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Walk a Mile in Her Shoes!
AVerMedia participated in the 7th annual "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event sponsored by the YWCA of Silicon Valley and held on April 22nd, 2009 in downtown San Jose. Over 500 participants came out to this event in an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault and violence in our community and to raise funds for the YWCA's rape crisis center. All male participants were asked to wear a pair of high heels and literally "walk a mile in her shoes" to show their support for this cause. AVerMedia donated over $1000 to the YWCA and had nine employee participants and many other employee supporters out on the course!
AVerMedia partners with Innvision to make a difference!
Innvision is an organization dedicated towards putting an end to poverty. They provide housing, food and resources to homeless men and women and help them back on their feet. Each month, employees donate their time to read and interact with children at the San Jose Innvision women’s shelter. AVerMedia provides children with their very own book and healthy snack to enjoy. Each reading session is followed by educational games and activities that the children can’t get enough of. Our goal is to build confidence in these children and to help educate them on valuable life lessons, while creating a supportive environment for the mothers who come to Innvision for help.
AVerMedia remembers those lost and fights back against Cancer and AIDS!
In 2007, employees, friends and family members participated in The Relay for Life along with hundreds of community members to raise money for the American Cancer Society. By keeping at least one person on the track for 24 hours, we were able to honor and remember those that have been lost to cancer and raise money to help find a cure. AVerMedia matched 100% of all money raised.
In 2006 we focused our efforts on raising money to help find a cure for AIDS. After months of generating donations, employees, family members and friends walked on a 10K journey through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. AVerMedia, along with the other 25,000 walkers raised $3.77 million dollars for the San Francisco Aids Foundation. AVerMedia matched 100% of donations raised by its employees and volunteers.
We support education and a sustainable future!
AVerMedia strives to make the environment a better place and is conscious about its corporate practices. Not only are we dedicated to a sustainable environment, we support others who are committed to protecting our environment. A $5K scholarship will be awarded to one graduating high school senior in the class of 2008 who has contributed towards a healthy and sustainable future. The deadline to submit an application is March 2008. Check out the scholarship section on our website and apply today!
Holiday Giving
In 2007 we organized company participation in several local events including the Thanksgiving Food Drive for the Milpitas Food Pantry, the Holiday Toy Drive for the Milpitas Fire Department and the NAIFA Silicon Valley Holiday Adopt-A-Family Program.
Looking to make the holiday season a little brighter for those in our community, we managed to fill our donation barrels with toys and canned food items for these local programs. Our canned food drive was a big success this year and we donated our items to the Milpitas Food Pantry. Every Thanksgiving the Milpitas Food Pantry provides over 300 special food boxes to local families in need. The Holiday Toy Drive was also a big success this year. We had donation barrels brought to our offices by members of the Milpitas Fire Department. Our employees filled the barrels to the top before the firemen returned to pick them up! The Silicon Valley Adopt-A-Family program gave our employees the opportunity to help one special local family in need by purchasing and donating items off of their holiday wish list. These gifts were delivered to the family before Christmas by members of AVerMedia’s Corporate Citizen Team.
Monetary Donations
AVerMedia empowers its team members to determine where donations should be allocated. The Corporate Citizen Team has recently chosen St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Y.M.C.A. and R.A.F.T. - Resource Area for Teachers as recipients for our donations. AVerMedia fully supports the impact and contributions of these organizations and plans on donating to many other great programs in the future.
“Eating For a Cause”
AVerMedia’s charitable contributions extend beyond our local community and into global organizations. We recently held a charity pie eating competition and invited all competitors to “eat for a cause”. The winner of the pie eating competition would receive a donation from AVerMedia to the approved non-profit organization of their choice! With this motivating the participants, the competition was fierce!
It ended in a tie between Jack Hu within our Security Division and Erica Sanchez within our Multimedia Division and donations were made to both organizations. Jack was competing for the “Prevent Cancer Foundation”. This is a non-profit organization with a mission of cancer prevention and early detection through research, education and community outreach. Erica was competing for “Hughes Extended Day/Latch Key Program”. This is a non-profit organization devoted to providing supervised activities for children needing child care before and after school hours. This program provides an answer for working parents who are concerned about leaving their child unsupervised and helps keep children off of the street by providing recreational and educational activities.
Spring Cleaning Event
AVerMedia hosted a Spring Cleaning event from April 14th through May 16th, 2008 to collect clothing donations for the Salvation Army and ladies’ suit donations for the Dress for Success Organization. The Salvation Army collects quality clothing, furniture and home goods donations for thrift stores across the country. One hundred percent of the proceeds from these thrift stores goes towards The Salvation Army’s Adult Rehabilitation Centers. These adult rehabilitation centers provide people with work therapy programs and vocational skills that help them to get back on their feet and become self-sustaining individuals. The Dress for Success Organization is a national non-profit organization that aims to help disadvantaged women by providing them with professional attire and career development tools to help them succeed in the workplace (http://www.dressforsuccess.org/).
The company was divided into several department teams with each team competing to see who could donate the most. The winning team would receive a free lunch outing to the restaurant of their choice! Weekly emails were sent out keeping participants up to date on who was winning. There were several teams in the running for first place, but in the end it was our Security Division that pulled ahead to win with over 600 donations in the event’s final week! During the five week timeframe, AVerMedia collected over 2,500 clothing item donations for the Salvation Army and 17 ladies’ suit donations for the Dress for Success Organization! We thank everyone for their enthusiastic participation; this event was a huge success!
Adopt – A – Soldier
AVerMedia proudly supports our troops! AVerMedia is a member of “Soldiers’ Angels”, a non-profit organization that sponsors deployed men and women of the US military and their families. The motto of this organization, “May No Soldier Go Unloved”, clearly shows its dedication to providing support and encouragement to our troops overseas. AVerMedia has volunteered through this organization to adopt a soldier. We are currently sending monthly care packages and weekly letters to our soldier in Iraq.
California’s Coastal Clean-Up Day
AVerMedia joined thousands of volunteers on September 20th for California’s 2008 Coastal Clean-Up Day! This event is held annually and volunteers from all over the state gather to collect trash and debris from beaches and lakes in order to protect local marine life and care for the environment. This year the event attracted more than 63,000 volunteers and collected over a million pounds of debris from our beaches. AVerMedia employees and their families joined other local volunteers in cleaning up Capitola Beach.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to show our support for this cause, AVerMedia participated in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on October 25th in San Jose! Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is a noncompetitive walk event and participants fundraise to help fight breast cancer and provide hope to people facing the disease. This event is held annually in multiple cities nationwide and all proceeds from the events benefit the American Cancer Society and breast cancer research. AVerMedia’s Corporate Citizen Team held weekly fundraising events and collected employee donations totaling over $2,300!
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