June Anniversaries

Happy work anniversary to our June starts. If during each company snack, each team member starting in June had one packet of Dunkaroos, together they would have had 168 packets worth of frostable fun.

• Shao Li: 48 Snacks (4 years)
• Jay Bui: 48 Snacks (4 years)
• Ryan Campbell: 36 Snacks (3 years)
• Eric Jackson-Forsberg: 24 Snacks (2 years)
• Randy Clinton: 12 Snacks (1 year)

B with Us: West Paw Design

Did you know that UncommonGoods is a founding B Corp? B Corps are businesses certified by the nonprofit B Lab, which means they meet high standards in key areas of environment, workers, customers, community, and governance. B with Us is an ongoing series of posts that feature fellow B Corp members. This month, we're featuring West Paw Design.

Since 1996, West Paw Design has manufactured safe, durable and eco-friendly pet products in the USA. Pets add quality to life and West Paw Design's objective is to give them quality in return. Using recycled, organic and recyclable material, West Paw Design continually incorporates eco-friendly strategies into its manufacturing process. The Bozeman, Montana-based company has gained a strong and loyal following by offering products that are sustainably made in the USA.

As a team member of a fellow B Corp, you can get 25% off using the code: 2016BCorp.

June Birthdays

A very happy birthday to our June birthdays:

• 6/1: Derrick Funderburk

  

  We hope your birthday is a slam dunk!

• 6/5: Devin Richardson
• 6/5: Laura Frost
• 6/5: Nikki DeSautelle
• 6/6: Jessica McDonough
• 6/6: Rachel Foley
• 6/7: Jacqueline Udden
• 6/7: Randy Clinton
• 6/9: Thomas Romero
• 6/10: Anthony Carella
• 6/10: Kiki Kazickas
• 6/14: Rachel Veroff
• 6/15 Malcolm Cole
• 6/15: Michael Williams
• 6/16: Johnny Santos
• 6/17: Olguita Colon
• 6/17 Thomas Castillo
• 6/26: Jonathan  Medina
• 6/27: Jamie Hoffman
• 6/28: Fritzgerald Degraff
• 6/29: Sharon Chin
• 6/30: Chantelle Turnbull

Free Summer Movies NYC

NYC Parks Department is offering free events throughout the boroughs all summer. Among those events are free movies under the stars. This summer, the following films are playing throughout Brooklyn in June and July starting at 8:30pm (unless otherwise noted). Please check the location at the link above.

• Thursday, June 23: Jurassic World
• Friday, June 24: Subway
• Friday, June 24: Rent
• Friday, June 24: Selena
• Saturday, June 25: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Wednesday, June 29: Zootopia
• Friday, July 1: The 400 Blows
• Thursday, July 7: Singing' in the Rain (6:00pm start)
• Thursday, July 14: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle (6:00pm start)
• Thursday, July 21: Purple Rain (6:00pm start)
• Thursday, July 28: It Happened One Night (6:00pm start)

Now Introducing: The Uncommon Corps

As you know, through our Better to Give program, we've been able to build a better business by connecting our customers with nonprofits around the globe. With every purchase customers make, we're proud to donate $1 to the nonprofit of their choice.

Now, thanks to the overwhelming support of our team members, we want to expand on our efforts by creating the Uncommon Corps, a program offered by UncommonGoods to develop volunteer opportunities that tie in with our Better to Give partners. In order to challenge our team, we have set an annual company goal of 750 volunteer hours by our team.

Uncommon Corps: Reach Out and Read Event

In moving forward with supporting our Better to Give partners beyond monetary donations, we are partnering with Reach Out and Read to host a reading event at Lutheran Children’s Health (our neighbors) on Friday, July 8^th from 2:00-4:30pm. The event will have our Uncommon Corps volunteers read to young children, either in groups or one on one depending on the volunteer's comfort level. Representatives from Reach Out and Read will be here at UG on June 27^th from 1:30-2:00pm to speak to us about the program and to our interested team members about the July 8^th event.

Volunteers can read to children in a group or one on one.

Reach Out and Read became a Better to Give partner in early 2014. Their programs promote early literacy and school readiness for young children and their families in all 50 states through support from medical professionals. Each year, medical providers at the nearly 5,000 Reach Out and Read program sites nationwide distribute 6.5 million books to children and invaluable literacy advice to parents. Annually, 354,058 children are served here in New York through 306 Reach Out and Read Programs.

We're looking forward to welcoming Reach Out and Read to our campus and even more so for the event in July.  If you would like to attend the reading event, you must attend the 30-minute information session. Please RSVP to Sean (scullen@uncommongoods.com) no later than the end of the day on Friday, June 24.  We need to get a head count so that we can make appropriate arrangements.