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28
Portland, Oregon
Helping satisfy the basic needs of
the homeless as they transition
to housing.
Why spend time helping others? Just ask any of the several
thousand team members at Wells Fargo who volunteer in their
communities.They’ll say that every smile, hug and “thank you”
they receive makes it more than worthwhile. Every day, hundreds
of team members across the country give their time,talent and
resources to improve the quality of life in their communities.
In 2005,Wells Fargo created a company-wide process
to better manage and measure the company’s volunteer efforts.
VolunteerWellsFargo! is an internet-based tool that helps connect
team members with volunteer activities that match their interests
and time.They use it to find projects and recruit colleagues for
beach clean ups,Habitat for Humanity house builds, fun runs, and
tutoring projects, and to record their volunteer hours or board
membership activities.
Team members in Portland,Oregon use VolunteerWellsFargo!
to organize groups of volunteers to prepare and serve hot meals to
90 homeless individuals at Transition Projects Inc.,a non-profit that
provides shelter and helps the homeless get back on their feet.
Team members (below, from left) Kellie Pearse, Mary Hills,
Denise Sandefur, Robin Thomas,Fe Dolor, Charlie Jones,
Michelle Trofitter and Karen Schmidt are among over 30 team
members who take turns volunteering every month to plan,
provide, prepare and serve meals at the shelter.
So far, over 20 percent of our team members have logged
onto the VolunteerWellsFargo! website and over nine percent
have recorded their hours.“This new tool will give us a better
understanding of how we make our communities even better
places to live and work,”said Tim Schreck, community support
manager.“It will also show us for the first time the incredible
quantity and quality of all our volunteer efforts, which we believe
are just as important if not more important than the $95 million
our company contributed to non-profits this year.We can now
track our progress toward becoming one of the top contributors
in team member volunteerism in all of corporate America.”
VolunteerWellsFargo!