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2022 Community Service Update
The Thornton Tomasetti Gives Back program supports our employees’ passion for community service, encouraging them to build relationships and challenging them to grow. This three-pronged initiative encompasses local volunteerism through our Volunteer Days benefit, mentoring the next generation of professionals through the ACE Mentor Program, and helping disadvantaged communities through our partnership with Bridges to Prosperity.
Volunteer Days allows 16 paid hours per year for each employee to perform community service. In 2022, among other activities, many employees took advantage of this benefit to help clean and beautify parks in under-resourced areas of their cities. The program has proven popular, with 240 employees participating and 976 volunteer hours recorded in 31 offices.
ACE’s Engineering Inc. magazine profiles how we're helping make a difference through Thornton Tomasetti Gives Back.
Since the 1994 creation of the ACE Mentor Program by Thornton Tomasetti Founding Principal Charles Thornton, the firm has been a major sponsoring partner at both the local and national levels. Our employees are dedicated mentors and board members, helping achieve ACE's mission to engage, excite and enlighten high school students, and empower them to pursue AEC careers. One hundred employees logged 979 hours as ACE volunteers. This represents approximately 2,000 hours of actual service, as the firm permits 50% of mentoring hours to be recorded as paid time.
The third prong of the Thornton Tomasetti Gives Back program takes our people across the globe to apply their skills and resources in aid of disadvantaged people in remote regions. We partner with Bridges to Prosperity to construct pedestrian bridges in isolated communities, as lifelines to schools, healthcare, markets and vital services. Construction of a third bridge in Rwanda was temporarily delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but we now have plans to resume our work in July 2023.