Motorola Mobilizes 500+ Employees to Volunteer in Broward County on Global Day of Service
Employees in 47 countries give local communities a boost
PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 500 Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) employees will volunteer in Broward County on October 10, 2007 on the company's second annual Global Day of Service. The local work is part of a larger event mobilizing more than 11,000 Motorola employees in 47 countries to volunteer in their local communities.
The Motorola employees will take a half day off work to volunteer at more than 300 projects that address a variety of community concerns, including education, environmental sustainability and social services.
Locally, more than a dozen parks and non-profit organizations will benefit from the Motorola's work at these local projects:
-- Park clean-up and planting projects at Tree Tops Park in Davie, Fern
Forest in Coconut Creek, Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach, Secret
Woods Nature Center in Dania, and Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek.
-- Maintenance and painting at Kids in Distress in Wilton Manors.
-- Maintenance, painting and laying down mulch on the playground at
Children's Choice School in Fort Lauderdale.
-- Assembling a new exhibit at Young at Art Children's Museum in Davie.
-- Delivering donated clothing to Women in Distress in Fort Lauderdale.
-- Serving food to the homeless at Broward Partnership for the Homeless in
Lauderhill.
-- Maintenance projects at the Broward Outreach Center in Hollywood.
"Motorola cares about the communities we serve, and we're using both our minds and our muscles to show it," said Ed Zander, Motorola chief executive officer. "We are proud of the talent, creativity and dedication our employees demonstrate in the community on this day and throughout the year."
Thousands of Motorola employees also will participate in in-office projects such as a global giving drive to benefit the United Nation Children's Fund's (UNICEF) School-in-a-Box program, which is used around the world to get children back to school in the first 72 hours of an emergency. Each kit contains supplies and materials for a teacher and up to 80 students. This Global Day of Service campaign complements a grant of $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for the School-in-a-Box program by the
Motorola Foundation, which has supported education and community services worldwide since 1953.
Visit http://www.motorola.com/globaldayofservice to learn more about Motorola's Global Day of Service.
About the Motorola Foundation
The Motorola Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. With employees located around the globe, Motorola seeks to benefit the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation and engaging stakeholders. The Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. For more information, on Motorola Corporate and Foundation giving, visit http://www.motorola.com/giving.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.8 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com.
PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 500 Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) employees will volunteer in Broward County on October 10, 2007 on the company's second annual Global Day of Service. The local work is part of a larger event mobilizing more than 11,000 Motorola employees in 47 countries to volunteer in their local communities.
The Motorola employees will take a half day off work to volunteer at more than 300 projects that address a variety of community concerns, including education, environmental sustainability and social services.
Locally, more than a dozen parks and non-profit organizations will benefit from the Motorola's work at these local projects:
-- Park clean-up and planting projects at Tree Tops Park in Davie, Fern
Forest in Coconut Creek, Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach, Secret
Woods Nature Center in Dania, and Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek.
-- Maintenance and painting at Kids in Distress in Wilton Manors.
-- Maintenance, painting and laying down mulch on the playground at
Children's Choice School in Fort Lauderdale.
-- Assembling a new exhibit at Young at Art Children's Museum in Davie.
-- Delivering donated clothing to Women in Distress in Fort Lauderdale.
-- Serving food to the homeless at Broward Partnership for the Homeless in
Lauderhill.
-- Maintenance projects at the Broward Outreach Center in Hollywood.
"Motorola cares about the communities we serve, and we're using both our minds and our muscles to show it," said Ed Zander, Motorola chief executive officer. "We are proud of the talent, creativity and dedication our employees demonstrate in the community on this day and throughout the year."
Thousands of Motorola employees also will participate in in-office projects such as a global giving drive to benefit the United Nation Children's Fund's (UNICEF) School-in-a-Box program, which is used around the world to get children back to school in the first 72 hours of an emergency. Each kit contains supplies and materials for a teacher and up to 80 students. This Global Day of Service campaign complements a grant of $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for the School-in-a-Box program by the
Motorola Foundation, which has supported education and community services worldwide since 1953.
Visit http://www.motorola.com/globaldayofservice to learn more about Motorola's Global Day of Service.
About the Motorola Foundation
The Motorola Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. With employees located around the globe, Motorola seeks to benefit the communities where it operates. The company achieves this by making strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation and engaging stakeholders. The Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially science, technology, engineering and math programming. For more information, on Motorola Corporate and Foundation giving, visit http://www.motorola.com/giving.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.8 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com.
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