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The annual Trail Blazers Harvest Dinner provides thousands of hot holiday-style meals to Portland-area homeless and transitional individuals and families. In 2007, the team partnered with the City of Portland and Multnomah County’s collaboration, Project Home less Connect – a 10-year plan to end homelessness in Portland. Enhancing the annual dinner, the event provides guests with health, housing and employment services, haircuts and hygiene services, and animal care.
Through the Trail Blazers Youth Corps program, the team has invested over $500,000 over the past six years engaging thousands of teenagers across the state in civic leadership and service learning projects. The youth contribute thousands of volunteer hours in their communities and have administered the granting of more than $200,000 throughout Or egon and southwest Washington.
With a corporate culture that promotes volunteerism, the Trail Blazers employee volunteer program provides staff many opportunities to support hundreds of local non-profi ts each year, impacting the lives of more than 20,000 individuals and families each year. Employ ees are also given time off to volunteer for education and mentorship programs. The Trail Blazers received the National Points of Light Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service for the team’s volunteer and community service efforts. The team was the fi st and continues to be the only professional sports team to achieve this honor.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Hands on Greater Portland have partnered over the past fi e years to host the “Trail Blazers Heart of the Community Awards,” an annual Valentine’s Day luncheon that honors exemplary volunteers and organizations that have demonstrated a strong dedication to and advocacy for volunteerism. Extending their partnership and commitment to volunteerism beyond this event, Hands on Greater Portland and the team have also introduced a new opportunity for fans to connect with volunteer projects through the iamatrailblazersfan.com web site, a social networking site for Trail Blazer fans.
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