Volunteerism

Trucking duo Donna and Calvin Quinn volunteer as “Trucker Buddies” for a pen-pal program that pairs drivers with kids from second to eighth grade. Trucker Buddy International has helped educate and mentor more than one million schoolchildren. Each week, drivers give travel updates to their adopted class, with students writing back once a month. Donna and Calvin take a unique approach, writing their entries from the perspective of their golden retriever, Buffett.

 

Local FedEx operations delivered the first flower of spring – and a message of hope – around the country during the American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days. Throughout the month of March, FedEx team members and local volunteers helped pack, sort and deliver millions of daffodils to help in the fight against cancer. Daffodils were delivered to local businesses, homes, offices, hospitals, schools and faith-based organizations. In the New England region alone, Daffodil Days helped raise nearly $3 million in 2008, and FedEx team members delivered more than 400,000 daffodils to the greater Boston community.

 

California may have a laid-back reputation, but FedEx employees in Los Angeles are very active in the local communities. One of the largest programs supported by FedEx employees in the Los Angeles area is the California Highway Patrol’s annual “CHiPs for Kids” toy drive, which collects thousands of toys for needy children in the local community, all delivered with support from FedEx and other area sponsors. 

 

After 76 years at sea, the complete sterling silver service created for the USS Indiana in 1896 was finally delivered to Indiana’s First Lady Cheri Daniels and the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis. Tiffany & Co. designed and created the 39-piece set for $8,000. Today, the set is valued at $1.5 million. Since 1973, all but five pieces of the collection were displayed aboard the USS Nimitz. After receiving a request from Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, United States Navy officials worked to transfer the collection to the USS Indianapolis Museum. While the USS Nimitz was docked in San Diego, FedEx team members – at their own expense – packed, personally escorted and shipped the 200-pound silver service to Indianapolis. There, it was reunited with the remaining five pieces that had been on display at the governor’s residence since 1920.