Company: TriNet Group, Inc
Company Description: TriNet is a leading provider of a comprehensive human resources solution for small to medium-sized businesses, or SMBs. We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their human resources, or HR, function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our HR solution includes services such as payroll processing, human cap
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year - At Organizations With Up to 2,500 Employees

Nomination Title: TriNet Cares Makes a Difference in Communities Across the Nation

Tell the story about this nominated CSR program as it has been carried out since January 1, 2014 (up to 650 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms.

In 2014, TriNet Cares had its best year yet. We donated over $250,000 to more than 50 nonprofit organizations across the United States. Additionally, more than 500 TriNet employees volunteered nearly 2,000 hours to projects benefitting more than 10,000 community members in 40 locations across the nation where TriNet has a presence.

TriNet Cares focuses on our mission statement of fostering leadership and colleague engagement through volunteer opportunities, charitable giving and green initiatives that impact TriNet and the communities where we live.

Volunteer work in 2014 included building backpacks of school supplies for children in need, organizing after-school activities for children, sprucing up shelters, collecting donations of food, clothes and toys for those in need, providing support to survivors of domestic violence and remodeling classrooms at a Boys & Girls club.

These events were volunteer-driven and provided colleagues across locations, departments, products and teams the opportunity to work together on worthy and rewarding causes they felt passionate about. TriNet Cares supported and encouraged colleagues to take leadership roles in coordinating onsite events, as well as by supporting nonprofits through donations, sponsorships and by becoming board members.

All regular, full-time TriNet employees are eligible to take one paid day off (eight hours) per calendar year in order to perform volunteer work. Employees have the option to coordinate their own volunteer efforts on a day of their choosing or to participate in a pre-selected company-wide day of giving.
One company-wide day of giving back is coordinated with Big Sunday, giving TriNet colleagues a chance to come together, in our various parts of the country, for a weekend of doing good for a cause of their choice.

Big Sunday volunteers have given back in a variety of ways, including by refurbishing the yard of a family shelter, donating time to homeless animals, baking cookies for a senior center, writing letters to deployed troops, cleaning a local beach, repainting a homeless shelter, hosting disadvantaged students for a picnic outing and refurbishing a community garden.

As an additional outreach project, In August and September of 2014, more than 1,500 TriNet colleagues stuffed backpacks with school supplies for underprivileged children for the Kids in Need Foundation. All in all, more than 3,400 backpacks filled with pens, pencils, binders, rulers and so other school supplies, representing over $70,000 in donations from TriNet, were filled.

In another inter-company outreach event, TriNet Colleagues completed a charity walking challenge throughout the first quarter of 2014, with 270 participants competing on 12 teams. By “stepping it up” for charity, the three teams with the most steps, on average, won a donation to a charity of their choice, with $8,000 in donations split between an animal rescue, a shelter and the Make a Wish Foundation. The Chicago team got together to participate in the Making Strides 4 Mental Health run.

These company-wide service days provide an opportunity for colleagues to get together to share the creation of something meaningful, build teamwork and give back to the community in a meaningful way.

Supporting Quote:
Laurel A. Lynch, Executive Director, Hope Family Services
“You are that whisper to women and their children who come to Hope’s shelter for safety, refuge and peace. Your donation for the purchase of trikes, scooters, helmets, signs and a wagon for the children’s playground, boxed lunches for the residents, paint and supplies and most of all, your hard work and time, helps give victims and their children the opportunity and strength to move beyond their abuse and live healthy, violence-free lives.”

In bullet-list form, briefly summarize up to ten (10) chief achievements since January 1, 2014 of the nominated CSR program (up to 150 words).

• Colleagues in the Miami-area organized after-school activities for children in a homeless assistance shelter while 22 colleagues in Bradenton, Florida collected donations of food and money to benefit Hope Family Services, as well as also painted the shelter interior and assembled mobile equipment for the playground.
• Colleagues in TriNet’s Southern California locations got together to paint a women’s shelter, while the team in Orlando treated kids at one of their local shelters to a fun-filled day of events.
• TriNet volunteers in both Reno and the Bay Area provided donations of supplies, rehab projects and interaction with children at their respective local Boys & Girls clubs.
• Houston and Boston colleagues reached out to local centers serving the elderly with donations of supplies and social time.