Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Cynthia Fuentes, left, and Brian Foley help fill sandbags at Santa Clara Pueblo in 2011. They are assisted by Brenden Baca, 9. Courtesy photo
LANL News:
- Employees and retirees perform 270,000 volunteer hours
Nonprofit organizations will receive more than $180,000 from Los Alamos National Security (LANS), LLC during a recognition event beginning at 9:30 a.m. June 12, at Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos.
LANS contributions are determined by the number of volunteer hours logged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and retirees through a web-based organization called VolunteerMatch and through the Los Alamos Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP).
Deputy Laboratory Director Beth Sellers is scheduled to be the keynote speaker and present awards. Sellers also will recognize the top volunteers and nonprofit organizations.
“The genuine care and commitment Laboratory employees and retirees have for their communities are clearly demonstrated by the number of hours volunteered to these nonprofit organizations,” said Kurt Steinhaus, director of the Community Programs Office, which manages the Laboratory’s volunteer program.
Since the Laboratory joined VolunteerMatch and RSVP in 2007, nearly 3,000 Los Alamos employees and retirees reported more than 1.2 million volunteer hours. In 2012, more than 269,000 hours of volunteer service were reported through the Laboratory’s Vecinos volunteer program.
Vecinos is Spanish for neighbor. Additionally, LANS has distributed more than $712,000 to nonprofits on behalf of employees and retiree volunteers since 2007.
