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Avnet Contributions Council Gives $4K Grant to Maggie's Place
 
EM's Cleveland Employees Help Local Children
 
EBV Supports Children's Home in Germany
 
EBV's Special Gift to the Orphans at Clemens-Maria (Germany)
 
Avnet's Zalesky Honored for Volunteerism
 
Silica's Soccer Team Takes German Bundesliga by Storm
 
Avnet Awards $10,000 Grant to ecademie High School
 
Avnet Memec and EM EMEA 'Take Their Marks' for Kids
 
Avnet Provides Relief for Central U.S. Flood and Tornado Victims (USA)
 
Richardson Employees Help 700 Students Start School Year with Supplies (Richardson, Texas, USA)
 
EM EMEA Raises Awareness and Money for Cytomegalovirus (Palaiseau, France)
 
Avnet Tech Games Computers Help Chandler Teens (Chandler, Ariz., USA)
 
Westminster Olympics Use Fun to Raise Money for Charity (Westminster, Colo., USA)
 
Volunteerism Incorporated into Summer Internship Program (Phoenix, Ariz., USA)
 
EBV Employees Save Rainforest While Getting in Shape
 
Avnet Azure Gives Give of Sight to Singapore Elderly
 
TS Focuses on Children and Education in the Czech Republic and Benelux
 
Avnet Helps Tempe Students Achieve (Tempe, Ariz., USA)
 
EBV Sponsors Local Youth Football Club (Germany)
 
Avnet Employees Worldwide Send Aid to Chinese Earthquake Victims
 
UK Stevenage Employees Take to the Street to Help Homeless
 
EBV Supports Young Engineers in the UK
 
Game, Set, Match for EBV
 
EBV's 'ECOmise it' Campaign Benefits Environment and Nature Organizations
 
Irvine Uses Clever Fundraisers to Help Coworkers in Need (Calif.,USA)
 
Westminster Wraps Eco Stewardship Month by Wrapping Trees (Colo., USA)
 
Employees Cook Up Funds for Coworkers and Competitors in Need
 
Avnet Tech Games Expands to Include More Arizona College Students
 
Employee Efforts to Beautify Phoenix School Wins Award
 
Baltimore Employees Walk for Leukemia Cure
 
St. Vincent de Paul
 
California Employees Spring into Action to Fight Cancer
 
Silica Sponsored and Coached Team Wins Championship
 
EM Donation Helps Dallas, Texas Teens
 
Avnet Toronto's Donations Make a Difference
 
TS Netherlands Employees Trek for Children
 
Donated Items Keep People Warm, Fed and Merry During Holidays: Avnet Employees Donate Items to Keep People Warm, Fed and Merry During Holidays.
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Raise Money, Shine Spotlight: Adding Charity Component to Holiday Events Made Season Brighter.
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Employee Volunteerism Spreads Holiday Cheer: Employee Volunteerism Spreads Holiday Cheer.
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EBV Kids Cup: Germany. EBV Kids Cup.
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Salvation Army's Christmas Angel Program (Phoenix, Ariz., USA). The Avnet Harbour team decided to donate proceeds from a fundraising event to the Salvation Army's Christmas Angel program.
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Avnet UK Raises £6500 for Children with Autism: Tree houses aren't just for kids - something Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) UK found during its fundraising event for TreeHouse.
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EBV Turns Community Support Up to 10: Youth sports teams got a boost and an exchange program between a school in Cape Town, South Africa and one in the United Kingdom scores a goal.
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Avnet Azure Helps Sunbeam Children Shine: Avnet Azure employees helped put smiles on the faces of children staying at the Sunbeam Place Children's Home.
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Belgium Fries Up Funds: The way to men's hearts truly is through their stomachs - something Avnet Belgium employees found when organizing a "fritkot" which raised $3,100 to aid widows in Congo.
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Avnet Azure Visits Singapore's Elderly: House calls may be obsolete for the medical profession, but not for 25 employees and their family members who delivered groceries and visited with elderly citizens in Singapore.
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Old Phones Raise Money: Rather than let old phones gather dust or take up space in a drawer, Avnet employees put them to better use by donating them to people in need.
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Silica's Clothing Donation: Helping children and building customer relationships are both priorities for Avnet's community relations programs. In Germany, Silica employees found a way to do both.
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Ottawa Community Relations Efforts Give Local Families Hope: What started as one Avnet Ottawa employee's effort to show her children how fortunate they are has grown into a branch-wide focus including sponsorships, fundraising, collections and even teaming with a supplier.
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Boston Team Helps Tots During Holidays: Many Boston area children had a brighter Christmas, thanks to 140 local companies that helped Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) support the Marine Corp's Toys for Tots program.
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Avnet Australia Supports Barnado's: Because Barnardo's is a charity that is dear to Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) Australia employees' hearts, TS Australia decided to help raise greatly needed funds.
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San Antonio Gets Hands Dirty to Help Children's Shelter: After throwing monthly birthday parties, participating in book drives and donating "Jeans Day" proceeds to help local children, Avnet Technology Solutions' (TS) San Antonio office decided it was time to get its hands dirty.
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Milpitas Care Packages: When you're a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq, it's the little things you miss most. Fortunately for one Marine helicopter unit, Avnet employees sent many of those items in weekly care packages.
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Avnet Softball Classic (Tempe, Ariz., USA). The Avnet B2B (business to business) Classic, a single-elimination tournament at the Tempe Sports Complex in Tempe, is open on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Avnet Japan and Kids . For the second summer in a row, Avnet Japan teamed up with Freescale Semiconductor to provide children in Tokyo and Osaka with an opportunity to experience a hands-on electronics construction and programming project.
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London to Brighton Ride . Six Avnet employees in the United Kingdom recently joined 27,000 other cyclists to ride 55 miles from London to Brighton to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
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Woodland Hills . Because it is located near Los Angeles - the second-largest city in the United States - Avnet's Woodland Hills, Calif. team felt like a small fish in the community relations pond.
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UK Red Nose Day . Every two years, everyone in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is encouraged to cast their inhibitions aside, put on a red nose and do something a bit silly to increase awareness of injustice and poverty and raise money to fight them.
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StarShine Academy . Avnet builds working relationships one step at a time and so does its Community Relations team. Avnet's recent donation of six computers to a Phoenix-based charter school is a great example of how the company aligns its programs to more strategically benefit the community.
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International Help . Avnet employees in Italy rallied behind a reseller to improve the health and lives of children around the world by donating money and organizing a jazz concert -- ultimately raising $10,000.
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Unmask the Mysteries Gala (Silicon Valley, Calif., USA). In addition to sponsoring Xilinx's annual fundraiser for the AIDS Coalition of Silicon Valley, Avnet created a mask for the Xilinx collection.
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Northern Illinois Food Bank (Chicago, Ill., USA). Avnet's Chicago office was recently named Volunteer Corporation of the Year for spending more than 800 hours sorting and packaging donated food items.
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The Children's Home (Tampa Bay, Fla., USA). Turning a customer appreciation barbecue into a charitable event resulted in Avnet's raising more than $10,000 for children who have suffered abuse, neglect or abandonment.
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Toys for Tots (Peabody, Mass., USA). By bringing customers and suppliers together, Avnet raised $6,000 and collected $4,000 worth of toys.
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Ronald McDonald House (St. Louis, Mo., USA). For more than three years, Avnet employees have prepared and served dinner to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals.
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Foundation Service Medical (The Netherlands). When Avnet saw the need Foundation Service Medical had for logistics equipment, it donated a laser scanner and bar code inventory label system to help the provider of emergency medical services track inventory and medical equipment.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters (Mt. Laurel, N.J., USA). Since 2001, Avnet's annual Customer Appreciation Day in Mt. Laurel, N.J., has brought employees, customers and suppliers together to raise $54,000 to help mentor children with parents in prison, expand school-based mentoring and begin a Kids Club for children waiting to be matched with a Big Brother or Big Sister.

 

 


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