Protiviti recognizes that volunteerism is the most direct way our employees can impact their communities. Therefore, we encourage our professionals to determine the civic-involvement opportunities that are most important to them. In addition, we are proud to support employees and their charities of choice through programs such as our matching-gifts program.

Our professionals are devoted to giving back to the communities in which they work and live. Highlights of Protiviti’s community service projects throughout the U.S. include:

1. Gathering a team of "elves" to build bikes for the Houston area's less fortunate children during the holidays.
2. Chicago employees dressing up to help provide more than 25,000 children and adults with free trick-or-treating fun at the Lincoln Park Zoo's Halloween celebration.
3. Coming in fourth place for the second consecutive year in Phoenix’s "Hill of Beans" food drive.
4. Playing in and fundraising for the March of Dimes Mudd Volleyball Tournament in Denver.
5. While deployed on a client project on the Gulf Coast, volunteering in the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
6. Volunteering at the annual Wilkinson Center Back-to-School Shoe Drive, which helps more than 1,000 Dallas-area children receive new shoes and socks for the start the school year.
7. Making an in-kind donation of $30,000 worth of office space in St. Louis to the local chapter of Gilda’s Club, which supports individuals living with cancer.
8. Holding a clothing drive for So Others Might Eat (SOME), an organization that focuses on meeting the immediate daily needs of the poor and homeless in Washington, D.C.
9. Participating as the "Chefs du Jour" to serve more than 40 people at the Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati.
10. Organizing a bowl-a-thon in New York to raise $5,600 for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
11. Being recognized as a United Way Pacesetter Company for raising more than $35,000 in donations in Dallas.
12. Supporting the Chicago office’s CommUnity Scholarship Program, which provides renewable college scholarships to students that need assistance with paying for college.
13. Participating in the San Francisco Bay Area's annual Waves to Wine 150-mile cycling event in support of local residents living with multiple sclerosis (MS).
14. Annually lending a hand at the Piedmont Park Clean and Green to help preserve this local park in Atlanta.

To read about the community relations efforts of Robert Half International Inc. (RHI), the parent company of Protiviti, please visit www.rhi.com/philanthropy.