WHAT:
Twenty employees from Time Warner Cable, Mid Ohio will donate custom made teddy bears and Connect A Million Minds backpacks to Nationwide Children’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Unit staff for distribution to patients living with cancer.
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 25
2:30 pm - media opportunity
WHERE:
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Outpatient Care Center, 555 S. 18th St.
WHO/WHY:
As part of a team-building activity, 80 employees from the Time Warner Cable (TWC) Payment Services department created stuffed bears during games and contests that included “bear-dressing” races to determine which employees would deliver the donation to Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Each bear will include a backpack and educational supplies as part of TWC’s philanthropic initiative Connect a Million Minds. Connect a Million Minds is a five-year, $100 million cash and in-kind philanthropic initiative to address America’s declining proficiency in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), which puts children at risk of not competing successfully in a global economy.
TWC launched this initiative in conjunction with President Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” campaign, designed to improve the participation and performance of America’s students in STEM. At the official Educate to Innovate launch, President Obama singled out TWC as a leader in developing public-private partnerships that inspire young people to pursue education and careers in STEM. He also announced that TWC Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt, along with four other visionary business leaders and former astronaut Sally Ride, would become the founding board members of Change the Equation, a new non-profit, non-partisan CEO-led initiative to solve America’s innovation problem and spread STEM literacy in the United States.
Contact:
Erin Pope
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Media Relations
614-355-0495