GSM Charitable Event

Make a Difference in a Day
January 31, 2007

You can make a difference in a day. That’s the message sent by over 150 Bard employees from around the globe who gave up their day of recreation during January ’s Global Sales Meeting, choosing instead to visit Orlando’s Primrose Center to spend time with the center’s disabled clients and to roll up their sleeves to help out with some much-needed maintenance.

Through a comprehensive array of services including vocational training, job placement, behavioral therapies and housing options, the Primrose Center (www.primrosecenter.org) empowers people with disabilities to discover and explore new opportunities, creating positive differences in their lives – a fitting choice for this, the first of 100 “Acts of Kindness” planned by employees to celebrate Bard’s centennial.

Four busloads of participants were assigned to nine different teams, each headed by a senior executive and each with a unique mission: priming and painting doors, poles, and the inside and outside of the cafeteria, planting and landscaping, pouring concrete for a patio, digging trenches for flood relief, and participating in arts and crafts projects with the center’s disabled clients.

“We often say that Bard does well by doing good,” said Jim Natale, President, Corporate Healthcare Services, as he presented the Primrose Center with a check for $15,000 from the Bard Foundation to aid in the construction of a new Resource Center. “Looking around, I’d say you’ve all done a lot of good today.”  

Click here to view 5 minute Recap of Bard's 1st Official Act of Kindness

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