Sharing Talent, Technology, Time

While the Rockies made it to the World Series for the first time ever, the game touched even closer to home for some Sun employees in Colorado. Roughly 1 year ago a friend of an employee at Sun's Broomfield office was diagnosed with a rare and highly aggressive form of brain cancer. After extensive surgery and treatment he was sent home - only to find out a few weeks ago that the cancer had returned.  This was his last chance to see a World Series game.

Throughout fighting this disease, life as he had known it had drastically changed, however one of the things remaining constant was his devotion to the sports memorabilia store he owned. His family recognized this and wished they could get him tickets to the World Series game in Denver, but needed help funding the ticket.

Sun employees were pooling their resources to make this wish a reality, when thanks to one of our Sun employees in Broomfield, 2 tickets to the Rockies First World Series Game were DONATED to this family!

...Another example of Sun's incredible employees giving back to the communities where they work

On Thursday, August 16th a BBQ celebration was thrown in honor of the employees on Sun's Broomfield campus.  Not only did employees watch their colleagues show off their hidden talents in a competition, but in addition to the entertainment, Sun employees were invited to enjoy a free barbecue lunch, and the opportunity to share their success with the community. 

Sun, on a company level as well as on an individual level, understands and recognizes the importance of investing in the health and education of our future generations.  This is why Sun's Broomfield employees donated over $650, and Sun will match their employee's contributions and donate over $1,300 to the Community Food Share organization.

Sun's donation is supporting the Feed the Future program which provides groceries (each week) to 400 elementary school children that attend Columbine Elementary School in Longmont, CO.  Every Friday students who have had perfect attendance or an excused absence for that week recieve a 5-6 pound bag of groceries to take home.  Feedback from both students and parents have been very enthusiastic and supportive.  Students feel they are contributing to their family's well-being, and are encouraged to stay in school and invest in their own future.

Since the implementation of the program, Community Food Share reports that attendance has been near-perfect- 99%.  This means the children are in the classroom more, better able to learn, and are eating regularly.  With the high attendance each week, school staff know that the students are being fed at home through the feed the future program, as well as at school since 80-90% of students are also qualified to eat breakfast and lunch at school through Colorado's free and reduced lunch program.

Way to go Broomfield!