The following blog entry is done by Chris Calabro, an Avnet employee who is doing some community outreach work through his college courses.  He’s also gotten a few people at Avnet involved in this so that makes it an in-kind contribution for us.  I asked him to guest blog because this is a perfect example [...]

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Ian Basey, Vice President, Marketing, Avnet
Everyday, people go out of their way to help others. Sometimes it is as simple as letting the guy in the wrong lane get into your lane, other times it is dedicating time to a favorite cause, making a donation when you are buying groceries, or buying a poppy.
In the [...]

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Avnet Employees in Canada typically rally their CR efforts around children’s organizations.  They’ve been doing some really cool things in their community, and have been going full steam ahead at it, for quite a while.
Calgary employees support the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation (ACHF), by working through the Southern Alberta Electronics Charity Organization (SAECO), and have [...]

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It’s 4:00 on a Friday “and the regular crowd filters” out … my apologies to Billy Joel.
It’s Halloween, which is my favorite holiday. Actually, Samhain is my favorite holiday but we Americans have to commercialize everything!  Oh well.
Plus, I don’t have a firm plan yet, on this, my favorite holiday, on how I’m going to [...]

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This isn’t exactly community relations but it’s a great story anyway.  This is a really cool event we are dong for employees but we’ve opened it up to the public.  In fact, if any of you can figure out a community outreach angle to this, let us know!  We’d love to figure out a way [...]

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