Volunteering & Community

Through its new Health Corps program, IBM plans to dispatch interdisciplinary teams to six destinations around the world starting in 2016 -- and more in subsequent years.

VolunteerMatch, the web’s largest volunteer engagement network, announced today the finalists for its annual Employee Volunteer Program of the Year Award. This award honors companies for exemplary employee volunteer programs during the previous calendar year.

On September 10, 2016 Team LIVESTRONG is partnering with Over the Edge for an all new event experience in Atlanta, Georgia! Participants will rappel down the side of Buckhead Tower all while raising vital funds to support LIVESTRONG’s free programs and services.

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life Services, proudly served the more than 2,000 veterans who attended Operation Stand Down from July 22 through 24 in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Coordinated by Sodexo’s employee resource business group, HONOR, volunteers from accounts in Sodexo’s Government, Healthcare, Universities and Corporate Services business segments served lunch for the attendees as well as hosted an employment table for all three days of the event.

Approximately 200 Astellas Medical Affairs, Americas employees from across the United States, Canada and Brazil recently joined forces in Vancouver, Canada, to benefit Urban Native Youth Association.

In the fall of 2015, global technology company Arrow Electronics helped launch the first “DigiTruck” in Africa. The self-sustainable mobile computer lab brought technology and internet access to children living largely off the grid in the Tuleeni Orphans Home, located on the remote slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

With Chris Froome's record-breaking win at the final stage of the Tour de France on July 24, 21st Century Fox-sponsored Team Sky once again delivered on its reputation as the U.K.'s premier professional cycling team. Yet for Team Sky, the work doesn't end when the race is over. Its riders are committed year-round to use their platform as major sports stars to encourage cycling fans toward active, healthy lifestyles.

Two Good Samaritans reunited with the man they saved last month. Last month, Kylie Whitaker, a nurse, was driving to work, when she saw a man slowly drive his pick-up truck into the center median on Antelope Road.

Dave Cormack, the president and chief executive officer of the healthcare software provider Brightree, and his family were lead donors in the construction of the new Cormack Family Community Center and Youth Center in Cartagena, Colombia. The centers were inaugurated earlier this summer and will benefit nearly 12,000 children and youth.

Republic Services was pleased to receive a positive shout out on social media from a valued customer in the Tampa, Florida area in early July.