Different Paths Joining & Working Together
Luke Kavenagh, "I <3 Warm Heart!"
On November 19th, Warm Heart received a helping hand from a friend of Tara DeWorsop, as part of what his company deems ‘Volunteer Days’. Luke Kavenagh, who works for Ziff Brothers Investments, or ZBI, in New York, spent the day helping out with the day to day tasks that normally keep Tara busy. ZBI, in a tireless mission to extend a hand to both the local and global community, offers all of its employees a day off work to help out any charity or non-profit of their choosing. This is in addition to them offering a monetary gift to any charity for each one of their employees, which last month donated $1,000 to Warm Heart Worldwide.
Luke met Tara’s family soon after he moved from Australia to New York City. Being friends of his family, they have provided much hospitality to him while he has been far from home, and so when a day off work was offered, to spend doing something to give a tiny bit back to both Tara and Warm Heart, he jumped at the chance. He spent the day carrying out administrative tasks and accompanying Tara to stores to make sales.
It is an important part of this program to raise awareness in people that work in larger corporations, that they often offer similar such programs, and more often than not, offer to match any employee contributions to non-profit organisations. These programs are often forgotten about, but when utilised, are a wonderful chance to help out the community in a more effective way than could often be done individually.