Bronto Software: Helping the Community

As much as we work hard to play hard here at Bronto, we are focused on being able to give back to the local community. Our goal is to enrich and improve the lives of people living and working in our community through donations of time, service and fundraising.

This year, the Bronto Community Committee decided to pick up the pace and offer employees more opportunity to give back to Durham. So far, Bronto employees have participated in 12 different activities the first 6 months of the year. The key to this year’s theme was to provide Brontos with unique opportunities and add additional organizations to our overall nonprofit mix.

Here are a few of the fun things we’ve been up to so far…

In January, we kicked off the year with a Bronto employee fundraiser to assist Red Cross with the Haiti Relief efforts. We attained 350% of our goal in the first 48 hours and over 50% of Brontos participated.

We joined forces for a day at the ballpark with The Miracle League of the Triangle, a local nonprofit that provides children with special needs the opportunity to play baseball. A team of Brontos buddied up with the participating kids for a game of America’s favorite past-time. It was great afternoon and a chance for Bronto to get acquainted with a new organization in the community.

Another nonprofit that we have started working with this year is The Emily K Center, whose mission is to inspire economically disadvantaged students to dream big, strive for excellence in school and life, build strong character, and reach their highest potential as our future generation of citizen leaders. We sent a team of volunteers over to participate in their first ever, fitness camp. We spent the morning and afternoon sessions helping the kids with arts and crafts, playing board games and breaking a sweat in basketball, dancing and a game of tag.

Habitat for Humanity of Durham, is an organization that we’ve been involved in for for quite some time. Perhaps it is the building of homes, tear down of backyard decks, or the painting of living rooms, it has always been a service of choice for Brontos. This year is no different. We’ve volunteered for a few projects this year that have allowed us to get our hand’s dirty in helping us restore the lives and communities around us.

Though we’ve been pretty busy, we’re only getting started. We have a hectic schedule of fun community service events planned for the rest of the year. Stay tuned…

Shannon Holato
Community Service Committee