Volunteering & Community

Our work, and really everyone’s work, requires long-term vision, long-term commitment, and long-term relationships. Sure, our grants have an “end date.” But if we are doing our job well as philanthropists, our grants will carry on, having an impact long after the dollars are spent.

When Carissa Biggie was 
selected for Goldman Sachs’ six-month leadership-acceleration program, one of her tasks was to figure out a template for growth—not for the firm or even for her department but for STRIVE, a national nonprofit that provides skills training for low-income people and helps them get jobs.

As Angelique Lewis, a global community relations manager at Baxter, recently walked along on a series of guided tours of three clinics in an area just outside the largest city in El Salvador, her eyes were opened wide.

CSX values giving back to communities where we operate – but we know we can’t do it alone. We work with several groups, including The Conservation Fund, to bring our shared visions to life. As Jena Thompson Meredith, The Conservation Fund’s Vice President of Business Partnerships, recently said, “With each partnership, we demonstrate that smart, collaborative conservation can drive responsible economic development that’s good for the environment and good for people… When you can harness this for good, it’s incredible and catching.”

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that envisions a country where every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live, today announced the launch of its year-end individual giving campaign, “100,000 Miles of Beautiful Things.” Central to the campaign is the debut of a new Keep America Beautiful Mission Video — “#DoBeautifulThings” — which aims to build upon the organization’s history while introducing a new generation of community stewards to the essential work of Keep America Beautiful.

Taproot Foundation and NetSuite.org released an easy-to-use Product Donations + Pro Bono Service Playbook.

Engineers Without Borders project improves water supply and sanitation in Haiti

Tetra Tech is proud to support Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) and Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB Canada) in helping communities in developing countries sustainably meet their basic human needs through lasting, scalable projects and technologies.

Partnering with Engineers Without Borders to provide educational opportunities