RuffaloCODY Employees Donate a Day’s Work to Habitat for Humanity House in New Orleans
A dozen employees from RuffaloCODY’s MASTERS Program for On-campus Phonathon Management division traded their Blackberries and laptop computers for claw hammers and tape measures on January 18, when they donated a day’s labor to help build a Habitat for Humanity Home in hurricane and flood-ravaged New Orleans, LA. According to Vice President of Operations Joe Marruchella, the work crew reported at 7:45 a.m. and helped measure and install siding on the Habitat house. “It was a tough work day, but almost everyone was disappointed we couldn’t stay longer and finish the tasks we were doing at the end of the day,” said Marruchella, who estimated that the RuffaloCODY crew finished siding about 30% of the house with assistance from a team of students from Wellesley College.
“The entire RuffaloCODY group worked closely as a team, with all titles and ‘boss vs. staff’ work relationships put aside,” Marruchella added. “Plus, no one was hurt, and everyone had a great time.”
Marruchella said the biggest challenge of the day for the intrepid group of office dwellers was trying to open the on-site storage trailer to put away their tools and equipment after the shift ended. “After about 15 minutes of fighting with the trailer door, we finally got help with that task, and then it was smooth sailing,” he said.
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With an enrollment of 6,600 students and located 30 miles from the Minnesota Twin Cities, the University of Wisconsin – River Falls is one of the member institutions of the University of Wisconsin System. The UWRF Foundation was established in 1948 as one of the state’s first non-profit state college foundations, and advances causes of the university through its philanthropic mission.
