In 2022, Lighthouse Cares orchestrated monetary contributions of more than $114,000 and time to 35 organizations totaling more than 1,300 volunteer hours to support important causes in the communities in which employees work and live.

In 2021, Lighthouse Cares rolled out Charity of the Month, a monthly program designed to enable employees to nominate and educate their colleagues on important charities in their lives.

Volunteer poll workers, who tend to be senior citizens, were expected to be in high demand due to COVID-19 risks. A few Lighthouse employees stepped up to use their volunteer time off benefit to fill this important role of working the polls on election day.

Lighthouse employees recently volunteered at the Marra Farm Giving Garden, a project run by Solid Ground, which focuses on ending poverty and undoing racism and other oppressions that are the root causes of poverty.

In August, Lighthouse celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by sharing resources with employees surrounding voter registration, mail-in ballots and polling locations, as well as ways employees can use their volunteer time off (VTO) and PTO to promote voting awareness.

It was the beginning of June and I had spent several evenings bent over my laptop watching multiple livestreams of the protests across the country, particularly in Seattle.