Recently, the Bronto Community Service Committee held a school supply drive for a local elementary school. Bethesda Elementary School, located in Durham, NC, is in desperate need of basic school supplies. Seventy-eight percent of the students from that school live at or below the poverty line. It is well-known that teachers across the country routinely pay for extra supplies in their classrooms with their own money, a generous gesture that has too often become a necessity. However, when the need is so severe, most teachers simply can’t afford to make up that great a difference.
When the community committee received Bethesda’s call for help, Bronto answered. The entire company was challenged to donated the varied school supplies and books needed. To add a dose of healthy competition, Bronto CEO Joe Colopy pledged to the department with the most donations, a $100 Tyler’s Restaurant and Tap Room gift card. Between the desire to help local children and a bit of office competition, the school supplies soon began streaming in. Over two weeks, Brontos brought the following items to the office:
- 431 books/games
- 68 packs of paper
- 92 notebooks
- 223 folders
- 55 glue sticks
- 26 hand sanitizers
- 14 boxes of zip lock bags
- 32 rulers
- 85 packages of crayons/markers
- 90 boxes pencils/pens
- 27 boxes of tissues
- 171 miscellaneous items
That yielded a grand total of 1,314 school items donated! All departments contributed immensely to the overall goal. However, in a last-minute push for success, Marketing/Lead Qual emerged victorious!
5th place: Engineering – 135 items
4th place: Client Services – 183 items
3rd place: Sales – 258 items
2nd place: Product/Ops/AM Partner – 357 items
1st place: Marketing/Lead Qual – 381 items
We hope that the children at Bethesda get full use of these items as they pursue their education. Many thanks to the community committee and all Brontos who donated to this worthy cause. Between volunteer hours and item donations, Bronto is helping the community one glue stick at a time.
Caroline Smith
Marketing Operations Associate at Bronto
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Caroline is the Community Marketing Manager at Bronto. She is the editor and contributor to Brontonation, editor of the Bronto Blog, and manages all social media channels at Bronto Software. Caroline also serves on the Bronto Social Committee where she helps plan fun events for the Bronto Team.
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