More than 3,600 employees at Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, donated a half day of their time to more than a hundred projects around the globe as part of the company's seventh annual Global Volunteer Day. The company's employees donated more than 12,000 hours of total volunteer time at 54 sites in 28 countries around the globe.
“Global Volunteer Day has long been the cornerstone of our efforts to support and strengthen our communities,” said Gregory T. Lucier, Chairman and CEO of Life Technologies. “Even as we expand our philanthropic efforts each year, and encourage our employees to dedicate their time year-round to volunteer opportunities, this day of giving as a global team will continue to be one of the company's proudest citizenship achievements.”
This year, Life Technologies launched the 'Giving back at LIFE' initiative, an employee program aimed at helping facilitate community service participation among Life Technologies' workforce. Since the beginning of 2010, employees have volunteered for more than 9,000 hours of community service outside of Life Technologies' corporate programs, putting them on track to complete more than 25,000 hours of community service this year.
Life Technologies' community relations and corporate social responsibility efforts have been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the Investor Relations Global Rankings, and in CRO Magazine's Top 100 corporate citizens.
On Global Volunteer Day, Life Technologies provides each of its employees with a half day of paid time to participate in volunteer projects, including:
United States:
• Hosting a Biotech Career Day for area high-school students with resume reviews, hands-on science experiments and a tour of the headquarters facilities in Carlsbad
• Collecting donations for Second Harvest Food Bank in Foster City, California
• Building bicycles for donation to local Big Brother and Big Sister organizations in Grand Island, New York
• Supporting Habitat for Humanities' efforts to build a community home inside a refurbished historic farmhouse in
Bedford, Massachusetts
International:
• Helping the visually challenged in Bangalore, India, with computer training
• Bush regeneration in a remote part of Kurringai National Park, near Sydney,
Australia
• Preserving local plants and animals in Darmstadt, Germany, by rehabilitating a local forest
Life Technologies Corporation is a global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition. The company's systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries that improve the quality of life.
Life Technologies customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics.
“Global Volunteer Day has long been the cornerstone of our efforts to support and strengthen our communities,” said Gregory T. Lucier, Chairman and CEO of Life Technologies. “Even as we expand our philanthropic efforts each year, and encourage our employees to dedicate their time year-round to volunteer opportunities, this day of giving as a global team will continue to be one of the company's proudest citizenship achievements.”
This year, Life Technologies launched the 'Giving back at LIFE' initiative, an employee program aimed at helping facilitate community service participation among Life Technologies' workforce. Since the beginning of 2010, employees have volunteered for more than 9,000 hours of community service outside of Life Technologies' corporate programs, putting them on track to complete more than 25,000 hours of community service this year.
Life Technologies' community relations and corporate social responsibility efforts have been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the Investor Relations Global Rankings, and in CRO Magazine's Top 100 corporate citizens.
On Global Volunteer Day, Life Technologies provides each of its employees with a half day of paid time to participate in volunteer projects, including:
United States:
• Hosting a Biotech Career Day for area high-school students with resume reviews, hands-on science experiments and a tour of the headquarters facilities in Carlsbad
• Collecting donations for Second Harvest Food Bank in Foster City, California
• Building bicycles for donation to local Big Brother and Big Sister organizations in Grand Island, New York
• Supporting Habitat for Humanities' efforts to build a community home inside a refurbished historic farmhouse in
Bedford, Massachusetts
International:
• Helping the visually challenged in Bangalore, India, with computer training
• Bush regeneration in a remote part of Kurringai National Park, near Sydney,
Australia
• Preserving local plants and animals in Darmstadt, Germany, by rehabilitating a local forest
Life Technologies Corporation is a global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition. The company's systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries that improve the quality of life.
Life Technologies customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics.