UPS Volunteers
Volunteerism is a global phenomenon at UPS as employees around the world have embraced this important piece of the organization’s culture. Every year UPSers from the most senior levels of management to the part-time ranks lend their skills in a variety of ways. From serving as directors for high performing non-profits to lending their skills as loaned executives to local United Ways, UPSers embrace opportunities to participate in knowledge sharing, skills-based volunteerism.
Global Volunteer Month
The UPS Global Volunteer Month is an extension of UPS’s long-standing commitment to volunteerism and is the year’s culminating event for employee volunteers. For the past six years, thousands of UPS employees in more than 50 countries have helped paint schools, assist food banks, renovate shelters and complete many other tasks in their communities.
What started initially as a week long program outside the U.S. in 2003 grew into a month long commitment to build, beautify and better our communities. In October, UPSers in neighborhoods and villages across the globe, will dedicate the entire month to community service.
This celebration of giving back to communities is planned and managed by UPSers in each participating country and operating unit. UPS employees in each participating location select partners and volunteer activities to best serve the area’s specific needs. UPS will partner with close to 200 nonprofit organizations and schools in communities around the world during Global Volunteer Month.
UPS Delivers the Cure
UPSers give thousands of volunteer hours to support the race logistics at Susan G. Komen's Race for the Cure events . Through these race events, Komen is dedicated to serving people during every stage of breast cancer, from awareness to finding a cure. UPS volunteers help to distribute t-shirts, organize race logistics, and serve water and snacks to race participants.
In addition to volunteering, UPS has become the official shipping sponsor for the Passionately Pink for the Cure awareness and fundraiser program that takes place during October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. UPS donated $50,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation program and is shipping the Passionately Pink participation kits to businesses participating in the campaign.
“The UPS-Komen partnership represents a powerful addition to the fight against breast cancer,” said Christine Owens, UPS senior vice president of communications and brand management, “The women and men of UPS are committed to helping individuals and groups deliver the cure for breast cancer through this incredibly worthwhile program.”
Northern China Volunteers visited Xibaipo Hope School
Volunteers gave 220 hours to the Xibaipo Hope School in Pingshan County. The Director-General of Pingshan Education Bureau also participated in the activity. During the visit, the volunteers visited the computer lab (donated and built by UPS in 2003) and shared life and study experiences with the students. School supplies and gifts were presented to the students.
Connecting India to the World
UPS volunteers from around the world, international government officials from Germany, United Kingdom and Estonia, and villagers of Navlakhumbre partnered to construct two state-of-the-art computer labs that will connect a small village in Maharashtra to the world. As part of the UPS Building Program, the five-day project resulted in 50 computers, all linked via satellite to provide Internet access to local residents.
