Volunteering is an important way to give back and connect with your community. For some students around the world, donating your time and skills is a requirement for graduation; for others it’s an activity they participate in outside of school. Volunteering is something you can do your entire life. If giving back is important to you, make it a priority when you start your career. There’s a growing trend of organizations and companies giving their employees the encouragement and flexibility in their schedules to volunteer.
Employees at Lenovo are encouraged to volunteer 8 hours per quarter through a volunteer benefit, with additional dollars given that they can award to their favorite charity when hours are logged.
Once a year, Lenovo employees organize a volunteer-led month of service called the “Love on Month of Service”. The 2022 global event stretched for 4 weeks from September 15 – October 15
Lenovo employees provide access to education and technology to those who need it most. This year, 73 offices around the world joined in the effort. Nearly 4,000 employee volunteers gave 16,000+ hours to their local community, directly impacting more than 62,000 individuals through service. This is the sixth year in a row and Lenovo employee volunteers have impacted over a quarter million lives around the world.
“Our impact is a credit to our employees. We have project leaders in offices like Glasgow, Bratislava, Paris, Jakarta and Mexico City who have been leading projects at their sites since 2017,” said Calvin Crosslin, Lenovo Foundation President and a Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Lenovo “Our employees continually demonstrate their appetite to give back, and the Love on Month of Service is about empowering these leaders with the resources they need to make an impact.”
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This article originally appeared in StoryHub: https://news.lenovo.com/volunteers-increase-impact-love-on-month-of-service/
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