Enjoying a Le Cordon Bleu student-prepared dinner before taking in a private screening of Julie & Julia? Who knew philanthropy could be so…delicious!
And FLiPs who are working on building or implementing volunteer programs at your organizations, take note; be inspired by this creative example: Career Education Corporation launched its new partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) with the special Le Cordon Bleu promotion, of which RMHC was the beneficiary. In Columbia Pictures’ Julie & Julia, Julia Child attends and graduates from Le Cordon Bleu Paris before becoming a culinary icon for professional and home cooks. Fourteen of the Le Cordon Bleu schools in the U.S., owned by Career Education Corporation, celebrated the film’s release with an exclusive “Dinner and a Movie” series. On Aug. 5, Le Cordon Bleu students created and served a special movie-inspired menu. Each dinner guest also attended a private screening of the movie in his or her area. More than $13,000 was raised and donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities.
But the partnership only begins there. Employees, faculty and students at Career Education Corporation’s headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill., and 68 ground and three online institutions in the U.S. will make monetary and in-kind donations and provide volunteer services to support global and local RMHC operations and programs. Career Education Corporation’s more than 90,000 students and 12,000 employees in the U.S. represent a substantial volunteer workforce to support RMHC and the nearly 3.7 million children worldwide it serves every year. The company has established a number of programs with its schools to facilitate relationships and generate monetary donations for individual Houses across the U.S.
For more information on RMHC, please visit www.rmhc.org. For more information on Career Education Corporation, please see the company’s website at www.careered.com.
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