Volunteering to Make Our Communities a Better Place in a Better World
At BetterWorld Telecom, our employees can volunteer up to two days each month to non-profit causes in their communities. Here are some examples:
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
Founded in 1970, Berkeley Food and Housing Project has worked to ease and end the crisis of homelessness for men, women, and children in the Berkeley community.
With programs ranging from free meal service to permanent supportive housing, BFHP provides services with compassion to foster a nurturing, healing environment that can effectively end an individual’s cycle of homelessness.
Social Media Manager Salem Kimble serves up salad at the Berkeley Food and Housing Project in Berkeley, CA.
The Nature Conservancy
The Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Since 1951, they have protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide — and operate more than 100 marine conservation projects globally. They work in all 50 states and in more than 30 countries — protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs.
Ashoka Youth Venture
Ashoka Youth Venture enables young people to learn early in life that they can lead social change. Youth Venture invests in teams of young people to start and lead their own social ventures around the world. The program has built a powerful network of young changemakers across the globe in the US, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, India, South Africa, Thailand, France, Germany, and Spain. Through changing the world around them, these young people grow up practicing applied empathy, teamwork, and leadership—the underlying skills needed to make change. Learn more at www.ashoka.org/youthventure
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit housing ministry, seeking to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat has built more than 175,000 houses around the world, providing more than 750,000 people in over 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
The BetterWorld team taking a breather after helping on the
Habit for Humanity House that Tech Built in Fairfax, Virginia
Food & Friends
Along with nutrition counseling, Food & Friends prepares, packages and delivers meals and groceries to more than 1,350 people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses throughout Washington, DC, seven counties of Maryland and seven counties and six independent cities in Virginia. Since 1988, Food & Friends has provided food and companionship to our clients, their loved ones and caregivers.
BALLE
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) is comprised of more than 80 place-based socially responsible business networks working to bring about systemic changes in our country's financial system. BALLE brings together independent business leaders, economic development professionals, government officials, social innovators, and community leaders to build local living economies. They also provide local, state, national, and international resources to their members. BetterWorld has helped found two chapters of BALLE and is proud to give both time and resources to supporting this inspiring and changemaking organization. Some of their campaigns include: Buy Local, Move Your Money, and 10% Shift.
