Entrepreneur Jason Kulpa Explains How to Give Back in Your Community

Nearly everyone has experienced hardships in the last few years. As such, entrepreneur Jason Kulpa says, it’s more important than ever to give back to help your local community.

There are many ways, both large and small, that you can help to spread hope and kindness in your local community while supporting those who are in need. Below are several ways that you can lend a helping hand and begin taking action to give back to your local community.

Host a Fundraiser

Business owners can play a huge role in helping to raise money for those in need or important local causes. Businesses often have a large audience of current and potential customers they can reach through various marketing channels, and business owners often have extensive networks they can contact for support.

Hosting a fundraiser is a great way to give back to the local community. There are many ways to do this. For example, you can take a percentage of all your sales for a specific time period and give it to a local charity.

The more local you can make the beneficiary, the better. And there’s no reason why you can’t use your fundraiser as a way to raise awareness for a local cause, too.

Volunteer

Giving back isn’t just about giving money to a charity. Even if you don’t have extra money to spare, you can play a huge support role by volunteering.

There are many places where you can give back, including local food banks and food pantries, on cleanup crews, and even at libraries reading to children. Giving back can take many forms, so find something near and dear to your heart and contribute your time to the effort.

Donate Products or Services

Business owners are in a unique position to be able to donate the products or services the company produces to a local cause. For example, one of the biggest needs that local charities have is getting the word out about their needs to people who would potentially contribute.

For example, you could provide a local non-profit with free advertising services if you own a media company. If you own a printing company, you could offer to print flyers and other marketing materials for no cost.

There are many other ways you can give back in this way, too. Just think about how the products or services your company provides customers daily could help support local charitable causes.

Set Up a Drive

Collection drives are a very effective way to get a bunch of goods together in one fell swoop to donate to local charities. Of course, food is an obvious good, but don’t forget about baby products such as diapers, animal products such as toys, and even presents for children in need around the holidays.

Jason Kulpa says that one of the most effective ways you can do this as a business owner is to join with other businesses in your community for one large drive. Then, you can take the lead in setting up the drive and connecting with the local non-profits to which you’ll donate the goods you collect.

Then, once that’s established, reach out to other business owners in your community to participate as well. You can post notices of the drive on local business message boards or networking events.

The larger the base of support businesses you have, the more successful the drive is likely to be.

About Jason Kulpa

Jason Kulpa is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of UE.co, San Diego’s Fastest Growing Business multi-year award winner, and a Certified Great Place to Work multi-year winner. Mr. Kulpa is a San Diego’s two-time winner of the Most Admired CEO Award of the San Diego Business Journal and also a semi-finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur award. Under Mr. Kulpa’s leadership, in 2018, his teams volunteered at over 24 events and worked side-by-side to improve the San Diego community. They hosted a gala dinner benefiting individuals with autism, cheered on Special Olympic athletes as they broke their records on the track, and brought school supplies and cold-weather gear to students impacted by homelessness. Jason’s mission is to bring awareness, support, and inclusion for special needs causes.