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Global Volunteer Day aims to reach out and help build, maintain, and beautify the communities in which its employees and their families live and work through company-sponsored volunteerism.
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Annually, on the first Saturday in October Prudential hosts Global Volunteer Day, a day where more than 32,000 volunteers led by Prudential employees, along with their family and friends, are anticipated to donate hundreds of thousands of hours on projects designed to better the communities in which they live, work and play.
Global Volunteer Day is part of Prudential’s commitment to helping employees achieve a healthy work/life balance, while providing an opportunity to both volunteer in their community and spend time with their family.
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Global Volunteer Day is shaped by employees and their families’ interests. Prudential has found that its employees prefer to independently identify the nonprofit organizations or issues that will be the focus of their volunteer efforts. As a result, Global Volunteer Day is one of the most diverse and personally engaging corporate volunteer programs in existence – with projects ranging from building homes to tutoring students, collecting clothes, food or toys, and feeding the homeless.
Volunteer projects will take place in numerous small towns to major U.S. cities, including Newark, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles and Jacksonville. And the day’s global reach will be felt in more than 11 countries, including Canada, Japan, Korea, Italy, Ireland, Mexico and Poland, among others.
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Participation in Global Volunteer Day is supported throughout the entire Prudential organization. Individuals from all levels and business groups within the company work side-by-side. These types of programs are part of Prudential’s corporate culture and dedication to making a difference in communities where its employees live and work.
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Global Volunteer Day, formerly known as Prudential’s National Volunteer Day, originated out of the company’s Community Resources area. The first Prudential company-wide Volunteer Day was held on October 28, 1995. Starting that year with 5,000 employees participating in 100 projects, the daylong event now includes the participation of approximately 32,000 volunteers, led by employees along with their families and friends, at more than 800 projects in every state in the U.S. and in more than 11 countries around the globe. Since 1995, more than 310,000 employees, clients, customers, and friends have donated nearly 1.8 million volunteer hours to 7,600 projects around the globe.
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