Finding the Time to Volunteer
Volunteering; a path to a stronger community, and supporting the nearby needy. To quote the old saying, charity begins at home. However, scheduling this is often fairly tricky, and before you know it you don’t have as long at your disposal to actually do some good. That is why companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut whose financial and shopping benefits programs, including Your Savings Club, help to enrich consumers, have stepped up as organizing points which co-ordinate volunteer activity and help employees make time for reaching out.
If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, perhaps a Christmas call for donations, but that’s simply no longer true. Running shoe recycling programs and more active work like tree planting events — these are just some of the activities that have been arranged for its workforce by Adaptive Marketing. With all relevant information — date, location, time, specifics of event, etc — displayed in advance it is a simple matter for staff members to set aside the time they’d volunteer and how they’d be using it.
It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no choice between initiatives. Employees of Adaptive Marketing choose from among many volunteer programs. Prior projects have seen improvements made in a wide variety of areas including help and support for children and young adults, green awareness activities, and events helping local theatre. A volunteer who enjoys himself is an effective volunteer, and as a result by providing so many initiatives Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress can be made in a great many areas. Typically a company sponsored charity program — getting involved with a homeless shelter or helping out at a local school — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. There may be people who say they haven’t the time, but even they can arrange the public library’s used book sale or a Saturday morning park clean-up.
It’s common practice for companies to help out the people living around their premises. The activities of the staffers at firms such as Adaptive Marketing create important goodwill in their home town. Another aspect is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is feeling better about yourself — a positive feeling that leaves not just the staffer but the whole company more upbeat. Setting out to help employees become volunteers rewards everyone involved.
Avista Invests in Frontier
In 2006, New York private equity firm Avista Capital Partners entrusted a million-dollar investment to Frontier Drilling Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries. The amount served as Avista Capital Partners’ act of support for Frontier’s attainment and restoration of the Transocean Explorer, a semi-submersible drilling rig that can drill in deep waters of up to 1,250 feet.
Frontier Drilling is a Houston, Texas-based, independent, worldwide supplier of offshore construction and drilling assistances for oil businesses. It aims in managing and operating offshore floating construction vessels as well as drilling rigs. Avista Capital Partners initially invested $20 million and guaranteed an additional amount of $7 million.
The firm’s co-managing associate, Steven Webster, said that the investment made by Avista Capital Partners signified an opportunity to take advantage of the large-scale scarcity of offshore drilling rigs, especially since there has been growth in global gas and oil exploration.
Frontier Drilling USA Inc’s chief executive officer, Robert Fulton, stated that the company is excited to team up with Avista Capital Partners. The Avista Capital group, he said, has a solid investment record and knowledge about the energy sector ensuring Frontier and its investors better value and services.
Avista Capital Partners is a company focusing in private equity investments. It predominantly focuses on growth-oriented healthcare, media, and energy companies.