truth to us through them.