Pitney Bowes Launches Global Volunteer Month
April 05 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) announced the launch of a new Global
Volunteer Month program to engage employee volunteers in fun
literacy skill development activities to help close the achievement
gap and get students excited about reading. Building on the Pitney
Bowes Foundation’s support of Reading Is Fundamental, Pitney Bowes
plans to offer Volunteer Tool Kits that provide all of the
materials and supplies needed to implement the Share the Message:
READ! Volunteer Activity Guides and to distribute books for the
children to take home. The three guides -- Animal Communications,
Languages of the World, and Communicating Through the Arts – each
feature a children’s book and related arts and crafts activities
that are appropriate for students in grades K-5.
Pitney Bowes employees are encouraged to reach out to their
local school or community center to conduct in-school or
after-school literacy activities with young students using the
guides. Each activity can be conducted in less than an hour.
Volunteers will read the featured children’s book to the students,
and then conduct the related arts and craft project. At the end of
each session, students will be able to select their own book to
take home to read from a selection of related age-appropriate
books.
Pitney Bowes has confirmed that employee volunteer teams in at
least five U.S. cities will participate in the 2011 Global
Volunteer Month program featuring the RIF Volunteer Activity
Guides. Employee volunteer teams in the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, and India have also committed to adapting the Share the
Message: READ! Volunteer Activity Guides to meet their local needs.
Employee volunteers outside of the U.S. will work with local
charity partners to source the materials and supplies and
age-appropriate books, the costs of which will be covered by Team
Volunteer Grants from the Pitney Bowes Foundation. This collective
effort advances the company’s philanthropic focus on employee
community involvement and literacy and education initiatives that
help to close the academic achievement gap.
As Pitney Bowes’ Executive Sponsor, Chuck Johnson, Vice
President, Human Resources, Mailing Solutions Management, states
“the great part about Share the Message: READ! is that employees
can make a meaningful difference in the lives of children in a very
short time. Employees will have all the materials they need to
create an effective and engaging learning experience for these
young students. The children benefit from the program in numerous
ways, and our employees have fun while building stronger
communities and helping develop the next generation.”
Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Foundation have been proud
supporters of Reading Is Fundamental since 2004. In 2009, the
Pitney Bowes Foundation built on Pitney Bowes’ extensive history of
RIF support by funding the creation of the Share the Message: READ!
communication resource guide and accompanying book
collections, which provided sets of high-quality books for 50 RIF
sites in Indianapolis and New York City. Pitney Bowes then
sponsored a series of related family literacy nights in Corona CA,
Atlanta GA, Washington DC, and Dallas TX. More than 100 Pitney
Bowes employees volunteered at these events, celebrating reading
with more than 2,200 attendees. Because the events were so highly
rated by students, parents, teachers, school administrators and
volunteers, the Pitney Bowes Foundation decided to fund the new
communications-themed volunteer activity guides and related
toolkits to enable employee volunteers in virtually any company
location to lead similar projects in their communities.
About Reading is Fundamental, Inc. (RIF):
Founded in 1966, motivates children to read by working with
them, their parents, and community members to make reading a fun
and beneficial part of everyday life. RIF’s highest priority is
reaching underserved children from birth to age 8. Through
community volunteers in every state and U.S. territory, RIF
provided 4 million children with 15 million new, free books and
literacy resources last year. For more information and to access
reading resources, visit RIF’s website at www.rif.org.
About Pitney Bowes:
Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes
provides software, hardware and services that integrate physical
and digital communications channels. Long known for making its
customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping
other companies grow their business through advanced customer
communications management. Pitney Bowes is a $5.4 billion company
with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every
connection is a new opportunity™. www.pb.com.
About the Pitney Bowes Foundation:
The Pitney Bowes Foundation is a private entity with a mission
to support education, literacy and the diverse community interests
of Pitney Bowes employees. We commit our resources to closing the
achievement gap and preparing the workforce of tomorrow. For
information about these programs and other Pitney Bowes Corporate
Citizenship and Philanthropy initiatives, please visit
pb.com/community.
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