Community
Many Ways of Giving
Give it time. Match it up. Pitch it in. Check it out. The QBP Community Service Program helps employees give back to their communities in a variety of ways. Our employees volunteer their time, make cash donations (matched by QBP), and donate goods through monthly drives. In 2008 our do-gooders gave over 1000 hours of their time to volunteer organizations; each hour is matched by QBP through a financial donation.
Bikes for Families
QBP employees adopted five local families in need of bicycles this holiday season. Through a series of bake sales, sample sales and an art sale we raised enough money for 14 new bicycles, locks, bells and helmets for each family. These bikes give the families a healthy recreational activity as well as providing them with a transportation solution.
Reaching at-risk youth with Full Cycle
In 2008, QBP began funding Full Cycle, a Minneapolis-based outreach program that offers free bikes to homeless and at-risk youth, as a way to engage them with vitally needed social services. The funding allowed Full Cycle to hire a fulltime bike mechanic, create a series of bicycle mechanic courses, and open a small retail business that repairs and sells used bikes.
Some of the Community Service committee’s current and past initiatives include:
- Loaves & Fishes charity kitchen
- Twin Cities Toys for Tots
- Trips for Kids
- Red Cross Youth Bikes
- World Bicycle Relief
- Pet supply drives for Animal Humane Society and other groups
- VEAP food drive
- Bike parts for U.S. Troops in Middle East
- Sabantini Center clothing drive
- Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter
- Hurricane Katrina clothing drive
- Sri Lanka Tsunami fund drive
- Trail clean up in Hyland Park
ACE Community Related Websites:
www.loavesandfishesmn.org
Loaves and Fishes
www.toysfortots.org
Toys-for-Tots
www.tripsforkidstwincities.com
Trips for Kids Twin Cities
www.animalhumanesociety.org
Animal Humane Society
www.veapvolunteers.org
VEAP
www.tubmanfamilyalliance.org
Tubman Family Alliance
www.unicef.org
Unicef
www.abettercommunity.com
A Better Community
www.volunteersaroundtheworld.org
Volunteers Around the World
www.resource-mn.org
Resource, Inc.
www.ppl-inc.org
Project for Pride in Living
www.aeonhomes.org
Aeon Homes (formerly Central Community Housing Trust)
www.tchabitat.org
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity
QBP contact:
Pam Hile
phile@qbp.com
952.941.9391 ext. #1200
