Archive for the Month of Action category

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Message de “Bâtir la relève” et le nettoyage des rives de Verdun!

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En avril dernier, toute l’équipe de “Bâtir la relève” a été mandatée afin de mettre sur pied un événement philanthropique, soit de recruter des bénévoles afin de nettoyer les berges de Verdun.

Nous avons dû rapidement nous organiser, car avec 16 membres dans l’équipe de bâtir la relève, provenant de différentes fonctions et des 4 coins du Québec (et même de Moncton), il était urgent de définir/connaître nos rôles et responsabilités.  

L’objectif étant de trouver 100+ participants, ce qui n’est pas une tâche facile connaissant l’emploi du temps de tous un chacun, il nous a rapidement fallu monter un plan d’action, allant de la communication à l’organisation de la journée même. Et puis, est venu le temps de se servir de nos contacts afin d’aller chercher des commanditaires, car, avec  500 $ de budget pour réaliser l’événement, nous ne pouvions nous en passer !

La semaine précédant l’événement, quelques petits détails restaient à compléter dont l’obtention de notre permis d’alcool.  Pour être très honnêtes, nous l’avons finalement obtenu une journée avant l’événement, de quoi donner des brûlements d’estomac !

Après tous ces préparatifs, le jour J est enfin arrivé. Alors qu’en début de semaine, Miss météo nous avait annoncé du beau temps, le déluge nous tombait sur la tête. À 8 h 30, nous n’avions toujours pas pris la décision d’annuler ou pas. Le niveau de stress était à son comble, après avoir mis tant d’énergie…  Finalement, 8 h 40, à 20 minutes du départ des autobus, on tranche, on y va! Tant pis pour la pluie, on va faire ce qu’on peut au risque d’avoir seulement 20 participants.

Quelle agréable surprise lorsque nous avons vu se remplir le premier autobus puis le second! 95 % de bénévoles inscrits sont venu prêter main-forte malgré la mauvaise température. WOW! Tous ont ratissé les berges à la recherche d’ordures, dont certaines étaient assez inusitées… Une hotte de cuisinière, un sac de couchage, de nombreux sous-vêtements, un air climatisé …

Maintenant que l’événement est terminé, nous sommes fiers de notre réalisation qui nous a permis de sortir de nos zones de confort, travailler en équipe et au-delà des silos.

Merci à Molson de nous permettre de telles expériences !

Monday, September 19th, 2011

100+ Québec employees cleaning up the Verdun Shoreline!

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Last Thursday, September 15, within the scope of our “SEPTEMBER WATER STEWARDSHIP MONTH”, more than 100 employees from Molson Coors got engaged to clean up the shoreline in Verdun … under a pouring rain that never stopped! Another proof that Molson Coors employees, our greatest assets, can challenge the expected, and leave a positive beer print in our environment.

An annual September initiative along with our partner WWF-Canada, represented by Marie-Claude Lemieux in Québec.

Congrats to our amazing team for making this event a great success, and a special tribute to our “Build the Bench” team (15 employees in training) that succeeded to put in place a great connecting activity, which is so far from their day-to-day job! Cheers!

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Cheers to a wonderful group of employees who challenged the rain to make that event a great success!

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

100+ employés Molson Coors nettoient les rives de Verdun!

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Chez Molson Coors: SEPTEMBRE – Mois de gestion responsable de l’eau!

À Montréal, plus d’une centaine d’employés-es se sont rassemblés pour procéder au nettoyage des rives de Verdun dans le cadre d’une opération nationale “Grand nettoyage des rivages canadiens” mise sur pied par WWF (World Wildlife Foundation – Fonds mondial pour la nature). Au cours du mois de septembre, Molson Coors aura mis sur pied une douzaine de ces rassemblements à l’échelle du Canada, dans le but d’engager le plus grand nombre d’employés-es possible.

Nos bénévoles ont été plus que généreux et courageux … la pluie n’a jamais cessé. Si le soleil ne s’est pas montré le bout du nez, je peux vous assurer que le soleil était partout dans nos coeurs, et que l’absence de Galarneau ne nous aura pas retiré notre bonne humeur, et notre passion de préserver l’eau!

Connaissez-vous notre “équipe de la relève”? celle-ci est composée d’une quinzaine d’employés-es Molson Coors qui doivent relever plusieurs défis les sortant de leur zone de confort, et ce, tout au cours de leur année de formation. Cette fois, leur défi était de réaliser cette activité dans tous ses détails (planification, partage des tâches et responsabilités, influence auprès de partenaires, influence auprès de tous nos employés-es à participer, communication interne et externe, organisation d’un BBQ accompagné de nos excellents produits! et j’en passe!) – BRAVO, MISSION ACCOMPLIE avec le plus grand des succès. Vous avez toutes les raisons d’être fiers de votre réalisation, un objectif que vous avez largement dépassé … ci-dessous une photo de toute l’équipe!

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Sur cette dernière photo apparaissent (de G à D), Normand Houle de l’arrondissement de Verdun, Pierre Laflamme, membre de l’équipe de la relève et responsable des communications, notre fameux Panda (Sylvie Levasseur), Marie-Claude Lemieux de WWF (Fonds mondial pour la nature) ainsi que Raymond Carrier de l’opération net de la Ville de Montréal – un homme extraordinaire, toujours présent!

Merci à toute l’équipe et, surtout, n’oubliez pas ceci:

“Nous avons besoin d’une bonne eau pour brasser d’excellentes bières” – NOUS SOMMES HEUREUX D’AVOIR LAISSÉ UNE EMPREINTE POSITIVE dans notre environnement!

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup


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This September 18-26th, thousands of Canadians will take time out of their busy lives to rehabilitate their local shorelines through the removal of shoreline litter in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. This year Molson Canadian is excited to play its part as a National Sponsor, partnering with the Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada

In 2009, participants removed litter from 2,457 km of shoreline in Canada, making the GCSC Canada’s largest contributor to the International Coastal Cleanup, a global effort to remove harmful litter and aquatic debris from shorelines.

How it works:

There are two ways to get involved.  You can help cleanup by becoming a participant of an existing cleanup, OR, you can organize a cleanup by becoming a Site Coordinator.  Groups, families, companies, individuals are all welcome!

Why are we involved?  Well, we believe that good business practices include environmental stewardship, and September at Molson Coors Brewing Company is a Month of Action focused on Water.   Water is essential to the brewing process – without great water, we can’t make great beer.  More about Molson Coors Water Stewardship

There are hundreds and hundreds of cleanups organized across the country, so you’ll most likely be able to find one close to you.  Molson Coors employees will be joining the pack to help preserve and restore the beauty that Canada is.  I’ll have more details about our involvement in the coming weeks – hope to see our water (and beer!) loving friends join us :)

Have a great weekend everyone.

Cheers,

Tonia

Monday, May 10th, 2010

A Month of Action at Molson Coors Brewing Company

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Molson Coors volunteers in action – Montreal Park Clean up with 350 employees

If you flip (I mean click, haha) back over the last month on this blog, you’ll see story after story with rich photos and video covering 20+ events with employees in Canada volunteering in an initiative we call ‘Month of Action’.  One month of the year focused on volunteering and giving back in the communities where we live and do business in.

I’ve been in the community relations role at Molson Coors for about a year and half now, and I can honestly say that this month was the most inspirational (and busiest!) to date.  April Month of Action saw 1000 employees complete 3700 hours of volunteering with 34 charitable/community organizations in every province of Canada.   This is huge – in just one month, our employees completed 98% of the total hours contributed in all of 2009.  WOW.

I could list all of the organizations we spent time with during April, but just take a look back through the blog posts and the 200 + photos on flickr, and you’ll see where we were and who we helped.   I was lucky enough to get to many of the Ontario events to take photos and volunteer with the different teams = the MOST volunteering I’ve ever done, and some of the most fun I’ve ever had.

In a wrap of April Month of Action (which is a global initiative, the U.K and U.S business units were also spending their time volunteering…stay tuned for global results), we did have one final event that happened last week.  Our SouthWest sales team volunteered with Jesse’s Journey – serving lunch to those who participating in the Fundraising ‘Walk Across Canada in a Day’ for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.  Photo of the great looking team below. Cheers guys!

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Curious to know what YOU think of volunteering – do you volunteer on your personal time?  Does your company have a volunteering program that allows you to give back during work hours?  Or would you rather make a monetary donation? Is it a combination of the two?

Cheers, MolsonTonia


Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Molson Coors Volunteers “sharpen their pencils” for Heart & Stroke

It is the last week of April and the Molson Coors’ volunteers sharpen their pencils and flex their fingers to help the Heart and Stroke Foundation in local offices.  Volunteers are needed at this time of year to help out with administration tasks, such as writing out receipts for donations, data entry and counting money from school campaigns in the area.  Three groups of volunteers rose to the occasion and  were able  to cover off a morning and two afternoons at  Brampton and Toronto Heart & Stroke Offices.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation, a volunteer-based health charity, leads in eliminating heart disease and stroke and reducing their impact through: the advancement of research and its application, the promotion of healthy living, and advocacy – please see www.heartandstroke.on.ca !

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Photo L-R: Alice Lo, Brent Walker, Gary Matthews, Molson Coors; Arceli Muan, Nancy Mrazek, Sherry Willsie, Helen Gayowsky, Heart & Stroke Foundation; Jennifer Santos, Kristina Zapletal, Molson Coors

First stop of the day – Brampton Heart & Stroke office to help with year end receipts.  This group did not stop until all of the piles were gone!!

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Photo L-R: Angela Kacin, Melanie Selarno, Natalie Theodore, Laurie Clouthier, Molson Coors and Arceli Muan, Heart and Stroke Foundation

After a quick lunch I was back at the Heart and Stroke Foundation office for Group 2, small but mighty, these gals got the job done!

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Kevin McNeil’s Team

Kevin and Company traveled to the Heart and Stroke Foundation located on Yonge Street where they jumped in to help counting of cash and writing receipts out for donation submitted.

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Guys, Job well done!

Cheers, CaroleB

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Molson Coors employees in Western Canada step up for Month of Action

What an honour it was to be a part of Western Canada’s volunteering initiative for Molson Coors’ April Month of Action. On April 30th, almost 75 Molson Coors employees in 7 different cities (Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria), across 4 different provinces, volunteered their time at local Food Banks helping those in need. As a result of the thousands of pounds of food sorted and packed by Molson Coors employees,  literally thousands of people were and will be positively affected from Manitoba through to BC.

Below are some pictures and info from each city.

Hats off to everyone in Western Canada who Played Their Part in helping to make to make life a little brighter for those in need.

Lower Mainland Team volunteering at the Greater Vancouver Food Bank
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14 members of the Lower Mainland sales team volunteered their time, helping to sort 10 pallets of food which will help over 1000 needy people.

Edmonton Team volunteering at the Edmonton Food Bank
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12 employees from the Edmonton Sales Office donated 3 hours of their time to the Edmonton Food Bank, sorting 2700kgs of food, making approx 240 food hampers and cleaning the hamper line coolers.

Calgary Market Development Team volunteering at the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank
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25 employees from the West Market Development office and the Calgary Sales office sorted an amazing 32,000 lbs of food over a 3 hour period.

Saskatoon team volunteering at the Saskatoon Food Bank
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4 members of the Saskatoon Sales Team sorted an amazing 7 pallets of food in 3 hours.

Regina team volunteering at the Regina Food Bank
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7 members of the Regina Sales Team put together 224 hampers in only 3 hours.

Manitoba team volunteering at the Winnipeg Harvest Food Bank
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8 members of the Manitoba Sales Team sorted and boxed over 2700 pounds of potatoes, helping at least 270 needy families in the Winnipeg area

Victoria team volunteering at Our Place
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4 members of the Vancouver Island Sales Team spent their day serving lunch to 350 needy people at the Our Place shelter in Victoria.

Cheers!

Bryan