Volunteering & Community

Rebuilding Together and Lowe’s Host Fifth Annual Building a Healthy Neighborhood

Rebuilding Together — a leading national nonprofit in safe and healthy housing that provides low-income homeowners with critical home repairs — will join together with its affiliate, Rebuilding Together St. Louis, to lead its fifth annual Building a Healthy Neighborhood community revitalization project. The effort, supported by lead partner Lowe’s and 275 of its Lowe’s Heroes employee volunteers, will be held in St. John, a small community in St. Louis County, this October 8–10, and is expected to provide more than $760,000 in market value back to the community.

Philanthropy

CITGO Fuels Good with the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

In its commitment to fuel good in the community, CITGO Petroleum Corporation and its local branded Marketers Griffith Energy Services, Inc., Carroll Independent Fuel Company, and The Wills Group, recently donated $15,000 in CITGO Gift Cards to the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and announced the “Be A Star, Buy A Star” community fundraising campaign to further benefit the hospital. The gift cards were presented to Paula Heneberry, LCSW-C, Director of Pediatric Social Work at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and will be given to families whose children are being treated at the facility to assist them with travel costs to and from the hospital.

Awards & Rankings

Finalists Named for Atlanta's 2015 Cox Conserves Heroes Program, Public Asked to Vote

Channel 2 WSB-TV and The Trust for Public Land are recognizing volunteers who are creating, preserving or enhancing shared outdoor spaces. Tom Branch, Julie Burroughs and Alan Toney have been selected as finalists for Atlanta’s 2015 Cox Conserves Heroes program, and the public is being asked to vote now through October 26 at wsbtv.com/coxconservesheroes.

Inclusion & Opportunity

A Discussion Between Generations

Millennials, the next generation of leaders, ranks quality of life – their own and others’ – highly. This defining perspective will change organizational paradigms around the world within the next decade.

Volunteering & Community

Decomissioned Nuclear Plant Takes Story on the Road

The table display at the Laguna Hills Community Center looked harmless enough — a couple of old alarm clocks, a smoke detector and a bright red Fiesta dinnerware cup and saucer.

Volunteering & Community

Local Nurse Realizes American Dream of Homeownership

Volunteering & Community

2015 Mega Match-a-thon Adoption Events Presented by Subaru

The fourth annual ASPCA Mega Match-a-thon Presented by Subaru seeks to save the maximum number of animals in shelters through high-volume community adoption events that will take place across the country throughout the month of October.

Events

21st Century Fox Presents Grants for School Music Programs Across the U.S.

To commemorate the end of FOX's groundbreaking musical television series Glee, which sparked renewed interest and participation in school music programs during its six-season run, 21st Century Fox and the Give a Note Foundation in March announced the establishment of the 21st Century Fox Give a Note Grants to support 16 under-funded music education programs at schools across the United States. The two organizations worked closely to identify the recipient schools and have begun distributing the funds through school ceremonies this fall.

Education & Workforce Development

Keep America Beautiful's Recycle-Bowl Registration Closing Soon!

Recycle-Bowl is Keep America Beautiful’s fun and friendly national recycling competition, focusing on promoting recycling in K-12 schools. Registration for this year’s Recycle-Bowl competition closes on Oct. 13. The competition takes place from Oct. 19 to Nov. 15.

Events

Webinar: 2015 Cone Communications Millennial CSR Study

This webinar will walk you through key data and critical implications for business wishing to engage Millennials in CSR including expectations, perception of impact, business approaches and preferred types of engagement. The session will also explore unique drivers and priorities of the Young Millennial, Mature Millennial, Millennial Female, Millennial Male, Affluent Millennial and Millennial Mom.

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