Recent Community Outreach Examples

• Volunteering to make our environment better.
• Making America healthier -- individually, in teams, and as a company.

Human Arc Makes Strides for the American Cancer Society!

May 22, 2010:  It started as an idea to allow associates to cross departmental lines and share together the experience of volunteering at a single event!  It ended with more than 40 Human Arc associates and their friends and families participating in the Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk in downtown Cleveland on May 15th, 2010 (the event attracted over 3,700 participants from all over northeast Ohio).

Human Arc’s participation in the event was organized by the trio of Heather Ciriaco, Elizabeth McCullough and Andrea Owsiak.  The event gave participating associates the opportunity to volunteer their time at the registration tables along the route or participate in the walk.  Many chose to both volunteer and participate in the walk.  In the end, participating associates were able to raise over $1,100 for the American Cancer Society and contribute over 100 man hours of their time to a genuinely worthwhile cause.  Our associates look forward to participating at the Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk in 2011!

Hats off to these three organizers and all of our associates and their friends and family members who chose to make a real difference on May 15th!

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Human Arc Cleveland School Backpack Drive a Roaring Success!

August 31, 2009:  Conceived, organized and managed by Human Arc Marketing’s own Alicia Burton, the Human Arc School Backpack Drive aimed in the summer of 2007 to provide school-age children living in Cleveland area Salvation Army shelters a fully packed book bag when they return to school that August – September (tragically, well over 1,000 children in greater Cleveland return to school each year with no supplies whatsoever… not even a pencil).

Originally hoping to gather 100 book bags from Human Arc associates and friends of Alicia’s Progeny5129 community ministry, her outreach, as of mid-August of 2009 (the third year she has spearheaded this initiative), has resulted in the collection and distribution of well over 1,000 fully-packed book bags, complete with notebooks, paper, tissues, report folders, pencil boxes, scissors, glue, etc. 

Equally impressive, at least 80 Human Arc associates (25% of our company’s Cleveland employees!) have contributed filled book bags or money.  In fact, 50 associates have contributed multiple bags.  Even businesses with which Human Arc deals have become involved; of special note, HKM Direct Market Communications (Cleveland, OH) contributed funding to this year’s drive for over fifty book bags for disadvantaged elementary school kids in our area.

“I just want to thank all the wonderful, generous people who participated in this drive over the last three years,” said Alicia just after the close of the successful third year of the project.  “It shows the tremendous compassion and caring that we can have as individuals and as a group.  This means each of us is making a very real and positive difference in lives of disadvantaged children in our city.”  She added, “Special thanks go to Heather Bowers and Jeff Markle, both of whom have helped make the drive a great success, and we owe a big ‘thank-you’ as well to HKM Direct Market Communications for its generosity and participation.”

Congratulations to Alicia and all the rest of the kind people who have helped make this difference!

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