Sample Activities
Besides participating in CAREDAYS, there are countless ways to celebrate Companies That Care Day. In recent years, organizations have celebrated by:

• Sending notes from senior management to employees expressing their appreciation for employee efforts
• Providing on-site massages for all staff
• Holding employee-wide meetings
• Publicizing the organization's commitment to employees and the community via banners and shirts
• Providing employees an opportunity to recognize each other by sending "caregrams"
• Providing an appreciation lunch for all employees
• Holding a drawing and giving "care packages" to the winners
• Making a donation to groups supporting the medically uninsured

Some other possibilities include:

• Communicate the Companies That Care Statement of Commitment:
  We believe that our employees and the community are important to our success. Therefore, we are committed to 1) providing a workplace in which employees can thrive and 2) working to sustain and strengthen our community.
• Conduct focus groups to determine what employees perceive they are recognized for and what they want to be recognized for.
• Hang banners and posters throughout the building to commemorate the Day.
• Hold an ice cream social to recognize vendors that care.
• Have managers spend the day in training courses to hone their people skills.
• Establish an anonymous hotline for employees to report ethics violations.
• Hold a volunteer fair to highlight all the volunteer opportunities within the community.

Resources to Celebrate Companies That Care Day
Center for Companies That Care can provide a range of ideas and materials you can customize to implement your own Companies That Care Day theme at your company. Please contact Center for Companies That Care at info@companies-that-care.org or 312-661-1010 if you are interested in any of the following:

• Fundraising ideas
• Sample CEO talking points about why it's important to be a company that cares and Companies That Care Day
• Sample employee e-mail announcements
• Sample press release for media about your organization's participation in the Day

Through its Giving Store, Companies That Care also offers a variety of standard promotional items that you may customize with your logo and distribute to employees in honor of Companies That Care Day, including:

• Caps
• Frisbees
• Mugs
• Lunch Saks