Charity

The PZU Foundation has been implementing the PZU employee volunteer program since 2012. Ten years of experience with employee volunteering prompted the PZU Foundation to conduct an evaluation of the program. An ex-post evaluation of the PZU employee volunteer program was conducted in the first quarter of 2023 by the Good Network Foundation on behalf of the PZU Foundation, which manages the program. The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the implementation of the PZU employee volunteer program to date and its achievements in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, usefulness and impact. On this basis, conclusions and recommendations for further development of the program were formulated. The evaluation confirmed that the program’s achievements to date have been used to create a well-functioning employee volunteer program that:

• is effective – it benefits its key stakeholders: the program’s beneficiaries, volunteer employees, PZU, and institutions and organizations that are recipients of the volunteers’ activities and that cooperate with the PZU Foundation in implementing the program;
• makes optimal use of the financial, human and organizational resources allocated for its implementation, which means that it is effective;
• is useful, the benefits achieved by the program’s stakeholders are useful to them and used in practice;
• caused lasting positive changes in the social environment, the PZU Foundation and PZU itself, so its impact on stakeholders is significant.

PZU Regional Volunteerism Leaders are passionate about helping. They are people who act, look and see, listen and hear, like people and are happy to do something for them. They care for the environment and their four-legged friends. At the PZU Volunteerism Leader Academy, they train and learn new skills. The annual training for Regional Volunteer Leaders was held in the fall of 2023. The goals of the two-day workshop included:

• gathering the opinions of employee volunteers regarding PZU’s employee volunteering in terms of: its main benefits, strengths, challenges, as well as the needs of employee volunteers;
• to impart knowledge and skills on leadership styles and resource map;
• exchange of best practices and inspiration on employee volunteering between volunteers and employees;
• building relationships and integrating participants;
• participation of those involved in the joint planning of original initiatives to popularize the PZU employee volunteering program;
• increased knowledge and skills in planning, implementing and communicating volunteer initiatives;