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We love volunteers! Last year, volunteers provided more than 80,000 hours of support to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County (SVdP) - the equivalent of 42 full time staff positions! Volunteers help with all aspects of the organization, ranging from serving food to providing administrative support to painting. In all cases, volunteers help to promote human dignity and improve the lives of the poor.


Revenue Evaluation

Society of St. Vincent de Paul - Volunteer Opportunity - Revenue Evaluation
Title: Revenue Evaluation
Reports to: Executive Director
Location: 9235 San Leandro Street, Oakland, California 94603
Starting Date: ASAP
Ending Date: Ongoing
Frequency: Project Based
Duties:

Generate a summary of promising new earned revenue opportunities, complete with financial forecasts, startup costs.  

Issues :
Thrift store trends point towards more competition, less revenue, increased expenses. 

People Involved :

  • Stores Manager
  • Warehouse Manager
  • Director of HR and Administration
  • Board Member/Committee Chairs
  • Board President
  • Executive Director  

Proposed Process :

  • Assess driving forces for earned income
  • Outline expected outcomes (mission and financial) for these business ideas.
  • Clarify core competencies of SVdP
  • Connect with key stakeholders and develop a communications plan
  • Finalize workplan including agreement on: how to proceed through each area of focus, priorities for focus, possible activities, who has responsibility for performing work at each stage, and timeline.
  • Screening Criteria are set (and ranked) for screening of ideas.
  • Ideation, brainstorming of ideas.
  • Ideas put through criteria grid.
  • Consensus on 5-8 ideas for preliminary feasibility research and analysis
  • Preliminary feasibility research conducted on 5-8 ideas.
  • Preliminary Feasibility Report written.
  • Reports presented to Committee for input.
  • Decisions made as to which ideas to drop, leaving 2-4 for full feasibility studies.  

For more information about volunteering at St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda , please contact the Volunteer Manager at (510) 877-9237 or via email at volunteer@svdp-alameda.org

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an international non-profit organization that provides social services to people in need, regardless of creed, opinion, color, caste or origin.  "Need, not creed determines who is helped."