The Corporation for National and Community Service Recognizes Jumpstart Partnership
ATLANTA, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Corporation for National andCommunity Service has honored Pearson, the international education andinformation company, with this year's Corporate Spirit of Service award foroutstanding support of national service and volunteering. The Spirit ofService Award recognizes Pearson's exemplary support through its employees,businesses, and the Pearson Foundation of Jumpstart and the Read for theRecord Campaign.
The Spirit of Service Award was presented by David Eisner, CEO of theCorporation for National and Community Service, at the National Conference onVolunteering and Service, the world's largest gathering of volunteer andservice leaders. Pearson Foundation President Mark Nieker, and Bill Barke, CEOof Pearson's Higher Education Arts & Science Group, accepted the award onbehalf of Pearson on Sunday in Atlanta.
Pearson is Founding Partner and National Partner for Jumpstart's Read forthe Record 2008 Campaign (www.readfortherecord.org) -- the largestshared-reading experience on record -- helping Jumpstart raise over $2 millionto date for young children and rallying together hundreds of thousands ofindividuals across the world to volunteer for literacy. Together Jumpstart andPearson have worked to set a new standard for corporate-nonprofit partnershipscan impact the achievement gap in America.
'Pearson and our people are grateful for the recognition of theCorporation for National and Community Service,' said Nieker. 'As we beginJumpstart's Read for the Record 2008 Campaign, the Spirit of Service Awardencourages us to work even harder and to use all of Pearson's energy andresources to raise public awareness on October 2, 2008 about the importance ofearly literacy and to support Jumpstart's work so that every young childenters third grade able to read.'
'Social responsibility is at the core of Pearson's business, whether we'rehelping students achieve the best possible results at school, encouragingcollege students to become teachers, or helping business people make betterdecisions.
