(Community Matters) 415 volunteers at Zilker Park working on every sort of project at the Park, Botanical Gardens, Nature Preserve, Nature & Science Center and around the pool. Approximately 2,500 volunteer hours worth nearly $50,000 from 25 of Austin’s companies led by entrepreneurs.
gathering at breakfast – thanks Starbucks & Taco Cabana
Austin Ventures team including Mike Dodd, David Lack & Kim Carter
PricewaterhouseCoopers
A million thanks to PwC for being one of the day’s sponsors (along with DLA Piper, Thinkwell and Square One). Together with members of Austin Ventures, Collider Media, Convio, Sante Ventures, and Nvidia, they removed invasive species, thinned out some trees along the Nature Preserve trail and lined the trail with rocks.
PwC
PwC’s managing partner, Jim French & Mike Dodd
the Phurnace Software team
led by my Texas A&M student leader colleague, Larry Warnock
he was commander of the corp
Whitney Mayfield w/ Clif Bar & Co @ Austin Biodiversity Greenhouse
Emily Mayfield w/ Manticore Tech @ Austin Biodiversity
volunteers from Handmade Expressions
a Dell team @ McBeth Recreation Center
vcfo’s Corey Blahuta
back breaking hard workers – always think of Corey, Jeff Browning and John Dirvin
Comerica’s team
Paul Gerling and associates at ComericaI had a good pic of their Pres. Tim Klitch, where is it?
lunch for 415, thanks to Schlotzsky’s and Ben & Jerry’s and Sweet Leaf Tea
Mayor Lee Leffingwell
the Handmade Expressions team
I enjoyed meeting these guys who have established a social motivated, for profit, fair trade business to provide sustainable wages for India-based artisans – Handmade Expressions
Bryant Howell & Dan from BazaarVoice
BazaarVoice team @ Nature & Science Center
Loved seeing my former undergrad student Harrison now at Bazaar
Boundless team @ Nature & Science
Adlucent @ Nature & Science
Marc Cannon w/ Boundless
Denise Kotria (Sitestuff), Tyler Metzger (Creditcards.com) & Alythia Raya (sitestuff)
Kat Diederich (AV) & Jenny Murphy (Sante)
Creditcards.com @ Nature & Scienceteam led by Faith Johnson
Parks & Rec Central Parks Director, Joanna Mesecke
Parks & Rec was outstanding. Twenty-three-ish staff members and key volunteers leading our member company volunteers. They prepped and cared & feed all of us really well – many thanks!
Peter Frey & Jenna Poldrogar closing down
Shobie Partos is our program manager extraordinaire who organizes a thousand moving pieces flawlessly – of course well led & assisted by Amanda Chiampi & Peter Frey. EF couldn’t be luckier to have these three as its full time staff.
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