Nonprofit Programs - ProAct Indy

We match your organization with engaged volunteers and customized support to better serve your mission.

ProAct can help you manage your volunteers by providing outsourced solutions for technology and volunteer management.

Why Our Work Matters

We connect schools, corporations, and nonprofits to empower our youth and better serve our community through our Proactive Communities Model.

We are a pioneering critical service-learning and community engagement organization committed to standing in the gap for vulnerable communities while empowering youth to actively transform.

Leveraging social capital, we specialize in intentionally bringing together organizations in the city – helping groups cross social, racial, and economic boundaries through meaningful service projects & social equity training.

OUR NONPROFIT PARTNER PROGRAMS

CICs are dedicated consultants who create, manage, and implement our community engagement opportunities - bringing together businesses, nonprofits, and youth.

Community Connect is our volunteer hub used to connect and engage the community with service opportunities.

ProAct University is an innovative curriculum that transforms the way people communicate, solve problems, make decisions, and serve diverse communities. Our experienced training partners are here to support you through in-person facilitated workshops and online training and resources.

How We Work With You

Our corporate partners and youth serve their ProActive Community by applying the skills they have learned in training workshops to service projects benefiting our nonprofit partners. We also provide our nonprofit partners access to tools and support to help train and manage your volunteers.

Nonprofit Partner Benefits

1. Community Impact Concierge

Our CICs will work closely with your volunteer manager to gauge your needs and goals around connecting volunteers to your mission so you can focus less on the planning and management of your services projects and more on the people who engage with you!

2. Volunteer Management Assistance

We make it easy and cost effective for your organization to host a volunteer program – we will help you plan and manage your project(s)!

3. Connection to Corporate Partners

Connect with a well-aligned corporate partner(s) to share your mission – we advocate for you!

4. Innovative Volunteer Management System

Need affordable technology to track your impact? We got you covered. As a partner you will have access to our secure and robust volunteer management system where you can post service opportunities, communicate with volunteers who signed up to serve your organization, and electronically have volunteers sign/view waivers, track service hours, and much more! If you don’t have a volunteer management system already, this will save you money, too!

5. Automated Learning Management System

If you have a program curriculum or volunteer training you use to engage your program participants/volunteers, partners have the opportunity to utilize ProAct’s Learning Management System, ProAct University, to host your curriculum online with your brand so you can scale and automate your participants’ learning, track their progress, and report on their success!

What Our Nonprofit Partners Say

ProAct has given me a new perspective of not only my issues but the issues of others, how little acts of kindness can positively affect people’s lives in the end. From hanging out with other kids to talking to the homeless and giving back, to helping build a house, waiting tables and working in a nonprofit restaurant, every experience was worth [it]! Participating in ProAct has offered me a unique look at how nonprofits rely so much on volunteer work as well as donations in order to function.

Emily B.

Youth Participant, Youth Empowerment Camp

[ProAct’s projects] broke us into smaller groups – working with people within the relationships, fostered collaborations with other groups that allowed us the opportunity to take what we had learned in our training workshop with ProAct and apply it in a meaningful way. I also liked the creative ice breakers.

Senior Executive

TrueU

We had hoped for a more custom activity for our day of service that involved working with individuals. ProAct helped us do that in a way that was easy, seamless and impactful. People leave the day happy and engaged.

Senior Executive

Community Reinvestment Foundation

There was a great deal of comfort knowing that ProAct had addressed the safety issues: all resources needed to have a safe experience were taken care of. After our training, we just showed up and got to work. I think having a greater context for the social issues we addressed created a greater experience for our team.

Senior Executive

Royal United Mortgage

It would be hard for a corporate partner to pull off a [community service] event like this on their own; ProAct adds value because they have the connections with schools and community leaders, and the trust from schools, youth and community leaders.

Senior Executive

Community Reinvestment Foundation

If teams get behind a [ProAct] event and support it, it provides a great way for the company or organization to impact society and drive culture. It worked for us!

Senior Executive

Morales Group

I haven’t worked with ProAct in my current role, but I can say that our leadership in CSR said ProAct: positioned our company as a brand to help serve the nonprofit sector. Helped the nonprofit clients see us as a mission-driven company. Our work help us attract employees that wanted meaning in the community. Felt good to do good. Creates goodwill in the community and brought them more nonprofit work.

Senior Executive

Royal United Mortgage

Derrin’s presence: Commanding yet gentle. It makes me comfortably uncomfortable. Uses silence in the closing debrief. This program is rich in understanding the higher social equity issues and the importance of what they’re doing.

Senior Executive

TrueU

ProAct makes people feel like their impact lasts beyond the effort.

Ife Goodson

I can’t thank you enough for helping [Pack Away Hunger] recruit volunteers for our Giving Tuesday event; the ProAct Indy family SHOWED UP! The students and young adults made the event that much more dynamic and diverse.

Abigail Harlan

Executive Director, Pack Away Hunger

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