Volunteering to Make Our Communities a Better Place in a Better World
At BetterWorld Telecom, our employees volunteer at least one-half day each month to non-profit causes in the communities we serve. Here are some examples:
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.
Heart of America Foundation
Founded in 1997, Heart of America's mission is to teach the values at the heart of America and to help people, particularly children, learn that they help themselves when they help others. HOA's goal is to give children everywhere the tools they need to read, succeed and make a difference. Their programs uniquely combine character education, literacy, and service learning. We are a national, nonsectarian, non-partisan, nonprofit, humanitarian organization.
President Matt Bauer (left) and Director of Sales John McCormick (right) reading to students at the Gage Eckington School in Washington, DC — part of a 2006 visit with the Heart of America Foundation
The Patricia M. Sitar Center for Children and the Arts
The Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts is a community arts center located in the multicultural Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. It focuses primarily on programs and activities for at-risk children, youth, and their families but reaches out to all community members through shared experiences in the arts.
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.
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
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Through entrepreneurship education, NFTE helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Since 1987, NFTE has reached over 100,000 young people, trained more than 3,200 Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and continually improved its innovative entrepreneurship curriculum.