Fire and emergency service volunteers donate countless hours to serve and protect their communities. Your selfless contributions are critical to making your community a safer, stronger place. With this in mind, the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) is pleased to partner with Cabot Creamery Co-operative to promote volunteerism and reward those who serve.
In conjunction with Points of Light, National Cooperative Bank, and Create the Good, Cabot created Reward Volunteers, a free, easy way to track the time you spend volunteering in your community and to earn rewards for your contributions. Since the program started in 2012, over 440,000 hours were logged by nearly 5,400 selfless volunteers, to the benefit of more than 4,000 organizations.
Use Reward Volunteers to log your volunteer hours for a chance to win prizes for yourself and your local firehouse. Cabot awards amazing prizes every month from prize sponsors like King Arthur Flour, Kind Snacks, Ben & Jerry’s, Seventh Generation, as well as cash and prizes for the firehouse. In addition to the monthly prizes, one dedicated volunteer who logs their hours under the NVFC group through March 2019 will be chosen to win a spot for themselves and a guest on Cabot’s 2019 Celebrity Cruise!
To participate, follow these simple steps:
1. Go to rewardvolunteers.coop and create an account.
2. Choose National Volunteer Fire Council as your ‘on behalf of’ organization when logging your hours. You can pin it so you won’t have to choose it every time.
3. Add your local firehouse in the comment box. This will allow your local firehouse to win cash and prizes.
4. Log your volunteer hours and hit ‘report.’ Now you are eligible to win prizes for you and your firehouse!
5. Use the tracking tool on a regular basis to take full advantage of the program and to be eligible for the 2019 Celebrity Cruise, which will be awarded to one dedicated NVFC volunteer in the spring of 2019. (Note, must be an NVFC member to be eligible to win the cruise. Not a member? Join at www.nvfc.org/BeYourBest.
Department leaders may also want to utilize this program as a way to provide extra incentives and rewards for their volunteers. Encourage everyone in your department to use the Reward Volunteers tool under the NVFC group.
Learn more and get started at www.nvfc.org/rewardvolunteers.
