The following is a list of projects that were registered for the Giving and Sharing season.
United Way Thanksgiving Basket project, Tennessee
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit Nashville Business Center (Public Affairs Department)
Project: Employees assembled and then delivered 110 large Thanksgiving food baskets to needy families.
McNeilly Angel Wish project, Tennessee
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit Nashville Business Center (Public Affairs Department)
Project: Individuals and employee teams at FMCC Nashville Business Center helped make the holidays bright for 90 low-income pre-schoolers. The employees purchased toys and clothing for each child, wrapped the gifts, and gave them to parents, hidden in black bags until Christmas morning.
Escola Primaria Luisa Ducia Soares (Elementary School), Lisbon, Portugal
Team Location: FCE Portugal - all departments
Project: Volunteers transformed a kindergarten/elementary school with fresh paint and hand painted, whimsical murals.
Child & Family Services of MI, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Fund & Comm. Serv.
Project: Team members participated in Operation Good Cheer by providing requested gifts to young children.
Detroit Zoo (Zoo Boo), Michigan
Team Location: Allen Park Test Lab
Boys & Girls Republic, Michigan
Team Location: IT HQ
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: IT FOCI
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Engine PMA
Detroit Zoo (Zoo Boo), Michigan
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Mainframe Op. Systems
Project: Helped get the Parade Company floats and characters ready for their "big day".
Community Opportunity Center, Michigan
Team Location: STA-B&E Hardware
Habitat for Humanity, Michigan
Team Location: B & C Car Fuel Economy
St. Leo's Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Fordstar Ops
Project: Assisted with food organization and distribution
Gleaner's Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: Cost Estimating
Gleaner's Community Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: iTekE
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: IT HQ
Project: Repaired costumes and added the finishing touches to Parade floats and characters.
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Manufacturing & Production Engineering
Project: Santa Claus received help getting his sleigh and many parade floats ready for his arrival in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day.
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Management Info Sys, FMCC
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: Powertrain Ops - Dearborn
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Powertain Ops - Livonia
Arts & Scraps, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit
Focus Hope, Michigan
Team Location: PDC - Body Interior
St. Leo's Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Team Location: Powertrain Ops - Livonia
Gleaner's Community Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: PDC - Chassis
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Customer Service Div
Project: Volunteers gave floats one final bath before their Thanksgiving Day debut.
Arts & Scraps, Michigan
Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, Michigan
Team Location: Rouge Site Ops & Maintenance
Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, Michigan
Team Location: Systems Development & PAC
Project: Helped rehabilitate the historic Model T Automotive Heritage Complex in Detroit.
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Cost Estimating
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: ASR Ar/BI Launch Project
St. Leo's Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Team Location: IT Security & Controls
COTS, Michigan
Team Location: Commericial Truck Program
Silver Key Senior Services, Colorado
Team Location: Colorado Springs Business Center
Project: Giving Tree for gifts, Meals on Wheels delivery, and food baskets for area Senior Citizens and delivery to Silver Key
The Children's Center, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: Corporate Risk Management, Dearborn
Habitat for Humanity, Michigan
Team Location: Pre-Production - Focus Program
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Safety Systems - Mustang
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: iTekE
Project: The residents will enjoy the tree that Ford volunteers set up and the Center expects to receive 1/3 of their funding from the mailing that was processed.
Capuchin Soup Kitchen Warehouse, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Motor Credit
Project: Detroit Piston, Rip Hamilton, helped Ford volunteers give out hundreds of Thanksgiving turkeys and bags of groceries.
Gleaners Community Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: IT FMCC, Dearborn
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Prototype Vehicle Dev., Dearborn
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: iTekW
County Emergency & Community Services Holiday Shoppe, New Jersey
Team Location: Ford Lincoln Mercury Sales Operations - Philadelphia Region
Project: Ford elves recruited all the tenants in their 11 building office park in Mt. Laurel, N.J., decorated a F150 as Santa's sleigh, collected and then delivered several truckloads of clothing and toys for needy area children, infant thru 12 years old, identified by the Emengency Services team.
Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Catholic Charities Holiday Meal Program, Ohio
Team Location: Northeast Ohio Ford Community Relations Committee
Project: Donated $5,000 and will help carve turkeys for over 30,000 meals
Focus: HOPE, Michigan, Michigan
Team Location: E/E Big Bang
The Parade Company, Michigan
Team Location: Corporate Design - Electronic Math Modeling
Project: The Ford team saw the fruit of their labors as the floats they worked on looked great traveling down Woodward Avenue on Thanksgiving Day.
Henry Ford Estate - Fairlane, Michigan
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Michigan
Team Location: IT Regent Court
UAW Local 182's 14th Annual Labor of Love Christmas Party, Michigan
Team Location: Chassis - PDC
Project: Volunteers wrapped presents and helped decorate the Union Hall for the party being given for over 200 disadvantaged children.
Focus: HOPE, Michigan
Team Location: iTekE
Methodist Children's Home Society, Michigan
Team Location: CE Body Interior - Outfit
Habitat for Humanity, Michigan
Team Location: APC Basic Design
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: iTekW
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: V6/V8 Engine & Forming
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Canyon Acres Children's Services, Orangewood Children's Home, and Hands Together - A Center for Children, California
Team Location: CRC and PAG of Irvine, CA
Project: Over 450 employees attended the Ford Spirit of the Holidays Party and donated 600 gifts and toys for the children of three local agencies.
Nashville Public Television, Tennesse
Team Location: FMCC Nashville Business Center
Project: Volunteers staffed the Nashville Public Television (WNPT) phone bank during the "Nashville World War II Stories" programming sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund.
Focus: HOPE, Michigan
Open Door Mission, Nebraska
Team Location: FMCC - Omaha Business Center
Project: The Ford team packed food boxes and sorted donated toys and clothing for distribution to needy families.
Boys and Girls Republic, Michigan
Team Location: Retail Variable Market Finance
Project: Holiday decorating, wrapping gifts, plus other projects
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Michigan
Team Location: Powertrain Operations - Dearborn
Open Door Mission, Nebraska
Team Location: FMCC - Omaha Business Center
Project: The Ford team packed food boxes and sorted donated toys and clothing for distribution to needy families.
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: STA Powertrain, Dearborn
Project: This Ford team brought some holiday cheer to many of the resident children at the Penrickton Center for Blind Children.
Volunteers of America, Michigan
Team Location: Allen Park Test Lab - VEE
Project: Assistance wrapping 1,000's of donated toys
Arbor Hospice & Home Care, Michigan
Team Location: Powertrain Operations - Livonia
Project: Thousands of beautiful lights now decorate the Arbor Hospice facility thanks to this Ford team.
Open Door Mission, Nebraska
Team Location: FMCC - Omaha Business Center
Project: The Ford team packed food boxes and sorted donated toys and clothing for distribution to needy families.
World Medical Relief Inc., Michigan
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Power Train Operations
Volunteers of America, Michigan
Team Location: Vehicle Visibility
Project: Volunteers wrapped gifts for distribution to needy children.
World Medical Relief Inc., Michigan
Adopt a Family, Michigan
Team Location: Rawsonville Plant - hourly & salary
Project: Two Holiday parties for local disadvantaged children were held at UAW Local 898. One hundred thirty-four children attended and each received lunch, a visit with Santa and $200 worth of gifts (winter outerwear, other essentials, bicycles and toys).
Open Door Mission, Nebraska
Team Location: FMCC - Omaha Business Center
Project: The Ford team packed food boxes and sorted donated toys and clothing for distribution to needy families.
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Penrickton Center for Blind Children, Michigan
Team Location: IT FMCC, Dearborn
City of Henderson Salvation Army's Christmas Angels, Nevada
Team Location: Henderson Business Center
Project: Nearly every team, Employee Group and many individuals at the Henderson Business Center donated money so toys and clothing could be purchased for 225 needy children. This is the sixth year the Center has participated in this event.
Salvation Army's Christmas Angels, Henderson, Nevada, Nevada
Team Location: Ford Credit at the Henderson Business Center
Salvation Army - Dearborn Hgts Senior Luncheon, Michigan
Team Location: Infrastructure, PMO
Ruth Ellis Center, Michigan
Team Location: Ford GLOBE
Project: GLOBE is collecting food, clothing and cash for youth visiting the Ruth Ellis Center, a social service agency in Ferndale.
Salvation Army - Dearborn Hgts.Toy Shop, Michigan
Team Location: Infrastructure, PMO
Gleaners Community Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: Industrial Eng/Ergo, Dearborn
Project: Twelve employees from Vehicle Operations and Product Development helped sort and pack 216 boxes or 12 pallets of unperishable food items which will be distributed to organizations in Detroit.
Salvation Army, Colorado
Team Location: Denver Region FLM Sales, FCSD and American Road
Project: Employees donated Christmas gifts to disadvantaged children through the Angel Tree Project.
Salvation Army, Michigan
Team Location: Body Engineering FCG
Project: Volunteers will assist parents as they "shop" for their children in the special Wayne/Westland Toy Shop.
Open Door Mission, Nebraska
Team Location: FMCC - Omaha Business Center
Project: The Ford team packed food boxes and sorted donated toys and clothing for distribution to needy families.
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Global Product Marketing
Salvation Army, Michigan
Team Location: Brownstown Customer Service Div
Project: Assited with sorting and set-up in Toy Shop.
St. Leo's Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Team Location: Power Train Operations
Arts & Scraps, Michigan
Focus: HOPE, Michigan
Team Location: PDC Chassis
Malachi House, Ohio
Team Location: Cleveland Casting Plant, Human Resources (Diversity Council)
Project: Wish list gifts were purchased, wrapped and delivered to the terminally ill Malachi House residents participating in the Adopt a Senior project.
ReCycle ReUse Ann Arbor, Michigan
Team Location: IT, Dearborn
Project: Assisted in sorting and organizing donated items for resale.
Starfish Family Services, Michigan
Team Location: Sterling Plant Finance
Canton Goodfellows, Michigan
Team Location: : Prototype $amp; Test Planning - PDC
Project: Employees collected and wrapped food and gifts for over 240 needy families with a total of 560 children living in the Canton area.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Michigan
Team Location: Consumer Mrktg, Sales Div, WHQ
Vista Maria, Michigan
Team Location: Powertrain Operations
Alternative for Girls, Boys & Girls Republic and Operation Good Cheer, S.E. Michigan, Michigan
Team Location: Regent Court (Market Representation)
Gleaners Community Food Bank, Michigan
Team Location: Flex/Taurus X Marketing
Project: Assisted with distribution of Christmas food baskets.
Life Center Assisted Living Center, Florida
Team Location: Orlando Region FLM office
Project: Eighteen Ford volunteers cheered the elderly and infirm residents living in an Altamonte Springs facility with holiday caroling and friendly visiting.
Merrill Gardens Retirement Community, Arizona
Team Location: National Recovery Center - FMCC
Project: Volunteers collected donations, purchased and distributed gifts and spent quality time visiting with local senior citizens.
Vista Maria, Michigan
Team Location: West Park Center, Dearborn
Food Gatherers, Michigan
Team Location: Marketing & Sales Ops
Project: Assisted with food organization and distribution of food baskets.
Haven, Michigan
Salvation Army, Michigan
Team Location: Research & Advanced Engineering
Westland Toy Shop, Michigan
Team Location: Body Engineering FCG
Project: Employees ran the Toy Shop, helping parents choose gifts, and then delivered food baskets and toys to sponsored families.
Salvation Army Toy Store, Dearborn Hgts, Michigan, Michigan
Team Location: ITHQ, Allen Park, Michigan
Boys & Girls Republic, Michigan
Team Location: WSI PMO
Vista Maria, Michigan
Team Location: Research & Adv Engin.
Project: Assisted with gift wrapping.
Vista Maria, Michigan
Team Location: SE & S Engineering, Allen Park
Project: A group from Vehicle Environmental Engineering helped wrap hundreds of gifts for the girls at Vista Maria.
Vista Maria, Michigan
Team Location: Research & Advanced Engineering
Project: Employees cheerfully wrapped hundreds of gifts for the residents of Michigan's largest residential and community-based treatment agency for high-risk girls, 11 to 17 years old.
Salvation Army - Dearborn Hgts Toy Shop, Michigan
Team Location: Infrastructure, PMO
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Michigan
Team Location: Infrastructure, PMO
Project: Generous employees collected 6000 toys for the children in the Toys for Tots program. Two Marines from 1st Bn, 24th Marines out of Mt. Clemens, MI attended the donation ceremony and accepted the gifts from UAW Plant Chairman, Joel Goddard, and Plant Manager, Mark Willis.
Boys & Girls Republic, Michigan
Team Location: WSI PMO
Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Michigan
Team Location: Ford Production System Dept.
Cans for Kids, Michigan
Team Location: Romeo Engine Plant - IT
Project: Employees used donated can deposits to purchase and deliver a wonderful assortment of gifts for 17 local disadvantaged children and 10 more families received holiday turkeys.
Cleveland’s Harvard Senior Center, Ohio
Team Location: Cleveland Casting Plant, Human Resources (Diversity Council)
Project: The Diversity Council, Cleveland Manufacturing retirees and employee children helped Santa bring Christmas cheer and gifts to the fixed-income seniors at the Harvard Senior Center as part of the Adopt-a-Senior Christmas Program.
Goodrich-Gannett Settlement, Ohio
Team Location: Cleveland Casting Plant, Human Resources (Diversity Council)
Project: The Cleveland Manufacturing Site Diversity Council celebrated the holidays with the seniors at the Goodrich-Gannett Settlement House. The generous Ford employees provided gifts, special treats, and friendly visiting at the Adopt a Senior Christmas Party.
Strongsville’s SARAH Center, Ohio
Team Location: Cleveland Casting Plant, Human Resources (Diversity Council)
Project: Cleveland Manufacturing employees enjoyed the Christmas party they organized for senior citizens at the SARAH Center.