amldaley
01-16-2009, 09:00 AM
If you volunteer, or would like a reason to get started, check out the info on trading 5 volunteer hours for free Starbucks coffee.
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Free Cup of Starbucks Coffee if you Pledge 5 Hours of Volunteer Time
What if you gave 5 hours to help your community?
Event Info Host: Starbucks Coffee Company
Type: Causes - Rally
Network: Global
Time and Place Start Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 7:00am
End Time: Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Participating Starbucks locations in the US
Description
What if you gave 5 hours to help your community?
What if we all did?
Your small commitment could add up to something BIG.
From January 21, 2009 through January 25, 2009, when you pledge 5 hours of volunteer time, Starbucks will salute you with a free Tall brewed cup of coffee in participating U.S. Starbucks stores. Not valid at airports or Barnes & Noble locations.
YOU IN?
Visit http://pledge5.starbucks.com to learn more.
Not sure what to do with your 5 hours? You could:
- support a local food bank
- provide skills to a nonprofit
- clean up your community
- walk or run for a cause
- mentor a child or teen
- help a local family in need
Starbucks Corp. said it will give away a free tall brewed coffee Jan. 21-25 to any customer who pledges to donate five hours or more of volunteer community service.
The Seattle coffee giant (NASDAQ: SBUX) is teaming with the nonprofit HandsOn Network of Atlanta, which has 270 local U.S. centers that work20with more than 31,000 nonprofit organizations.
“Five hours is just 25 minutes a month for a year, two afternoons at a food bank creating care packages, a day reading to children at a hospital or in a park planting trees,” said Vivek Varma, senior vice president of global affairs of Starbucks, in a statement.
To qualify for the free coffee, customers must fill out a pledge card to donate five hours of time
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Free Cup of Starbucks Coffee if you Pledge 5 Hours of Volunteer Time
What if you gave 5 hours to help your community?
Event Info Host: Starbucks Coffee Company
Type: Causes - Rally
Network: Global
Time and Place Start Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 7:00am
End Time: Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Participating Starbucks locations in the US
Description
What if you gave 5 hours to help your community?
What if we all did?
Your small commitment could add up to something BIG.
From January 21, 2009 through January 25, 2009, when you pledge 5 hours of volunteer time, Starbucks will salute you with a free Tall brewed cup of coffee in participating U.S. Starbucks stores. Not valid at airports or Barnes & Noble locations.
YOU IN?
Visit http://pledge5.starbucks.com to learn more.
Not sure what to do with your 5 hours? You could:
- support a local food bank
- provide skills to a nonprofit
- clean up your community
- walk or run for a cause
- mentor a child or teen
- help a local family in need
Starbucks Corp. said it will give away a free tall brewed coffee Jan. 21-25 to any customer who pledges to donate five hours or more of volunteer community service.
The Seattle coffee giant (NASDAQ: SBUX) is teaming with the nonprofit HandsOn Network of Atlanta, which has 270 local U.S. centers that work20with more than 31,000 nonprofit organizations.
“Five hours is just 25 minutes a month for a year, two afternoons at a food bank creating care packages, a day reading to children at a hospital or in a park planting trees,” said Vivek Varma, senior vice president of global affairs of Starbucks, in a statement.
To qualify for the free coffee, customers must fill out a pledge card to donate five hours of time