Optomi’s 2017 Opt2give Day Marks Five Years of Business AND Giving Back
November 5, 2017
Opt2give Day 2017 was a huge success! Each Optomite’s giving spirit shone through as they volunteered at some of their favorite organizations across the country.
The Atlanta office partnered with PowerMyLearning, a national non-profit that partners with schools and districts in under-resourced communities to deliver technology to kids who might not otherwise have access to a computer. We spent the day at their warehouse assisting with a variety of tasks (broken up into teams), including warehouse clean-up and organization, computer testing and troubleshooting, computer and equipment cleaning, etc. We were able to help them knock out a ton of work that would normally take their team much longer, and hopefully will speed up getting computers into the hands of Atlanta-area kids!
Our Baltimore gang teamed up with Paul’s Place, an organization we have a long-standing relationship with that provides programs, services, and support to the area’s underprivileged residents. What we love most about Paul’s Place is their motto: treat everyone with dignity and respect – and we all have fun doing it!
Optomi’s Chicago team had an incredibly successful day giving back to our community at not one, but TWO, different organizations! We started their day off at the HOPE Center at Journeys, The Road Home in Palatine, IL. The HOPE Center is a day resource center that provides free services to the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. The team broke off into 3 groups, organizing food pantries, sorting donated clothes, helping the event coordinator with their Bid for HOPE event, and serving Chick-fil-A to the clients that came to the HOPE Center for a warm meal. The team made their way to Feed My Starving Children in Schaumburg, IL, where they packed 113 boxes of food, which consisted of 24,408 meals, and feeds 66 kids in Cuba for a year!!!
The Dallas market had another very successful event with the Amadi Guess Foundation at John R. Good Elementary School in Irving, TX, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide children from underserved communities access to nutritious meals. We weave together a net of community groups, activists, and food programs for children facing hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn, and play.
Optomi’s Detroit office volunteered our time and labor to a wonderful service organization, The Children’s Center of Detroit. During our Day of Service, we helped in a variety of ways: organizing and restocking bagged meals in the pantry, sorting donated clothes and setting up tables for clothing displays, touch-up painting of a mural, and soliciting plastic bag donations from a local general store.
The OC branch had an amazing day volunteering with Giving Children Hope. We were able to put together over 150 backpacks with a week’s worth of food for homeless children in the Orange County area. We are looking forward to working with them again!
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