JetBlue Reaches One Million Hours of Caring!
November 01 2019 - 12:54PM
Business Wire
To Celebrate, this JetBlue For Good® Month the
Airline is Encouraging Customers, Community Partners and
Crewmembers to ‘Share Your Good’ For a Chance to Win One Year of
Flights to Do Even More Good (*)
JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU) put good on the map with its previous
‘Destination Good’ surprise volunteer experience, and this November
is celebrating another milestone. Over the past eight years,
JetBlue crewmembers have volunteered more than one million hours of
caring in their local communities. This JetBlue For Good Month, the
airline is inviting its customers, crewmembers, and community
partners to “Share Your Good” for an opportunity to win a year’s
worth of flights (12 pairs of roundtrip JetBlue travel
certificates) to travel and do good throughout JetBlue’s
network.*
Those interested in traveling to spread good can enter at
jetblueforgood.com through November 30, 2019, by submitting a short
essay to be eligible for the grand prize. Three customers, three
nonprofits, and three crewmembers will each win a year’s worth of
flights to spread good throughout 2020. JetBlue will also offer
weekly prizes to do-gooders who upload a photo at
jetblueforgood.com, showing them doing good in their local
communities.*
Weekly prizes will include:
- Pairs of roundtrip travel certificates (subject to blackout
dates and terms and conditions)
- Nonprofits that participate will be entered for a chance to win
one of 20 grants, each valued at $1,000 to help the organizations
continue doing good
- JetBlue is donating $20,000 to Global Giving, a nonprofit that
connects donors with grassroots projects around the world. Random
participants will receive special codes to allocate $50 increments,
covered by JetBlue, to their favorite projects available in the
Global Giving platform.
“As one of the founding members of JetBlue, I’ve seen us grow to
22,000 crewmembers who have volunteered more than one million hours
to make our local communities better places. Over the past 19
years, one thing has remained the same – our unique culture,” said
Icema Gibbs, director of corporate social responsibility, JetBlue.
“Service is in our DNA, and it’s our crewmembers who bring our
mission of inspiring humanity to life every day. This JetBlue for
Good Month, we’re celebrating our customers and partners who help
in making a powerful impact. Good can be big or small, anywhere and
at any time – in the air, on the ground, and in your local
communities.”
Taking Inspiring Humanity® to new heights – JetBlue For
Good focuses on three pillars: youth and education, community, and
the environment. JetBlue is so dedicated to service that the
airline even have an aircraft dedicated to good. The JetBlue For
Good plane celebrates the one million hours crewmembers have
dedicated to giving back and was designed to inspire everyone who
sees it to help make their community a better place. The livery
depicts JetBlue crewmembers peeling back a curtain to give a peek
at some of the causes JetBlue customers and crewmember are
passionate about, as well as the airline’s unique culture.
Sharing Our Good – A sampling of JetBlue For Good’s efforts
and volunteerism:
- Community Connection – JetBlue crewmembers give back to
a variety of causes and nonprofits throughout JetBlue’s 100+ cities
in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2018 alone,
crewmembers logged more than 199,000 volunteer hours.
- Swing For Good funds raised for three youth-focused
charities – Through this year’s Swing for Good fundraising
campaign, JetBlue will distribute more than $1 million to three
youth and education-focused charities – DoSomething.org, First Book
and the JetBlue Foundation. Funds were raised in October by
JetBlue’s business partners, customers and crewmembers. Since 2008,
JetBlue's Swing for Good initiative has raised nearly $8 million to
benefit a variety of youth and education nonprofits.
- Encouraging STEM Education with the JetBlue
Foundation – This year, the JetBlue Foundation helped fuel 13
education programs with nearly $250,000 in grants to benefit their
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and
aviation initiatives. This round of grants is supporting
initiatives focused on mentorship and technical education training,
with the goal of adding more diversity within STEM and the aviation
industry.
- Helping communities in need following the devastation
of Hurricane Dorian – Following the recent hurricane in the
Bahamas, JetBlue activated its internal Community Relief and
Recovery Fund. JetBlue crewmembers have donated more than $26,000
to support relief efforts in the Bahamas, and the airline provided
a $25,000 company match. Additionally, JetBlue provided support for
students from the University of the Bahamas-North Campus as the
school sustained extensive damage. While the school’s
administration plans to rebuild, there was no way for classes to
continue this semester. JetBlue collaborated with Head and Heart
Philanthropy to fly nearly 50 students to Hampton University in
Virginia. The school is covering tuition and other costs for the
semester so these students can stay on track with their
education.
- Providing access to safe playspaces – JetBlue and
KaBOOM! have worked together for more than 10 years to build 30
playgrounds, reintroducing play to nearly 300,000 children and
families. Last summer in Boston, JetBlue, GreenRoots, Vine Street
Community Center, and the local community joined KaBOOM! to
transform two empty sites into a kid-designed, state-of-the-art
playground and a multi-sport court. Play is an important part of a
child’s development affecting their physical, creative, cognitive,
social and emotional skills.
Want to get in on the good? – If you would like to join
JetBlue in doing good, TrueBlue loyalty members can donate their
points to a variety of charities and causes through the TrueBlue
Points Donation Platform. Join JetBlue in supporting causes and
nonprofits such as DoSomething.org, KaBOOM!, the JetBlue Foundation
and Make-A-Wish. When members donate points, they go directly to
the selected charity, and each charity may use the points for
travel for their organization. For example, since 2012, JetBlue and
its customers have donated more than 23 million TrueBlue points to
Make-A-Wish to help create life-changing wishes for children
battling critical illnesses. For more information or to donate
points visit jetblue.com/donate.
Giving back is part of JetBlue’s DNA and is core to its
mission of inspiring humanity® – Centered around volunteerism
and service, JetBlue For Good focuses on the areas that are most
important to the airline’s customers and crewmembers - Community,
Youth/Education and the Environment. JetBlue’s core programs and
partnerships directly impact the areas where its customers and
crewmembers live and work by enhancing education and providing
access to those that are traditionally underserved. Signature
programs include the award-winning Soar with Reading initiative,
which has provided more than $3.75 million worth of books to kids
who need them most and Blue Horizons For Autism, which helps
introduce air travel in a realistic environment to families and
children affected by autism. Join the #JetBlueForGood conversation
on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, check for regular updates, and
get involved.
ABOUT JETBLUE
JetBlue is New York's Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier
in Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long Beach),
Orlando, and San Juan. JetBlue carries more than 42 million
customers a year to 100+ cities in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin
America with an average of more than 1,000 daily flights. For more
information, please visit jetblue.com.
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