Today more than ever before, companies are looking for new ways to motivate employees and give back to the community. Impact 4 Good, a corporate teambuilding company created specifically for the meetings and incentives industry, offers clients the opportunity to participate in meaningful and worthwhile community service-oriented activities with a unique twist: we bring the entire experience to our clients at hotels and resorts across the country and abroad.

Given the current economic environment, meeting planners are faced with increased oversight and scrutiny, yet, even with this new pressure, they must continue to develop successful and impactful programs. Socially conscious meetings and events, which result in local donations, combat the “perception misconception” by not only motivating employees by working as a team, but by benefiting the destination community via tangible, hand-made and/or in-kind donations.

Collaborating with national and international partners, Impact 4 Good utilizes a worldwide network of community service organizations to ensure activities benefit both participating employees and the community at large, while integrating core business objectives.

Key causes and popular activities include:

Philanthropic Cause	Impact 4 Good Activity
Education	Literacy Builders; Go GREEN Racing; Community HeART
Environment	Go GREEN Racing; Eco-sino–a GREEN Casino
Hunger	Fare to Share
Health & Medicine	The Best Medicine; Community HeART
Housing / Underprivileged	Habitat for Humanity: Family Gifts
Poverty Alleviation	Beehive Building
Children	Bike Build for Charity; Take the Cake

Impact 4 Good understands the key challenges corporate meeting planners face—decreased budgets, tight agendas and little time for off-property activities. Our teambuilding programs are designed to take place onsite and to be completed in two hours or less making it easy for attendees to move to the next activity or business session, all the while, providing a unique philanthropic experience for the entire group.

The program will contain effective and comprehensive activities focusing on work readiness, leadership, community engagement and work experience. 15-30 student participants will complete pre-employment/work maturity/life skills training on the initial day of the program.  Following pre-employment training, participants will carry out job-specific skills training, based upon the students’ academic majors (e.g. International business, Fashion Design, Education, Architecture, and Communications, etc.).  Following job-specific skills training, participants experience a 1-day, highly engaging, experiential leadership training service learning program.  A ceremony to reflect, thank and congratulate will close the program.

Application information is here and an application is  here

As the Midwest sales representative for Grand Dynamics, Corporate Motivation can call upon the expertise and specialty programs they offer to compliment your custom experience.

from the Record-Courier, April 24, 2010
By Diane Smith, Record-Courier staff writer

In a true test of international cooperation, visiting teachers from 11 countries came together to build two bicycles for charity.

The bicycles, donated to Family and Community Services, were the last step in a day-long team- building exercise, said Matt Campana of Corporate Motivation.

The instructors are visiting from various countries, all brought to the United States through a grant from the U.S. Department of State. The program is coordinated locally by the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, said Linda Robertson, director of the center.

As part of their stay in the United States, the instructors had internships at various high schools and middle schools, including Ravenna, Stow and Hudson.

The group is preparing a professional development manual, which will be shared among all universities participating in the program, Robertson said. The manual will focus on such skills as problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and leadership.

The group will give a 20-minute demonstration on the concepts in the manual in Washington, D.C. before returning to their home countries, Robertson said.

Campana said he led the group in a series of “light adventure” outdoor activities designed to reinforce the concepts to be included in the manual. As they completed a task, each was given a component of one of the bikes being built.

After lunch, the team gathered to build the bikes, an exercise meant to reinforce the lessons learned during the day. The team members quickly learned which components went with which bike.

“It helped us build leadership skills and work as a team,” said Mrinali Chowdhary, a native of India and an English teacher who completed her internship at Stow-Munroe Falls High School. “It was an eye opener for us.”

Mamatha Megaravalli, also a native of India, is a math teacher who completed her internship in Hudson. She said the exercise taught leadership, critical thinking, problem solving and how to work in a group.

“The beauty of this is that some of us are good at communication and some are good at spatial knowledge,” she said. “Everybody contributes in their own way. Everybody in the group is important.”

Here are some Corporate Motivation, Inc accomplishments to date:

• Pioneer in the Corporate Volunteer space
• In 2006 we created Corporate Volunteer Retreats™, the only program of its kind in the country bridging volunteering and performance improvement in a resort retreat setting
• Recommended by Voluntourism.org as a provider. Voluntourism.org is a leader in volunteering initiatives and we were the featured speaker on a recent webcast with David Clemmons, Episode #36: “Corporate Motivation” & VolunTourism
• 18 month University study proving the viability of our Corporate Volunteer Retreat™ program
• Recommended by Habitat for Humanity International
• Recommended by Hands On Network
• Fortune 10 company recommendation of program
• A complete vendor/supplier network in place to deliver customized volunteer retreat programs
• Eight years experience in the meeting and retreat industry
• A passion to lead Corporations on a new course toward giving and providing a platform to encourage purpose in all we do

As part of the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education’s year long look at the UN’s Millennium Development Goals and with particular emphasis on Goal 7.  Ensure environmental sustainability as well as to provide opportunity for service travel, we are confident that you will marvel at the opportunities on sustainability in this itinerary, in the country that promises to be carbon neutral.  Travel with Corporate Motivation and a Kent State University Sustainability expert and enjoy the trip of a life time. 

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Welcome to the new Corporate Motivation, Inc website.  It is our hope to create a site that will be educational, interactive and provide you with the knowledge you need to commit to a socially responsible group retreat program.