{"id":23557,"date":"2018-10-17T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2023-12-05T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:12:56","slug":"many-people-much-good-samsung-day-service-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/many-people-much-good-samsung-day-service-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many People Doing So Much Good: Samsung Day of Service 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giving back: two little words, one huge commitment. Giving back to the community is at the heart of Samsung Electronics America\u2019s<\/strong> philosophy of shared prosperity \u2013 and it\u2019s a concept that inspires so many of the company\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n

On an otherwise ordinary Friday in October, Samsung employees participated in the company-wide annual Day of Service<\/a>, creating something extraordinary and lasting. The day-long event covered 61 activities in New Jersey, New York City, Washington D.C., North Texas and Mountain View, California, across 50 local charity partners. Since the 2014 launch of Day of Service, U.S.-based Samsung employees have contributed nearly 128,000 hours of community service through the program. Among this year\u2019s activities were youth education and sports, food distribution to people in need, and workforce re-entry coaching. Samsung made participation easy, and the takeaway for many employees \u2013 the joy of giving back \u2013 was nothing short of profound.<\/p>\n

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New faces at headquarters: Students from Parsippany Hills High School arrive at Samsung Electronics America, in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey for a day of career mentorship from employees, as the eighth company-wide Day of Service gets underway. The students are involved in Junior Achievement of New Jersey<\/a>, a non-profit organization that helps young people develop the skills they need to succeed in today\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

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As part of the company-wide Day of Service, Tim Baxter, President & CEO of Samsung Electronics North America (second from left and center) and Samsung employees spend an afternoon with young people at Covenant House New Jersey<\/a>, which provides food, shelter and immediate crisis care to homeless, runaway and trafficked youth between the ages of 18 and 21. \u201cAt Samsung, we are committed to supporting programs im our local communities and we are dedicated to serving our local charity partners in the communities where we live and work,” said\u00a0Baxter<\/strong>. \u201cCovenant House helps homeless teens re-establish themselves and seeing the hope and promise within these teens is truly inspiring.”<\/p>\n

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Samsung employees also worked with Table to Table<\/a> at their weekly mobile produce market<\/a> in Newark. Table to Table is a food rescue program that collects prepared and perishable food that would otherwise be wasted and delivers it to organizations that serve the hungry. Surrounded by grocery bags filled and ready to be brought home by the markets participants, Emily Force (above), the Director of Corporate Engagement and Marketing Programs at Table to Table, displays the kind of nutritious food that\u2019s distributed. \u201cWe are so grateful to Samsung employees for coming to Newark and volunteering their time\u201d Force says<\/strong>. \u201cSamsung is a huge company that can make a big difference in people\u2019s lives when partnering with organizations like Table to Table.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Samsung\u2019s Michelle Ng (left) and Sarabpreet Singh (right) feed the resident chickens at the Table to Table Newark Mobile Market, after sorting and bagging prepared and perishable food for the hungry. \u201cTable to Table helps feed more than 700 families, and I\u2019m proud to be just an iota of that effort,\u201d Singh said<\/strong>. \u201cThanks to Samsung, we can get out and do what we are passionate about \u2013 give back to the communities we live and work in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Irwin Vogelman, of Center for Food Action<\/a>, in Saddle Brook, N.J., guided another team of Samsung employees to sort and bag food headed to individuals and families in need, many of them children and seniors. Vogelman, who\u2019s worked with Center for Food Action for 18 years, says community support is essential to the organization delivering on its mission to some 5,000 clients every month, most of them the working poor. \u201cSamsung\u2019s Day of Service enables us to get the food out to the community faster,\u201d Vogelman says<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re not heavy with staff, so we have to depend on hundreds and hundreds of volunteers each week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Samsung\u2019s Vallerie Walsh prepares to sort and bag food that\u2019s headed to people in need, at the Center for Food Action, in her home town of Saddle Brook, N.J. \u201cIt means a lot to me to give back to my community,\u201d Walsh says<\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019m so glad that Samsung does this every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sheer joy of learning, teaching and giving back was evident everywhere at Women Rising<\/a>, a Jersey City, N.J.-based organization that helps women and their families move from crisis to self-sufficiency with domestic violence services, permanent housing, workforce development and youth and family education and services.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople really do need help to overcome barriers that seem impossible,\u201d said Michelle Crossan, Vice President of Strategy and Transformation at Samsung Electronics America<\/strong>\u00a0(right). \u201cIt makes us proud to work for a company that gives us the time to help change people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The women behind Women Rising (clockwise from right): Rosemary Nwabueze, Director of Community Economic Development<\/a>; Roseann Mazzeo, Executive Director, seated; Ilene Singh, Job Developer, and Linda Nation, Manager of the Workforce Development Training Center<\/a>. As part of its many offerings, Women Rising provides help with job searching, workplace readiness and industry-specific training for a variety of industries, from hospitality to bookkeeping. \u201cLearning about Samsung employees\u2019 career paths is motivational and inspirational for our clients,\u201d says Nwabueze<\/strong>. \u201cWith the hands-on resume and interview sessions, they\u2019re making one-on-one connections and learning valuable skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Several groups of Samsung employees also spread out across New York City to give back \u2013 some taking to the soccer field with America SCORES<\/a> New York, an after-school program in under-resourced communities that combines soccer, poetry and service learning. \u201cWe spend a lot of time in the office working with tech, and it\u2019s great to come out and make a different kind of impact,\u201d says Samsung\u2019s Cleveland Bonner<\/strong> (pictured above).<\/p>\n

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Samsung employees in Dallas, Texas joined North Texas Food Bank<\/a> in their fight against hunger \u2013 sorting, boxing and bagging food for local residents in need. The North Texas Food Bank and its network of 200 partner agencies provide access to more than 190,000 meals each day for hungry children, seniors and families across 13 North Texas counties.<\/p>\n

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As education is a prominent focus for many of Samsung\u2019s philanthropic initiatives, partners like Mi Escuelita Preschool<\/a> benefited from a large group of Samsung\u2019s Dallas employees that helped them get ready for Halloween. Mi Escuelita Preschool teaches English to children from all cultures and prepares them for academic success.<\/p>\n

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And over in Mountain View, CA, Samsung Electronics America employees worked with My New Red Shoes<\/a>, to sort shoes and create custom cards for the children receiving fresh kicks. The organization provides new shoes and clothes for low-income, homeless and immigrant children in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n

At the end of the Day of Service, employees across Samsung\u2019s U.S. locations expressed their feelings of a job well done and the personal satisfaction of knowing that how they serve has ripple effects throughout their communities. \u201cI think the whole community benefits. That\u2019s what Samsung is all about,\u201d said Darlene Kumar<\/strong> at the Food Bank for New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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