Entrepreneurs Foundation’s Spring Service Day

(Community Matters) Entrepreneurs Foundation’s Spring Service Day – over 350 employees from over 25 companies transformed Andrew Elementary’s campus in about 6.5 hours. Students, parents, teachers, AISD officials & our participants loved it.

Member & sponsor companies participating included 360 Training, Adlucent, ATI/Clean Energy Incubator, Austin Ventures, Bazarvoice, Boundless Networks, Comerica, Convio, Creditcards.com, Dell, Famecast, Homeaway, Lomardi, nVidia, Manacore Tech, Moximity, Quickarrow, PwC, Thinkwell, Silicon Valley Bank, Spinal Restoration, vcfo, Troux Technologies, Vinson & Elkins and Libre Digital. Sponsoring the day: the Entrepreneurs Foundation, Message One and Silicon Valley Bank thank you advisory board member, Doug Mangum.

Dr. Pat Forgoine (AISD Superintendent), Mark Williams (AISD board trustee, chair) and Cheryl Bradley (AISD trustee) all joined us at different times through the day. Principal Laurie Barber with us throughout the day.

Youth Interactive, the Sustainable Food Center and Communities in Schools joined as our partners.

Austin Ventures had the conn on the marquee and immediate garden

two concrete mixers, 2 tractors, a gator, tons of stone, four trucks of gravel, 2 trucks of plants, paints, murals and 700 hands

moms in CIS Aspire classes learning English pitched in

Convio timed their 3 days of community service to ours – thanks!

building a field track

3 from Convio

Comerica’s Tim Klitch

AISD had trenched the field, we laid & set the limestone in concrete, then spread & packed the crushed granite – probably 300 yards of track

AV’s Kim Hughes

mostly AV

Bazarvoice & Youth Interactive ran the field day activities

Dr. Pat Forgoine, Eugene & Principal Laurie Barber

@ lunch

during lunch the fifth graders performed

so did the bilingual preschoolers

Caroline Moreau with Communities in Schools
wife of Community Foundation’s Walter Moreau

Spinal Restoration’s Jeff & John

Vinson & Elkins team

V&E took on the internal courtyard

and they hit a home run

Boundless disassembled some tile displays

here Boundless and AISD School Board chair Mark Williams

and they constructed mosaics from Andrews Elementary children’s drawings

Creditcards.com painted the mural (as well as work on front gardens)

preschoolers – the kids were precious. all day – “hi”, “hello” “hola”

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Adlucent

and of course a wee happy hour despues, at Tres Amigos