CVC Fall Quarterly Meeting: Your Role in Community-Centered Volunteerism, How to Help and Not Harm

Your Role in Community-Centered Volunteerism

How to Help and Not Harm 

Leading corporate volunteerism, community relations and/or corporate social responsibility may often be seen as fun and meaningful work, but these roles also come with great responsibility. Leaders in community-facing roles may provide corporate volunteers with their first experience volunteering or serve as a guide or mentor to others as they find their passion in community service. With this in mind, it is essential that we as professionals keep community at the center of our work as we support, educate and actively demonstrate dignity, partnership and wholeness. 

Please join the CVC at the NEW Atlanta Community Food Bank as we welcome Chief Cause Consultant for Connecting the Cause, Breauna Dorelus, for an interactive workshop focused on keeping the community at the center of service. During our time, we will understand oppression in volunteerism specifically targeted towards Black and brown communities and recognizing when White saviorism is rearing its head in this work. We will also check our mindsets, intentions, language, attitudes and perceptions of service so that we are better prepared to contribute toward real, transformational change.

About Breauna:

Breauna Dorelus is the Founder and Chief Cause Consultant at Connecting the Cause, a consultancy dedicated to dismantling harmful volunteer practices implemented by organizations and volunteers specifically towards Black and brown communities. Breauna started her career as an AmeriCorps member and spent 10+ years in various volunteer management roles in humanitarian aid efforts, refugee resettlement and ministry. Breauna believes in community inclusion in all aspects of the volunteer process, and has dedicated her work to ensuring that service is centered around co-dreaming and not harmful charity. She believes that best practices may not be the best for all and that we must look at service through the lens of community-centered support in order to create a more just future. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in International Studies and a Masters degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management. She has two littles, Arteese who is 2 and Canaan who is 7 months and loves a good cup of hot chocolate. 

Other Information:

This workshop is appropriate for CSR professionals at all career levels. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. 

In celebration of the CVC's 30th anniversary, we are incorporating service into all of our 2022 programming. For October, our focus is hunger. Please join us in supporting Atlanta Community Food Bank's mission to end hunger in Atlanta by collecting and donating items from most needed item list. And, because we know you are a competitive bunch, we are excited to offer a special prize for the guest who brings the most items!