Community Counts

Giving back to the community is something the employees of Corporate Network Services value very highly. Through our Community Counts program we support multiple organizations in our local area by donating food, money, expertise, or equipment; raise funds to support the missions of select partner charities; and participate as proud members of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Montgomery County.

CNS employees gather to wrap holiday gifts for a family of 5 that the company sponsored through WUMCO. All of the children’s wishes were granted thanks to the generous staff at CNS.

CNS and Anvil Dataworks employees collected 400 children’s books to donate to charity. Here, Denise and Karen clean and sort books to prepare for a delivery to Bright Beginnings child development center in Washington DC.

CNS joined up with Do Good Adventures for the Chesapeake Bay Clean Up Day 2011 to install rain barrels at The Button Farm in Germantown, MD. The rain barrels will help divert water away from the farm house while screening out sediment before reaching the Seneca Creek and the Potomac River. In this photo, volunteers sort gravel which was used to line the trenches dug later in the day for the water pipes.

CNS PROSuite Support Centre Technician, Robert Hyatt, takes a moment during his volunteer day at Bright Beginnings day care center for homeless children in Washington DC to pose with a student selecting a backpack for his first day of school. Robert was configuring a new computer system donated by Microsoft and HP.

Corporate Network Services employees collected personal items to pack into kits for deployed soldiers and assembled them at the company’s Quarterly Meeting in October 2010. The kits are going to a military police unit from Maryland that has been overseas since June. Local businesses from Poolesville also contributed to the effort: Hilary Schwab Photography, Drs. Pike and Valega, and Selby’s Market.

CNS sponsored a document shredding truck at the 2010 Poolesville Business Fair. We shredded 2800 lbs. of paper, which was recycled after being shredded. This has become an annual event for CNS.

Kids are important to CNS: we sponsored new playground equipment at Poolesville Elementary School and received this permanent brick under the flag pole as a thank you.

CNS gathered 80 pounds of staple groceries for WUMCO’s pantry on Martin Luther King Day 2010 during its annual company meeting. We continue to honor his service by collecting food every year.

Denise Jacklin from CNS wraps gifts for the family the company sponsored during the holidays of 2009. Almost everything on the family’s wish list was granted thanks to generous employees.

CNS employees volunteered together on Community Service Day 2009 to help Star Gazing Farm in Boyds, MD.