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CA’s Together in Action connects employees to the community
By Susan Thomas
For the last four years Center member CA, Inc. has sponsored CA Together in Action (CTA), a month-long program to support non-profit organizations around the world. Launched in 2006 as a two-week event, the program expanded to a month to allow as many employees as possible to participate. During this time CA organizes team volunteer projects that give employees the opportunity to take a day out of the office and volunteer in the community in activities that range from building houses and making hospital visits, to packing food for homeless families and helping non-profits with marketing and IT projects.
Once again 2009 was a banner year for CTA, bringing in higher participation levels than in years past. In total, the 2009 program included more than 1,400 employees taking part in 64 projects across the globe. This is an increase of more than 200 people from last year representing more than 5,500 volunteer hours given to help local organizations.
As a global company with offices in more than 46 countries, CA has supported the communities where its employees live and work since it began 30 years ago. CA’s vice-president of communications and community affairs, Anne Marie Agnelli, who joined the company in late 2003, has been working to make its community affairs more strategic and to tie it back to employee engagement.
CA Together, the company’s global community relations program, is driven by a core philanthropic focus on improving educational opportunities for underserved children and young people. The program encompasses employee giving programs, community grants, IT program offerings and corporate contributions.
CA also supports a limited number of organizations and programs in the areas of health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment. Through strategic partnerships with a limited number of nonprofit organizations, CA can provide significant resources to achieve long-term and meaningful results.
“One of the hallmarks of a great company is just how much its employees give back to the communities in which they serve. Volunteerism is strongly supported at CA, and each year our employees rise to the occasion and give more and more of their time to help those in need,” said Bill Hughes, Corporate SVP, Global Communications for CA. “In a very challenging economic environment, we are gratified that CA employees have given so much of their time individually and collectively to make so many local communities around the world better places to live.”
