Our corporate resources, combined with our passion for volunteerism, allow us to help communities in powerful ways. By promoting community partnerships, charitable donations, employee volunteerism and disaster support and relief, we're lending a hand to help make your community better - on campus and beyond.
On a beautiful sunny day in Boston, approximately 80 volunteers pitched in to help refurbish two Boston area elementary schools, Jackson Mann K-8 School and St. Columbkille Partnership School. Read more.
This month, the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area kicked off its annual campaign drive to raise funds for the Maine communities of Franklin County, Livermore and Livermore Falls. The festive fundraiser hopes to collect enough donated school supplies to stuff a bus. Read more.
Corban University Food Services Director and ARAMARK employee Tamra Taylor was recently honored by Habitat for Humanity for her work with the organization. Read more.
As part of our commitment to helping workforce readiness and preparing the workforce of the future, we continue our support of Junior Achievement (JA). JA is a partnership between the business community, educators and volunteers to inspire young people through hands-on, experiential programs that teach the key concepts of workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people. Read more.
The 2009 ARAMARK Building Community Tour began in San Antonio, TX in early April and in just over three months reached six US cities and made a successful international debut in London, where on June 5 more than 100 volunteers turned out to help at the "Arc in the Park," a play facility in East London. Read more.
Where can you feast on Italian, Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine and also learn about a variety of volunteer opportunities? At the University of Tennessee's Ready for the World Cafe, of course. Read more.
When news of the deadly Washington, DC, Metro train crash spread to nearby Catholic University of America, the ARAMARK Higher Ed team decided to do what it could to help. Read more.
ARAMARK at USF's Successful Transition After Graduation for Exceptional Students (STAGES) program is providing young adults with meaningful job-training experience and the help they need to find employment. So far, it's a huge success. Read more.
A May food drive organized by ARAMARK, Old Dominion University Parking Services and ODU's Center for Service and Civic Engagement was so successful in collecting food and raising money for the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia that it had to be extended. Read more.
Twelve tons of food from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania's campus dining service, ARAMARK, have been repackaged and distributed to those in need in the Bloomsburg community. The program, the Bloomsburg University Food Recovery Project, concluded its third year at the end of Earth Week, celebrated from April 20 to 24, 2009. Read more.
The USF Surf Club and USF Dining Services/ARAMARK have always had a tradition of giving back to the local community and helping those in need. Read more.
For the cadets in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Cincinnati, community service is a priority and a passion. On Sunday, March 1, 2009, the young cadets honored local veterans of the Joseph House by serving up a free spaghetti dinner. This is one of many events that Arnold Air Society has put together this year... Read more.
Boston University Dining Services participated in the First Annual Elizabeth Peabody House Holiday Food Drive this November. Several locations across ARAMARK's Northeast Region came together to collect and distribute approximately 5,500 Thanksgiving food items to feed over 1,250 people in the Greater Boston Area. Read more.
This November, more than 100 ARAMARK employees in greater Houston revitalized the Cleveland-Ripley Neighborhood Center, a vital community center that provided sanctuary for more than hundreds of families in the wake of Hurricane Ike. Volunteers brought new life to the center by revamping the gazebo, planting trees, renovating the garden, repainting the basketball court, adding artwork and undertaking other restorative projects. Read more.
ARAMARK at Florida State didn't sit back and relax after being named Tallahassee's Business Volunteer of the Year for their philanthropic work in 2007. Instead, they re-dedicated themlseves to giving back to their community.
Throughout 2008, their employees volunteered to support a variety of local charities and events, including Kids Incorporated of the Big Bend, the American Cancer Society, Second Harvest of the Big Bend and the Children's Miracle Network. Read more.
Wesley College students rose to the occasion to offer financial assistance to Haiti with the help of Aramark Food services! They were offered the chance to forgo a meal in Dulany Hall and donate the cost to Haiti relief. Over a two day period in January, a total of 248 students gave by fasting 342 cafeteria meals. Read more.
Green French fries? You bet! ARAMARK is working to implement a program that recycles spent frying oil so it can be used as biodiesel fuel.
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