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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Sadly, Avnet does not give us a day off on Columbus Day, so I will not be on holiday Monday, October 12.  Happily, I will be doing something really exciting.  The Arizona Foundation for Women (AFW) is a nonprofit that is near and dear to my heart.  I served on their board of directors for [...]

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Here is some really exciting news about our biggest signature event, the Avnet Tech Games (ATG).  ATG is going to host our first Virtual Competition and it’s open to students nationwide.  Now, students across America are elibigle to win thousands of dollars in scholarship money
See our press release for more info and be sure to [...]

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