H5 and its employees have participated in volunteer activities benefiting the following organizations:
March 2008: Employees donated nearly $1,715.00 to
the American Cancer Society's Daffodil Days campaign, supporting the nation's
largest non-governmental organization's groundbreaking research and advocacy
efforts. Donations also allowed ACS to deliver thousands of daffodils
to cancer patients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.cancer.org
May 2007: H5 employees donated $1,157 in
financial contributions and books to a Berkeley-based nonprofit supporting
the inauguration of a community library in an underdeveloped neighborhood
in Haiti. The organization’s Executive Director gave a presentation to
employees outlining the need for such a facility, and H5 matched donations
up to $1000, bringing the total donated to $2,157. The funds raised will
provide wireless internet connection for the library, and have earned
H5 the title of 2007 Annual Sponsor for the organization.
http://www.haitisoleil.org/
April 2007: To celebrate Earth Day, a team of 10 H5ers
participated in an event with the California State Parks Foundation and
Literacy for Environmental Justice through their Bay Youth Program. The
team carpooled to Candlestick Point and spent the morning putting the
finishing touches on the beautiful Community Garden there. They moved
granite benches, excavated and graded a barbeque area, built raised garden
beds, and became close friends with shovels, wheelbarrows and pickaxes.
http://calparks.org/programs/environmental-ed/bay-youth.html
http://www.lejyouth.org/
March 2007: Employees donated several large boxes of
toiletries and other items for distribution to 10 local homeless agencies,
to assist their clients' preparation for the job interview process and
transition to the workplace.
http://www.workingessentials.org
February 2007: Employees donated nearly $2,000.00 to
the American Cancer Society's Daffodil Days campaign, supporting the nation's
largest non-governmental organization's groundbreaking research and advocacy
efforts. Donations also allowed ACS to deliver thousands of daffodils
to cancer patients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.cancer.org
December 2006: Employees donated over $1500.00 and 124
pounds of food to assist the nearly 150,000 people in San Francisco who
live with the daily threat of hunger.
http://www.sffoodbank.org
July 2006: The H5 team of 17 members raised nearly $10,000
(including a matching grant from H5) and participated in the 20th Annual
AIDS Walk San Francisco, a fundraising event that benefits AIDS service
organizations. Smaller H5 teams also participated in 2001 and 2002.
http://www.aidswalk.net/sanfran/
June 2006: Employees donated books to the San Francisco
Public Library, Oakland's Lincoln Child Center, and the East Palo Alto
Charter School.
http://www.friendsandfoundation.org/
http://www.lincolncc.org/index.html
http://www.epacs.org/
May 2006: An H5 team volunteered at the Hamilton Family
Center in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Working alongside
volunteers from two other corporate sponsors, Center staff and residents,
H5 painted and cleaned areas of the Center badly in need of refurbishment.
http://www.rebuildingtogethersf.org/
September 2005: In response to Hurricane Katrina, H5
employees donated $5,179, matched by H5, for a total of $10,358.00, to
these organizations supporting the relief efforts on the Gulf Coast.
http://www.secondharvest.org/
http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.hsus.org/
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
December 2001: H5 employees donated toys totaling $864
to the Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a San Francisco Sunset
District home for boys and girls between ages 7 and 14 with severe emotional
disabilities stemming from child abuse.
http://www.edgewoodcenter.org/
December 2001: A gift of $864.00, matching the amount
donated by employees to Edgewood Center, was donated to Glide Memorial
Church, an organization dedicated to providing meals, health care, housing,
family services, and job training to San Francisco's most vulnerable citizens.
http://www.glide.org/
Read the H5 Community Involvement Committee's Mission Statement.
