Visit Baltimore Meeting & Event Planning Guide Winter/Spring 2020 - Sustainability Issue | Page 58

If you’re looking for a fresh way to build team cohesion, why not try voluntourism? R ounds of golf or watching pro-sports games allow the group to get out of the offi ce together, but voluntourism adds the element of working toward a common Packing and/or Providing Necessities • goal—the very defi nition of team-building. And what better way to truly experience a destination than to meet those passionate enough to serve their communities? Visit Baltimore partners with Business • • Baltimore’s premier nonprofi t specializing organize group service projects for visiting • The Red Cross organizes teams to canvass neighborhoods to educate people about for the homeless. home fi re safety and to install fi re alarms. Meals on Wheels welcomes volunteers to pack Working with Animals • The Maryland SPCA welcomes volunteers to United Way Stone Soup invites volunteers to help keep animals clean and comfortable in donate ingredients that they will then use to their cages. The best part? Some play time compete with each other to prepare dishes with the animals when the work is over. Clean the World off ers opportunities to assemble and distribute hygiene kits, which include shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, razors, etc. Association (PCMA) notes several group Working with People volunteer opportunities in Baltimore. • Working Outside • St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, a comprehensive nonprofi t providing multiple services, organizes Community Clean-Up Days, site beautifi cation and The Arc Baltimore provides opportunities playground build projects to work toward (To learn more, go to GivingGood.com/ for volunteers to interact with individuals the goal of providing Baltimore citizens baltimore-md.) with intellectual and developmental with safe and beautiful spaces. One West Pratt Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 p. 410.649.7068 f. 410.649.7007 [email protected] 56 • for those in need. organizations. The Professional Convention Management connecting with others. meeting attendees to help pack survival kits meals for delivery to homebound citizens. Volunteers Maryland (BVM), Greater in coordinating volunteer events, to Health Care for the Homeless invites disabilities. Play bingo or go bowling while B A LT I M O R E . O R G