CannonDesign celebrates Community Service Day 2022

September 14, 2022

It’s good for the soul, the mind and our collective communities to take a pause from our daily workload and volunteer. For our global CannonDesign team, one of those moments took place on Friday, August 26, when teammates across our firm partnered with local non-profits as part of our Annual Community Service Day. Here’s a recap of how those across our firm gave back.

Boston

Our Boston office helped beautify the Hull Lifesaving Museum, an organization that commemorates their maritime heritage and provides life-changing youth development experiences.

The museum celebrates the local maritime heritage while also providing life-changing and sometimes life-saving youth development experiences.

CannonDesign celebrates Community Service Day 2022 — The museum celebrates the local maritime heritage while also providing life-changing and sometimes life-saving youth development experiences.

20220826 094802 — The museum celebrates the local maritime heritage while also providing life-changing and sometimes life-saving youth development experiences.

Our team helped with landscaping, clean up and refinishing the building's deck.

20220826 124155 — Our team helped with landscaping, clean up and refinishing the building's deck.

The Boston office beautifying the Hull Lifesaving Museum.

Pittsburgh

In Pittsburgh, our teammates partnered with Allegheny Parks to clean trails at Hartwood Acres. They brought their shovels, spades and boots to help keep the city’s surrounding parks in great shape for the fall ahead.

Hartwood Acres is a 629-acre county park in Allegheny County. Its considered the crown jewel of the county's 12,000-acre network of nine distinct parks.

Group — Hartwood Acres is a 629-acre county park in Allegheny County. Its considered the crown jewel of the county's 12,000-acre network of nine distinct parks.

New York City

Our New York City office volunteered with two organizations: Northwell Health’s Growing Loving Community Garden and The New Jewish Home. With Northwell Health, we helped get their community garden ready for the fall by preparing seeds. At The New Jewish Home, our teammates organized a library, and after doing some tech checks, spent time with residents building shadow box collages. Participants said it was wonderful to have cross-generational and cross-cultural conversations

The New Jewish Home provides health and rehabilitation care that meets the evolving needs of people as they age.

Jewish Home2 — The New Jewish Home provides health and rehabilitation care that meets the evolving needs of people as they age.

Jewish Home3 — The New Jewish Home provides health and rehabilitation care that meets the evolving needs of people as they age.

The vision for the Growing Loving Community Garden is to build a resilient community where neighbors grow, share and eat their own food.

Growing Love Garden1 — The vision for the Growing Loving Community Garden is to build a resilient community where neighbors grow, share and eat their own food.

Growing Love Garden2 — The vision for the Growing Loving Community Garden is to build a resilient community where neighbors grow, share and eat their own food.

Buffalo

As one of our largest offices, our Buffalo teammates split up in groups of three and volunteered with several local organizations. One of the organizations is the Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church. This church is a pillar within the Buffalo East Side community. The team packaged meals, sorted clothing donations and helped beautify the community garden.

Lincoln Memorial Church serves its community through its meal service, food pantry, clothing closet and expansive community garden.

Buffalo Service Day — Lincoln Memorial Church serves its community through its meal service, food pantry, clothing closet and expansive community garden.

Two other groups helped rehab the River Rock Garden located in the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy and cleaned up the parks and water shorelines in the outer harbor at Wilkeson Pointe with the Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper.

Originally designed as a minnow pool, the River Rock Garden was reinterpreted in 2014, and today is Western New York's largest rain garden.

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper protects and restores Western New York's water and surrounding ecosystems for the benefit of current and future generations.

Toronto

Our Toronto team volunteered at Second Harvest Toronto, an organization that finds surplus, edible food that businesses can’t use and hands it out to those in need. The group helped organize food and set up the organization’s staff to feed even more people in the near term.

Second Harvest works across the supply chain to rescue surplus food before it ends up in landfill.

Microsoftteams Image 4 — Second Harvest works across the supply chain to rescue surplus food before it ends up in landfill.

Second Harvest is Canada's largest food rescue charitable organization.

Microsoftteams Image 3 — Second Harvest is Canada's largest food rescue charitable organization.

Cd1 — Second Harvest is Canada's largest food rescue charitable organization.

Baltimore

In Baltimore, our office split their team across two local nonprofits. One volunteered with the Baltimore Urban Baseball Association, which teaches urban youth about baseball by teaching, mentoring, coaching and practice. The other group went to Belair-Edison Elementary School where they helped teachers prepare for the new school year.

The Baltimore Urban Baseball Association teaches baseball fundamentals to prepare urban kids to better compete with county and private school kids.

20220826 142259654 Ios — The Baltimore Urban Baseball Association teaches baseball fundamentals to prepare urban kids to better compete with county and private school kids.

Washington, D.C.

Our Washington, D.C office also had the opportunity to give back to two groups: The Clothesline for Arlington Kids and Bridges to Independence. The team has volunteered with The Clothesline of Arlington Kids before, and this time they helped them switch the store from summer to winter wardrobes. At Bridges to Independence, the team was able to collect and donate canned foods for the organization.

Bridges to Independence's vision is to break intergenerational cycles of poverty.

Csd 2022 Bridges Giant Run 1 — Bridges to Independence's vision is to break intergenerational cycles of poverty.

The Clothesline collects quality clothing from the community and distributes it free of charge to low-income, school-aged children.

Dallas and Houston

Our Houston office volunteered at Bayou City Blessings, an organization that provides food on the weekends and during school breaks for Houston children. The team assembled 1,000 bags with food and created over 2,000 cards for the students to read when they opened their bag. Our Dallas office donated their time and skills to help out the North Texas Food Bank.

The North Texas Food Bank distributes foods through a network of nearly 1,000 feeding programs and 262 partner agencies in 13 North Texas counties.

20220826 093335 — The North Texas Food Bank distributes foods through a network of nearly 1,000 feeding programs and 262 partner agencies in 13 North Texas counties.

20220826 094919 — The North Texas Food Bank distributes foods through a network of nearly 1,000 feeding programs and 262 partner agencies in 13 North Texas counties.

20220826 094924 — The North Texas Food Bank distributes foods through a network of nearly 1,000 feeding programs and 262 partner agencies in 13 North Texas counties.

The vision of Bayou City Blessings is to work collaboratively with partner schools to remove childhood hunger as a non-academic barrier to learning so that all children have the opportunity to experience academic success.

C039c1f6 485d 4fa5 860c 6a6039dc9e9d — The vision of Bayou City Blessings is to work collaboratively with partner schools to remove childhood hunger as a non-academic barrier to learning so that all children have the opportunity to experience academic success.

Denver

Our Denver team partnered with Denver Parks and Recreation to help clean up the South Platte trail in Arkins Promenade.

Arkins Promenade is a 400-foot-long elevated walkway along the South Platte River in RiNo.

San Diego and Irvine

In California—our San Diego and Irvine offices joined forces to help two great local organizations: the San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation and the Irvine Ranch Conservancy, specifically the Boomer Canyon Nature Garden.

Mission Trails is an 8,000-acre wilderness wonderland promoting educational and recreational opportunities.

San Diego Office — Mission Trails is an 8,000-acre wilderness wonderland promoting educational and recreational opportunities.

Boomer Canyon's nature garden serves as an educational resource during guided walks led by Irvine Ranch Conservancy naturalists.

Irvine Office — Boomer Canyon's nature garden serves as an educational resource during guided walks led by Irvine Ranch Conservancy naturalists.

Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, over 30 of our team members volunteered at the Los Angeles Food Bank and sorted over 10,000 pounds of fresh fruit for distribution. Another group of volunteers spent time with the Midnight Mission sorting donated clothing, shoes and personal goods, and preparing meals for the unhoused community.

St. Louis

In St. Louis, more than 60 employees volunteered across six different sites. Those organizations were Bethel Hills, Crisis Nursery, Forest Park Forever, Gateway Greening, MissionSTL and Stray Rescue.

Our teams partnered with nonprofits serving multiple causes, from animal rescue to public recreation, housing and social support for people with disabilities. — St Louis office volunteering at Bethel Hills.

20220826 Dsc 9424 — Our teams partnered with nonprofits serving multiple causes, from animal rescue to public recreation, housing and social support for people with disabilities.

Our St. Louis team donated a total of 252 hours of work.

St Louis office volunteerings at Mission STL.

Photo Aug 26 10 42 29 Am — Our St. Louis team donated a total of 252 hours of work.

Ann Arbor

Our Blue Cottage of CannonDesign team in Ann Arbor, Michigan, worked with Food Gatherers to prepare non-perishable food boxes that were sent out to local food banks.

Chicago

In Chicago, our team split up to help two organizations. The first was Cradles to Crayons, where the team went through kids’ clothes and sorted them by categories. The other team volunteered with Urban Growers Collective in Chicago’s South Side. This Black- and women-led nonprofit provides jobs in urban agriculture and affordable, fresh food to underserved communities.

Cradles to Crayons gathers and disseminates used and nearly new children’s items through grassroots community drives and corporate donations.

Urban Growers Collective is a non-profit organization that builds urban farms and gardens, and provides fresh foods primarily in underprivileged areas in the West and South Side of Chicago.

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