Being A Volunteer

Objectives

In Being A Volunteer, you will learn ...

• What is the monthly award for outstanding volunteer?
• What are the Volunteer Guidelines?
• What are common tools used by volunteers?
• How to claim PDUs for volunteering.

We Live Our Chapter's Mission ...

To create a fun community built on supportive relationships to foster mentoring and growth.

Supportive relationships can work both ways. You can ask for help, and you should be ready to help when needed.

Volunteering with PMI-SFBAC is about more than completing tasks and accumulating PDUs. We are a community and we love to have fun and make friends!

Our Values ...

• have fun
• build relationships
• promote growth
• embrace ownership
• give back

We Value Your Contributions

• Each month, Team Leads nominate exceptional volunteers, and one is honored with the Star Award. In addition to the recognition, there is a prize awarded.
• We offer many discounts for volunteers to attend Chapter events.
• We hold free, fun Volunteer Mixers.

Last year, the PMI celebrated its 50th anniversary milestone by introducing a new brand identity and logo. In tune with this new positioning for the future of work, former Marketing Director of the PMI San Francisco Bay Area chapter (and new Director at Large of the Board) Lorena De Benedittis saw an opportunity to take things a step further. Though now a passionate project manager, Lorena drew inspiration from her education in Design at the ISIA Urbino in Italy to draw up a customized version of the PMI logo just for our chapter. Having studied at one of the best universities of editorial design and typography in Europe, working on taking the brand identity a step more “was really fun,” she said.

Starting with the new brand identity logo from PMI Global, it took a total of two months to design the five alternative options, put them through the Board’s voting process, and get the chosen option sanctioned by PMI Global for official use. The result? A PMI-SFBAC logo with our Golden Gate Bridge as an icon in the bottom right square, where the original purple slanted lines symbolized change.

“Design is a universal language and needs to be readable in a few seconds by everyone. Less is more,” Lorena explains. The chapter will be using this special PMI-SFBAC logo on its website, social media pages, and other collateral into the future as part of our chapter’s continuing push into the future Project Economy.