Starting last Friday, we’ve been sending out emails to friends and networks to announce the opening of enrollment into the Volans Year program. Please feel free to use this email template below to spread the word! For a list of Volans Year positions available within our outstanding list of hiring organizations, click here.
Dear [friend’s name],
You care deeply about the complex problems facing our world. Passionate about finding solutions, you drive results through business innovation. You are a strategic thinker who makes an impact. Volans Year is a new program that leverages the drive and talent of passionate, highly-skilled professionals like you to transform social impact organizations. Volans envisions a global community of leaders where business innovation and social and environmental responsibility are an integral part of who they are and woven into the fabric of their careers. These leaders will pioneer and drive the new economy.
THE PROGRAM: VOLANS YEAR
Volans Year trains business professionals through one-year placements in high-calibre social impact organizations while enhancing their skills and directly increasing the organizations’ impact. The program has two integrated components:
· SOCIAL IMPACT PLACEMENTS: Participants are matched with a social impact organization in either Cambodia or Singapore in a full time position.
· EXECUTIVE EDUCATION: For a week every quarter, participants strengthen their skills in executive education and transformational leadership coaching. The curriculum has been designed to include practical and high-impact business and social impact topics. It is taught by leaders in the field.
Volans Year launches in Southeast Asian cities: Singapore and Cambodia. As the commercial epicenter for the region, Singapore is well-positioned to take a lead in social innovation. After nearly three decades of civil war, Cambodia is gradually rebuilding itself as a country, albeit with support from close to a thousand international and local non-government organizations. Several of these organizations are employing innovative approaches to addressing a broad range of social needs, providing significant learning opportunity for anyone in the social impact field.
Hiring organizations in the Volans Year portfolio have been screened by Volans and in several instances, recognized by social entrepreneurship intermediaries like the Skoll Foundation, the World Bank or the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
JOIN THE TRANSFORMATION
Volans Year is seeking its founding class of participants. The ideal candidate envisions a world where doing good and doing well is more the norm than the ideal, and aspires to be a leader and influencer in this space. If this sounds like you, please visit www.volansyear.com for further details. If you know anyone like this, kindly share this email with them!
Applications deadline: October 31, 2009.
Program launch: January 31, 2010.
~ One Year. Lifelong Impact. Lifelong Change. ~
For more information and application details: Visit www.volansyear.com.