Bronto Software was busy in 2011. In May we released a major application upgrade, we nearly doubled our office space, and grew our team by 40%! But one of our biggest company acheivements can be found in the hours we spent volunteering for local Durham Non-Profits. Bronto gives every employee two half days (8 hours total on Bronto time) to use towards one of our many volunteering events. Community involvement is baked into Bronto’s culture and we love it!
Over the last year, we worked with 9 amazing non-profits. The goals the community committee set for the year were challenging, but achievable. We hoped to have 22 volunteer opportunities and we had 33! We wanted at least 50% of the Bronto hours to be used and we had 80%! We were ambitious and wanted 100% Bronto participation, we came just shy of that with 86%. We aimed to have 600 volunteer hours (on Bronto’s time) to be used, and surpassed that with 636 hours or almost 16 weeks of Bronto’s time!
Some of our volunteering efforts benefited:
Emily K Center Fitness Camp – As one of our 2011 focus organizations, Brontos donated school supplies and helped supervise and facilitate the Spring Break fitness camp at The Emily K Center in Durham for over 35 1st-8th graders.
Brian Hanyok and a few of the kids from Emily K Center with new school supplies!
Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC – We volunteered 140 hours that included stuffing backpacks, bagging food, and during the Heart of Carolina Food Drive volunteers collected donations and encouraged others to donate.
Habitat For Humanity of Durham - Throughout the year, Bronto provided volunteers to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity to help build and renovate houses in Durham. In 2011, we had 8 build days and 216 volunteer hours!
(Pictured left to right) Paul McCall, Bucky Schwarz, Dan Therrien & Jameson Loop working hard during a Habitat build.
SEEDS Community Garden – In honor of our herbivore namesake, Brontos learned how to care for the earth, helped plant and winterize Durham’s SEEDS community garden. We volunteered 120 hours at SEEDS!
Fawn Young and Kevin Thornton at SEEDS Garden doing an interpretation of "American Gothic"
American Red Cross – Every quarter, the American Red Cross comes to the American Tobacco Campus (where Bronto’s HQ is located). This year, we had 32 volunteers give the gift of life during these opportunities.
Another way that Bronto helps the community is with sponsored accounts. A sponsored account gives a local non-profit the ability to use Bronto’s marketing platform at no cost. Many organizations use Bronto to drive donations, communicate with volunteers or spread the word about their cause. This year we had our first ever Non-Profit Round Table and invited our sponsored accounts to join us. It was a great experience for non-profit marketers to learn tips from each other, have a strategy session and to learn more about Bronto.
Thank you to all the Brontos who donated their time and efforts to these very worthy causes! The Bronto Community Committee is already working on a full schedule of community events in 2012, so stay tuned!
Sara McDaniel
Marketing Associate
Community Committee Member
Natural Red-Head
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