Change AGENTs Pay it Forward (10 photos)

Change AGENTs Pay it Forward (10 photos) Change AGENTs Pay it Forward (10 photos) Image Source: ComcastTHIS  week’s Change AGENTs Pay it Forward post features 10 examples of employees making a significant contribution towards altruistic community support programmes championed by their companies, and of  firms using  engaging promotional campaigns aimed at positively changing the mood of the public in their respective sectors.It’s a varied selection, which spans achievements and endeavours undertaken in the US, South Africa and Canada over the past six months.If you’d like your company  to be included in future Change AGENTs Pay it Forward posts, click the link below for submission details. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1. Comcast Albuquerque, New Mexico, USAImage Source: TwitterUS multinational mass media firm Comast held its Comcast Cares Day at the end of April. Staff from the corporation’s New Mexico office are pictured at the Roadrunner Food Bank, which provides food for the hungry of New Mexico from its base in Albuquerque. Comc ast Cares Day takes place every April. The 2015 event  saw 100,000 participants volunteering at more than 900 projects in 22 countries, collectively donating $13m worth of serviceâ€"a fantastic Pay it Forward achievement.2. DoubleTree by Hilton InternationalImage Source: TwitterTHE DoubleTree by Hilton chain has launched Nice Travels, a campaign to drive random acts of kindness that prove “nice” is contagious. The idea is that when a guest stays at the hotels, through the warm chocolate chip cookie welcome that they receive, “nice” stays with them. Through social listening, Hilton’s ‘Nice Travels Index’ found that just 36 percent of the online conversation about travel was positive, with the majority of the conversation dominated by grumbles about flight delays, lost luggage and rude encounters. The index will be used to reward the nicest travellers with on-the-ground giveaways, add new cities with the nicest travellers, and overall make a positive change in the trave l experience, building on Hilton’s brand culture of CARE (Create A Rewarding Experience). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 3. Dudnyk Health Philadelphia, PA, USAImage Source: TwitterSTAFF of the Philadelphia-based full-service healthcare agency, Dudnyk Health, supported their local March for Babies organised by the US March Of Dimes Foundation. The foundation supports programs helping mothers to have healthy full-term pregnancies, and funds research to find causes and preventions of premature birth, the number one killer of babies. This is one of several Pay it Forward efforts  by Dudnyk personnel locally and nationally. Other  causes  include Ronald McDonald House, the Coco Foundation for families affected by  paediatric cancer; and LEADERSHIP Philadelphia, a local organisation focused on connecting private sector executives to the community via service initiatives.4. Design Group Columbus, OH, USAImage Source:TwitterTHE Columbus-based architectural firm Desi gn Group thought ‘big picture’ for their April 2016 contribution to Earth Day. Priding themselves as “designers of the built environment” for a nationwide portfolio of buildings in the healthcare, education, workplace, civic and library sectors, this year the architects got back to basics by rolling up their sleeves, putting on their gardening gloves, and volunteering for work at Franklin Park Conservatory in their hometown. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 5. Green Team Helping Hands Greensboro, NC, USAImage Source: TwitterGREEN Team Helping Hands  is a non-profit organisation that provides meals and survival essentials to homeless people in their operational base of Greensboro, North Carolina. Paying It Forward is what GT Helping Hands is all about. Founder Ashley Benton set up the organisation in 2009 as a way to “pay it forward” after her own father benefited from organs donated by the family of the late Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henr y. As Greensboro has the largest food shortage in the US, the cause was a high-profile and obvious one for Ashley and her team. They began by feeding 18 people, and today theyre feeding over 300 men, women and children every week.6. Dolce Bakery Cape Town, South AfricaImage Source: TwitterIN April 2016, the Dolce Bakery  in  Cape Town reached out to its customers to support a  PayItForward batch of delicious muffins for Nazareth House, which provides a loving, stable and secure home for abandoned, neglected, disabled, orphaned children, and children with terminal conditions who are unable to return to their own homes due to social ills. The bakery, established in 2011 a supplier to the hospitality industry and now with a busy retail shop, has pledged to continue to deliver more of its tasty produce for people in need, and on its Facebook page has pledged to next target the township of Langa. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 7. Haney Tech Center Panama, FL, USAIm age Source: TwitterSTAFF and students at the Tom P Haney Technical Center, an educational institution in Panama City, Florida, logged more than 700 hours with Habitat for Humanity, a Bay County, FL-based ecumenical Christian non-profit organisation. The mission of HfF is to eliminate poverty housing, building decent and affordable houses for people in need, using the skills of hundreds of volunteers throughout Bay County. Since 1990, HfF has served 76 families, housing over 152 individuals in three-bedroom homes with two bathrooms and a covered entrance way.8. Smokes Burritorie Toronto, CanadaImage Source: TwitterSTAFF at Toronto burrito joint, Smoke’s Burritorie, distributed a batch of its wares to young kids in the local neighbourhood, with the help of police officers from the city’s 14th Division. Smoke’s, which dominates the Toronto’s poutine market, established its first burritorie in Autumn of 2015, and their Pay it Forward efforts have help them to bed in. Earlier in 2016, the burritorie welcomed a group from the city’s Good Neighbours’ Club, which organises recreational activities, and provides meals, showers, clothing and other outreach services for the homeless. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 9. Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies St Paul, MN, USAImage Source: TwitterMEMBERS of the youth symphony orchestras and their families packed away over four and a half thousand pounds of food for the GRTCYS annual day of service in aid of Second Harvest Heartland, one of the largest food banks in the United States. The Youth Symphonies themselves have been the beneficiaries of numerous philanthropic donations, grant awards and sponsorship, as well as contributions from individuals.10. Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston, MA, USAImage Source: TwitterTHE Boston Redevelopment Authority is another US organisation that makes serious Pay it Forward efforts to tackle hunger and poverty within its  local communities. Here, BRA sta ff take a break from their efforts in aid of the Greater Boston Food Bank, which distributes over 50m pounds of food annually, enough to provide meals for more than 500,000 people in Eastern Massachusetts. Change AGENTs Pay it Forward (10 photos) Change AGENTs Pay it Forward (10 photos) Image Source: ComcastTHIS  week’s Change AGENTs Pay it Forward post features 10 examples of employees making a significant contribution towards altruistic community support programmes championed by their companies, and of  firms using  engaging promotional campaigns aimed at positively changing the mood of the public in their respective sectors.It’s a varied selection, which spans achievements and endeavours undertaken in the US, South Africa and Canada over the past six months.If you’d like your company  to be included in future Change AGENTs Pay it Forward posts, click the link below for submission details. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1. Comcast Albuquerque, New Mexico, USAImage Source: TwitterUS multinational mass media firm Comast held its Comcast Cares Day at the end of April. Staff from the corporation’s New Mexico office are pictured at the Roadrunner Food Bank, which provides food for the hungry of New Mexico from its base in Albuquerque. Comc ast Cares Day takes place every April. The 2015 event  saw 100,000 participants volunteering at more than 900 projects in 22 countries, collectively donating $13m worth of serviceâ€"a fantastic Pay it Forward achievement.2. DoubleTree by Hilton InternationalImage Source: TwitterTHE DoubleTree by Hilton chain has launched Nice Travels, a campaign to drive random acts of kindness that prove “nice” is contagious. The idea is that when a guest stays at the hotels, through the warm chocolate chip cookie welcome that they receive, “nice” stays with them. Through social listening, Hilton’s ‘Nice Travels Index’ found that just 36 percent of the online conversation about travel was positive, with the majority of the conversation dominated by grumbles about flight delays, lost luggage and rude encounters. The index will be used to reward the nicest travellers with on-the-ground giveaways, add new cities with the nicest travellers, and overall make a positive change in the trave l experience, building on Hilton’s brand culture of CARE (Create A Rewarding Experience). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 3. Dudnyk Health Philadelphia, PA, USAImage Source: TwitterSTAFF of the Philadelphia-based full-service healthcare agency, Dudnyk Health, supported their local March for Babies organised by the US March Of Dimes Foundation. The foundation supports programs helping mothers to have healthy full-term pregnancies, and funds research to find causes and preventions of premature birth, the number one killer of babies. This is one of several Pay it Forward efforts  by Dudnyk personnel locally and nationally. Other  causes  include Ronald McDonald House, the Coco Foundation for families affected by  paediatric cancer; and LEADERSHIP Philadelphia, a local organisation focused on connecting private sector executives to the community via service initiatives.4. Design Group Columbus, OH, USAImage Source:TwitterTHE Columbus-based architectural firm Desi gn Group thought ‘big picture’ for their April 2016 contribution to Earth Day. Priding themselves as “designers of the built environment” for a nationwide portfolio of buildings in the healthcare, education, workplace, civic and library sectors, this year the architects got back to basics by rolling up their sleeves, putting on their gardening gloves, and volunteering for work at Franklin Park Conservatory in their hometown. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 5. Green Team Helping Hands Greensboro, NC, USAImage Source: TwitterGREEN Team Helping Hands  is a non-profit organisation that provides meals and survival essentials to homeless people in their operational base of Greensboro, North Carolina. Paying It Forward is what GT Helping Hands is all about. Founder Ashley Benton set up the organisation in 2009 as a way to “pay it forward” after her own father benefited from organs donated by the family of the late Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henr y. As Greensboro has the largest food shortage in the US, the cause was a high-profile and obvious one for Ashley and her team. They began by feeding 18 people, and today theyre feeding over 300 men, women and children every week.6. Dolce Bakery Cape Town, South AfricaImage Source: TwitterIN April 2016, the Dolce Bakery  in  Cape Town reached out to its customers to support a  PayItForward batch of delicious muffins for Nazareth House, which provides a loving, stable and secure home for abandoned, neglected, disabled, orphaned children, and children with terminal conditions who are unable to return to their own homes due to social ills. The bakery, established in 2011 a supplier to the hospitality industry and now with a busy retail shop, has pledged to continue to deliver more of its tasty produce for people in need, and on its Facebook page has pledged to next target the township of Langa. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 7. Haney Tech Center Panama, FL, USAIm age Source: TwitterSTAFF and students at the Tom P Haney Technical Center, an educational institution in Panama City, Florida, logged more than 700 hours with Habitat for Humanity, a Bay County, FL-based ecumenical Christian non-profit organisation. The mission of HfF is to eliminate poverty housing, building decent and affordable houses for people in need, using the skills of hundreds of volunteers throughout Bay County. Since 1990, HfF has served 76 families, housing over 152 individuals in three-bedroom homes with two bathrooms and a covered entrance way.8. Smokes Burritorie Toronto, CanadaImage Source: TwitterSTAFF at Toronto burrito joint, Smoke’s Burritorie, distributed a batch of its wares to young kids in the local neighbourhood, with the help of police officers from the city’s 14th Division. Smoke’s, which dominates the Toronto’s poutine market, established its first burritorie in Autumn of 2015, and their Pay it Forward efforts have help them to bed in. Earlier in 2016, the burritorie welcomed a group from the city’s Good Neighbours’ Club, which organises recreational activities, and provides meals, showers, clothing and other outreach services for the homeless. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 9. Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies St Paul, MN, USAImage Source: TwitterMEMBERS of the youth symphony orchestras and their families packed away over four and a half thousand pounds of food for the GRTCYS annual day of service in aid of Second Harvest Heartland, one of the largest food banks in the United States. The Youth Symphonies themselves have been the beneficiaries of numerous philanthropic donations, grant awards and sponsorship, as well as contributions from individuals.10. Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston, MA, USAImage Source: TwitterTHE Boston Redevelopment Authority is another US organisation that makes serious Pay it Forward efforts to tackle hunger and poverty within its  local communities. Here, BRA sta ff take a break from their efforts in aid of the Greater Boston Food Bank, which distributes over 50m pounds of food annually, enough to provide meals for more than 500,000 people in Eastern Massachusetts.