Cabot's Reward Volunteers Continues To Recognize & Honor Volunteers Across The US

Cabot Creamery Cooperative Dairy August 4, 2014

Cabot, Vt. – After another busy month of volunteer activity, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, the farm family owned dairy cooperative widely known as the makers of the “World’s Best Cheddar,” is announcing the most recent round of Reward Volunteers winners. 16 selfless volunteers and one nonprofit organization will be rewarded with a variety of prizes, including a $500 donation, artisan cheese baskets, gift cards, a year’s supply of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and two different Vermont vacation getaways.

“We are extremely proud of this month’s winners,” says Jen Neary, Cabot Director of Marketing, Integrated Services, “who come from states all across the country. Their efforts help protect, enrich and uplift the lives of the animals, children and adults of their communities. Our goal for Reward Volunteers is to thank and honor those who give so much of their lives to helping others, and simultaneously inspire more people to become volunteers.”

One organization that shares a similar mission of getting people involved in volunteer activity, and who also encourages their members to use Reward Volunteers, is New York Cares. “New York Cares is NYC’s largest volunteer management organization, running vital programs for 1,300 nonprofits, public schools and city agencies to help people in need throughout the five boroughs, and does so at no cost to the recipient organizations,” says Erica Plofsky, Community and Media Relations Manager for New York Cares. “Since 1987, New York Cares has made it easy for all New Yorkers to work together to strengthen the city; last year, we provided critical services to more than 400,000 at-risk individuals.” New York Cares received a $500 donation from Reward Volunteers last month, which was directly due to the participation of its members.

Reward Volunteers launched in February of 2012. Since then, the program has grown every month, and given away thousands of dollars in cash and prizes to deserving volunteers and volunteer organizations. Reward Volunteers 5.0, the fifth iteration of the revolutionary iPhone app and web widget, has already seen more than 4,900 acts of kindness, generosity, and community support – totaling more than 25,000 hours – logged by individuals in service of non-profit organizations across the country.

The Reward Volunteers iPhone App and web widget from Cabot Creamery Cooperative enables individuals and organizations to track the time they spend volunteering in their communities, post to Facebook, and earn rewards for themselves and the organizations they serve. At the end of each month, Cabot rewards volunteers for their hard work, and for inspiring friends and family to do the same, with a variety of prizes. The more hours volunteers log, the more chances to win. Participation is absolutely free.

One of this month’s Reward Volunteers winners is Becky Eggers, a volunteer at Priceless Pets Rescue located in Chino Hills, California. “My family and I foster for Priceless Pets. They are a nonprofit, no-kill animal facility that rescues, rehabilitates and finds forever homes for unwanted cats and dogs. They are run solely on donations from our supporters and volunteers.  We have been lucky enough to help several litters of puppies in the six months we've been fostering for them. Thank you Reward Volunteers for the Vermont Vacation to Emergo Farms; my family and I would still volunteer even without the rewards, but it is definitely nice to be recognized with such a great prize.”

The prize list has grown for Reward Volunteers 5.0, and includes:

For a complete list of Reward Volunteers 5.0 prizes and prize winners, visit rewardvolunteers.coop/prizes.php.

Reward Volunteers was conceived and created by Cabot Creamery Cooperative, and is sponsored by AARP Create the Good, All for Good, Marriott, Co+op Stronger Together, Hope for Women, Points of Light, and Volunteer Spot.

LATEST PRIZE WINNERS

$500 to a Non-Profit Organization

Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity

Vermont Vacation at Emergo Farms

Becky Eggers., CA – Priceless Pet Rescue

3-Night Midweek Getaway at The Red Clover Inn

Jeremy G., WI – USO of Wisconsin

Dakin Farm $50 Gift Card & 1/3lb Chaseholm Camembert from Chaseholm Farm

Jeanne H., SC – Brookgreen Gardens

King Arthur Flour $100 Gift Card

Bridget W., VA – Blue Cheese FRC Team 1086

Marie W., NJ – Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary

A Year’s Supply of Ben & Jerry’s

Addy C., NH – Kitty Angels

Authentic Patriotism by Stephen Kiernan & Ledge Haven Maple Syrup

Rhonda D., GA – Noah’s Ark

Julie S., PA – Pittsburgh Mennonite Church

Positively Ageless & a Healthy Cookbook by Cheryl Forberg & Taylor Farm Maple Smoked Farmstead Gouda

Jason C., VA – Spotsylvania Volunteer Fire Department

Dansko Shoes

Patricia E., NH – Girl Scouts of the Green & White Mountains

Marie B., SC – Brookgreen Gardens

Sending Milk by Skye Chalmers & CowPots Seed Starter Pots

Kayla S., PA – Discover Downtown Johnstown Partnership

Tammy W., TN – Walden’s Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center

Caroline F., VA – Safari Club International

Stephanie G., NC – Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity

2lb Cheese Wheel from Stoltzfus

Rita W., GA – Noah’s Ark

A complete list of the organizations benefiting from the Reward Volunteers can be accessed at: http://www.cabotcheese.coop/orgs.html

ABOUT CABOT CREAMERY COOPERATIVE

Cabot Creamery Cooperative has been in continuous operation in Vermont since 1919, and makes a full line of cheeses, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese and butter. Widely known as makers of “The World’s Best Cheddar,” Cabot is owned by the 1200 dairy farm families of Agri-Mark, the Northeast’s premier dairy cooperative, with farms located throughout New England and upstate New York. For more information on Cabot, visit: http://www.cabotcheese.coop.

Cabot Creamery Cooperative is the world’s first cheese maker and dairy cooperative to achieve B Corporation Certification, a validation of its attention to environmental and social impacts on stakeholders.

Source:  Cabot Creamery Cooperative