The mission of the SolidWorks
Community Giving Program is to:
Give back to the local community by leveraging the success of SolidWorks
To motivate and support our employees in their endeavors within their
communities and charitable organizations which reflect our mutual causes
Support SolidWorks business and communities
Criteria
The SolidWorks Community Giving
Program supports a variety of worthwhile programs and organizations, according
to the following criteria:
Employee Involvement: SolidWorks and it's employees
are committed to causes which enable our combined resources to have
a multiplying effect resulting in a larger impact of giving.
Impact: Our contributions result in a significant
difference.
Geography: Our chosen programs help to strengthen
from within the SolidWorks community and beyond.
Business Related Technologies: SolidWorks supports
education in areas related to our products technologies.
Below are examples
of organizations that recently received support from the SolidWorks Community
Giving Program.
Pan
Massachusetts Challenge
The mission of the Pan Massachusetts
Challenge is to raise money for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute. PMC has become the largest weekend fundraising event in the
country. A bike-a-thon that crosses the state of Massachusetts , the event
began in 1980 as a group of 36 friends -- and now involves a cast of thousands
of cyclists, volunteers, corporate sponsors and individual donors. This
charity has raised over $1 45 million for cancer research and treatment
since its inception with 99 cents of every dollar raised going directly
to the charity.
SolidWorks
participates in the Pan Massachusetts Challenge each year with a
team of riders and volunteers and has raised over $550,000 for this great
charity over the past four years . In 2006, we will have over 75 riders
with a goal of raising a minimum of $350,000. To learn more about Team
SolidWorks' participation in the Pan Massachusetts Challenge or to donate
to or sponsor Team SolidWorks, please go to www.teamsolidworks.com
.
SolidWorks helps out with WGBH's
pledge night on a regular basis. WGBH Boston consists of three public
radio stations (WGBH 89.7 in Boston, WCAI 90.1 and WNAN 91.1 on Cape Cod
and the Islands) and three public TV stations (Boston's WGBH 2 and 44,
WGBY 57 in Springfield, MA) plus their digital counterparts. WGBH productions
are seen and heard on stations across the U.S. In fact, WGBH has created
nearly a third of PBS's prime-time TV and online lineups.
Learn more about how you can
support WGBH by visiting their website at http://www.wgbh.org.
Click here to view pictures of
SolidWorks employees lending a ha
The Concord Orchestra
is made up of musicians primarily from Concord, Massachusetts and surrounding
towns led by conductor Richard Pittman. The Concord Orchestra's season
consists of three regular concerts in the fall, winter, and spring,
a Family Concert in December, and a Pops Concert in May. Most concerts
are held at 51 Walden
St. in downtown Concord, but we sometimes use the Sunbridge Auditorium
when we needed a larger hall. To
learn more about the Concord Orchestra, click here.
Habitat for Humanity International
(HFHI) is a non-profit ecumenical housing ministry. Habitat seeks to
eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make
decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Learn more about how
you can help Habitat for Humanity -North Central Massachusetts by visiting
their website at http://www.ncmhabitat.org.
Click here to view pictures of
SolidWorks employees building a house for Habitat for Humanity.
Memorial
Scholarship Fund in
honor of Joe Greco (1963 – 2004)
Joe Greco was well known and loved throughout the CAD industry as
a prolific writer and industry analyst. He was a frequent contributor
to CADalyst, Cadence, Computer Graphics World, Design Product News,
Desktop Engineering, and Machine Design magazines. He was also the
president of the CAD Society.
Design that Matters
(DtM), a Massachusetts nonprofit, helps underserved communities realize
an improved quality of life by creating products and services that meet
needs identified by the communities themselves.
DtM works with
NGOs, corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising
student innovations result in products and services for communities
in need. Since its launch at MIT in 2000, DtM has worked with over 300
university engineering and business students to develop dozens of prototypes
that promise to improve thousands of lives.
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