Rasmussen College to Devote More Than 80 Hours to National Community Service Day
June 8, 2009
Contact:
Kristy Croom
Sr. Communications Manager
Phone: (727) 942-0069
Cell: (727) 692-2670
Kristy.Croom@Rasmussen.edu
Rasmussen College employees around the country are banding together on Friday, July 17 for the first annual Rasmussen National Community Service Day.
Employees from all twenty-one locations of Rasmussen will be participating in their own community service events, and will be "giving back" 84 hours in total to their communities.
Rasmussen will be working with the following charities for 4 hours each on the seventeenth:
Florida
Ocala—River Cleanup / City of Ocala Tuscawilla Park Relocation
Orlando—Women's Residential & Counseling Center
Tampa Bay (Pasco County)—Habitat for Humanity
Aurora and Romeoville/Joliet—Hesed House
Illinois
Chicago—Ray Graham Association
Rockford—Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful
Brooklyn Park—Friends of Mississippi Project
Minnesota
Eagan—Feed Our Starving Children / Dorothy Day Center
Eden Prairie—Emergency Food Shelf and the National Epilepsy Foundation
Lake Elmo/Woobury and Twin Cities—Goodwill Easter Seals
Mankato—Devine/ Relay For Life
St. Cloud—Quiet Oakes Hospice House/MESSAGE program/Park District
North Dakota
Fargo/Moorhead—Ronald McDonald House
Green Bay—Boys and Girls Club
Wisconsin
Green Bay—Boys and Girls Club
The online staff of Rasmussen College will also be volunteering for the Boys and Girls Club, the National Epilepsy Foundation, and the Salvation Army.
"The Rasmussen National Community Service Day is a way for Rasmussen College to give back to our communities," President of Rasmussen College Kristi Waite said. "One of our strongest commitments is to our communities, which includes our students and their employers, our employees, and also the community at large. We are dedicated to providing exceptional service to those communities, and this service day is one way that we can."
Rasmussen College, Inc. is a premier provider of educational experiences delivering Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degree programs through its network of ground-based and online virtual campuses. The College has campuses across the Midwest and Southeast and offers online education to students across the globe.
Rasmussen serves more than 12,000 students in fifty states and five countries through its partnerships with leading universities. The College has more than 950 employees.
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