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The Volunteer Center of United Way helps companies build bridges between their employees and local community needs. Below are some examples of these companies in action. If you are interested in getting your company involved in The Volunteer Center’s Corporate Service Program please call Norman Fulton at 914-227-9311.

Dannon Corporation
Dannon Paints YMCA

Dannon assembled a team of employees from their Finance department to revitalize the White Plains Family YMCA. Volunteers cleaned and organized a storage room, warmed hallways and a community room with a fresh coat of warm orange paint, raked leaves and picked up debris around the facility and painted murals on formally stark white walls. Volunteers also painted a mural of the YMCA logo in the community room. Great work Dannon!

IBM Corporation	Throughout the month of October, over 100 IBM employees volunteered with 5 nonprofits to address a variety of local needs. Volunteers visited isolated seniors, packed meals for the homeless, sorted and repackaged donated food, and assisted a local nature center with preparations for their annual fall festival. Well done!
IBM volunteers also introduced youth to the wonders of science through the IBM TryScience curriculum. Together, volunteers and students launched rockets and built bridges – all in one science period. For the complete story on this extraordinary afternoon click here.

In October, Nike employees assisted the White Plain Youth Bureau (WPYB) recruit students for the start of the WPYB EXCEL program. This program provides creative and fun learning opportunities for White Plains high school students. During this afternoon, volunteers showed youth three of the possible courses students who join the program would participate in including improving communications skills, hip hop dancing and graphic design. In the words of the Nike employees, Swoosh!

(Left) Nike volunteer and student design a logo for the 2008-2009 EXCEL class during the graphic design portion of the afternoon.

On Thursday, June 12th and Friday, June 13th, over 400 Pepsi Bottling Group employees left the office behind to volunteer throughout Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield Counties in a company wide event – PBG Gives Back. PBG employees visited seniors at the Somers Manor Nursing Home, revitalized a myriad of community spaces, gardened with adults affected by Cerebral Palsy, made Westchester County more prepared for a disaster with the American Red Cross and much, much more. At the end of the two days, Pepsi Bottling Group employees made positive changes in over 20 different agencies on over 25 different volunteer projects. The Volunteer Center is proud to have partnered with our friends at the Pepsi Bottling Group to make this event a success and we are looking forward to planning more projects for Pepsi Bottling Group employees in the future!
	Pepsi Bottling Group employees visited seniors at Somers Manor Nursing Home

Pepsi Bottling Group employees shingled roofs at Camp Combe in Putnam Valley	Pepsi Bottling Group employees also build wheelchair accessible picnic tables for a nature center museum.

Throughout 2008, dozens of Belmay employees spent part of their afternoon revitalizing the Yonkers Aqueduct.

Volunteers worked with Groundwork Hudson Valley to perform trash and debris removal and also tore down vines which threatened many of the trees in the area.


In August, Dannon employees partnered with The Greenburgh Nature Center to restore the Nature Center’s pond, maintain hiking trails and enhance their beautiful gardens.	Throughout the Summer, Dannon continued to enhance local community green spaces. Above, Dannon employees planting trees at Merestead Park, a Westchester County Park in Mt. Kisco


In July, Heineken launched their new Share the Good Campaign by sharing through many projects including work at The Food Bank for Westchester.


Viacom employees helped get Rye Nature Center in shape for the season	A Nokia team from Finland volunteered at the Greenburgh Nature Center


In April, Dannon employees created an outdoor classroom and learning space for Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining

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