Over 700 employees to spend Tuesday, May 15, doing community service in
San
Francisco, South San Francisco, Oakland, and Marin
What:
Schwab's fourth annual employee volunteer day, May 15, 2007, in which
more than 700 employees will spread out across the city and at select
locations in the East Bay, North Bay and the Peninsula to do community
service for a wide variety of non-profit as well as municipal
organizations.
Charles Schwab Foundation President Carrie Schwab Pomerantz will be
available for media interviews at the Oakland Zoo, where she will be
working with other employee volunteers to restore animal habitats.
Other Schwab senior executives will be working at each of the projects
listed below and will also be available for media interviews.
Where:
Beginning around 9:30 a.m. and continuing through the day, Schwab
employees will tackle a wide variety of community projects, including:
* Removing invasive plants, maintaining trails and collecting and
propagating native plant seeds for the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy at Tennessee Valley in the Marin Headlands, and at
Golden Gate Park's Oak Woodlands and Muir Woods.
* Painting bedrooms at Larkin Street Youth Services at 1138 Sutter
Street in San Francisco.
* Doing construction and clean-up at two Habitat for Humanity
projects -- along DeLong Street in San Francisco's Outer Mission,
and at 440 Commercial Avenue in South San Francisco.
* Teaching the basics of money management to middle school students
in Oakland at Elmhurst Middle School (1800 98th Avenue), and in
San Francisco at KIPP SF Bay Academy (1430 Scott Street) and KIPP
Bayview Academy (1060 Key Avenue); and to high school students at
School of the Arts, 555 Portola Drive in San Francisco.
* Assisting with habitat restoration and garden maintenance on
behalf of Literacy for Environmental Justice, an environmental
education and youth organization within Bayview Hunters Point and
its surrounding communities, 1150 Carroll Avenue in San Francisco.
* Serving meals and assisting in the dining room at St. Anthony
Foundation at 121 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.
* Assembling tote bags for homeless children on behalf of Project
Night Night. Tote bags will contain a security blanket, a bedtime
story book and a small stuffed toy -- at Schwab's 211 Main Street
building in San Francisco, in the 1st floor auditorium.
* Preparing science kits on behalf of RAFT (Resource Area for
Teachers), which provides Bay Area teachers and community groups
with learning materials designed to enhance math, science,
technology and art programs in Bay Area schools -- at Schwab's
211 Main Street building in San Francisco, in the 1st floor
auditorium.
* Performing general cleaning and minor repairs at the USS Pampanito
submarine at the Hyde Street Pier on San Francisco's waterfront.
* Painting the interior of the School of the Arts cafeteria at 555
Portola Drive in San Francisco.
* Gardening at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
* Cleaning the fish kitchen at the Marin Mammal Center at 1065 Fort
Cronkite in Sausalito.
* Doing habitat restoration at the Oakland Zoo at 9777 Golf Links
Road in Oakland.
* Painting a mural at Oakland Technology Exchange-West (OTX), an
organization that refurbishes and provides computers to Oakland
classrooms and the homes and families of Oakland students. In
exchange for the mural, OTX will donate computers to Prescott
Elementary's new computer lab. -- 1680 14th St
* Painting at the South San Francisco Boys & Girls Club at 1950 Page
Street.
Why:
Schwab's annual employee volunteer day is known as "FERSTT Aid Day," to
reflect the corporate values for which Schwab employees are held
accountable in their daily work: Fairness, Empathy, Responsiveness,
Striving, Teamwork, and Trust.
In addition to Schwab employees' contribution of time on May 15, each
benefiting organization will receive a donation of $1,000 from Charles
Schwab Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting
and encouraging the philanthropy of Schwab employees.
CONTACT: Sarah Bulgatz of Charles Schwab, +1-415-636-5940,
Sarah.Bulgatz@schwab.com.
SOURCE Charles Schwab
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