Actian Employees Give Back for Earth Day

As a company that strongly believes in making human connections and embracing corporate social responsibility, Actian supports employees who volunteer their time and talents to help their communities. Our staff members around the globe are using volunteer time off to inspire positive change by building stronger communities.

For example, many of our employees recently took volunteer time off to participate in Earth Day activities. Actian organized events in various locations and encouraged all employees to participate in volunteer projects that helped and inspired others.

Organized events included:

Unity Park Community Garden, Round Rock, Texas

Actian employees helped improve the look and vibe of the garden by assisting with tasks such as weeding, gardening, and laying down mulch in the first community garden in the city of Round Rock. The community garden provides a local organic food supply, stewardship for land and water resources, a place to learn, and more.

“I had a great time working with Unity Park Community Garden in Round Rock for Earth Day,” said Siobhan Mulhern, Actian Executive Assistant. “The head gardener, Les, was helpful and knowledgeable and got us working quickly—while giving us all a few gardening tips.”

The garden offers 44 plots of various sizes for gardeners of all skill levels. The all-organic community garden grows produce for the Round Rock Serving Center and shares the latest organic gardening practices.

“Learning about how much organic produce they grow to donate to local food pantries made our tiny contribution of a few hours’ work feel more meaningful, and I intend to be involved going forward,” Mulhern said.

Hayling Island Beach, United Kingdom

Hayling Island Beach has more than three miles of beaches along the seafront in the county of Hampshire. Actian employees helped keep the beach clean by picking up trash. “We met on Hayling Island beach and walked east and picked up litter along the way,” said Karen Langridge, Regional Sales Director, Actian.

Ilmenau, Germany

Actian employees in Germany volunteered their time to collect garbage in nearby parks to contribute to a cleaner environment. Actian volunteers were encouraged to see that people are taking responsibility for their surroundings and making use of the numerous garbage cans to ensure that nature stays unblemished. The team, therefore, took its activity to an area closer to the city, near the market that takes place twice a week. There, the volunteers discovered their help was urgently needed—so much so that after three hours of collecting garbage, there was still a lot more to do!

The team believes that every day should be Earth Day. That’s because we all need to contribute to keeping our environment clean and healthy for everyone, for the entire year.

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About Saquondria Burris

Saquondria Burris serves as the Marketing Communications Manager at Actian. With over 10 years of experience in marketing and communications, Saquondria is a gifted writer who specializes in building marketing collateral and communications processes that reflect the architecture, voice, culture, and tone of brands. Saquondria has also worked with startups, and entrepreneurs in building out their marketing and communications strategies. Saquondria also couples her content management skills with SEO optimization. A Miami native and self-proclaimed beach bum, Saquondria spends her free time writing screenplays, attending live music concerts, and traveling.