Staggering Statistics We’re a decade out from the Great Recession and still one in eight Americans are crippled with food insecurity. In North Texas, that number increases to one in six people – and even more staggering, one in five children. In Dallas alone, over 442,000 people (17.6% of Dallas’ population) are food insecure. And […]
Posts Tagged ‘Perficient Gives’
Perficient Minneapolis Colleagues Support Annual Toys for Tots Charity Drive
Our Minneapolis colleagues dedicated their annual charity drive to Toys for Tots, a national nonprofit that distributes toys to low-income families. Team members brought new, unwrapped toys between Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas. Then, the week before Christmas, the toys were delivered to KARE 11, a local news station and convenient drop-off location near […]
Perficient Atlanta Team Helps Out at the Atlanta Community Food Bank
This past month Perficient Atlanta members volunteered a Saturday morning to help the community at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. The ACFB’s mission is to help provide for the food-insecure in the Greater Atlanta area. When parents have to make the difficult decision between feeding themselves and their children or paying bills, the food bank […]
Perficient St. Louis Team Adopts a Highway
Our team in St. Louis recently joined the Missouri Adopt-A-Highway volunteer program. Perficient adopted a section of the highway near the offices for litter cleanup. Team members recently gathered together at the site for a quick clean up after work. Perficient employees will continue the clean-up efforts with more employees volunteering to help at future […]
Perficient Atlanta Team Sends a Piece of Home to Deployed Troops
Helping others is a great way to build camaraderie with your colleagues. Pulling together for a good cause brings the office closer. Our Perficient Atlanta office recently did just that for the Adopt-a-Soldier program. This isn’t the first time the office has participated in this program, and it definitely will not be the last time. […]
How a Habitat for Humanity Build Brought My Team Closer Together
Volunteering together is a great way to build relationships with your colleagues. You get to know things about co-workers that would never have come up in a typical workday discussion. Our Perficient Atlanta team had the opportunity to do just that during a recent volunteer initiative with our local Habitat for Humanity. For years I’ve […]
How 3 Perficient Colleagues Use Their Tech Skills to Give Back
In the digital age, charity organizations have a strong need for technology support. Here’s how three of our Perficient Minneapolis colleagues are using their technical and business skills for the greater good of their community: Tools Designed for Compatible Technology International Aid Developing Nations Art Quinn, General Manager Art has been a longtime volunteer with Compatible […]
Perficient Irvine Team Volunteers to Help Veterans
Veterans Day is an opportunity for me to reflect and share my gratitude for the sacrifices that our service members have provided in defending our freedoms. I work out of our Irvine office in sunny Southern California, where our philanthropy committee is always looking to give back to the local community. In the past, we’ve […]
Perficient Irvine Team Walks to Find a Cure for Breast Cancer
According to U.S. government statistics, one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lives. From neighbors to colleagues to friends, breast cancer can affect someone we know and results in nearly 40,000 deaths per year, second behind lung cancer. Numerous support organizations including Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure have stepped up […]
Perficient Atlanta Team Helps Pack 8,000 Meals at Local Food Bank
The Atlanta Community Food Bank helps serve thousands by providing food to those in need throughout metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Food is donated and collected at a massive facility near central Atlanta and then sorted and packed into boxes to be distributed by various partner agencies to low-income Georgia citizens. The food is sorted […]
Perficient Charlotte Team Donates 100 Pairs of Shoes to Soles4Souls
I first heard about Soles4Souls through a social media post from a friend who works at Brighton, a retail store that has a shoe collection bin. Soles4Souls advances its anti-poverty mission by collecting new and used shoes and distributing them to people in need to create jobs in poor and disadvantaged communities. The organization has distributed […]
Giving Back with Microsoft at The Fishing School
Our Microsoft team looks forward to the annual Microsoft Inspire conference (formerly known as the Worldwide Partner Conference) for many reasons. Keynotes and networking are big draws, but we especially enjoy the opportunity to give back through the U.S. One Commercial Partner (OCP) community project. In 2016, we sponsored and participated in Microsoft’s community outreach event […]