CLEVELAND, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 1,000 Forest City associates nationwide will trade in their computers and office supplies on Friday, June 17, for work gloves, paint brushes and shovels during the company's Eighth Annual Community Day.
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Community Day is a day of service that brings Forest City associates from across the country together to provide much-needed help to more than 60 charitable organizations nationwide. Associates volunteer to perform duties such as landscaping, serving food to the elderly, painting, cleaning up environments, planting flowers and gathering kids' school supplies.
In the Cleveland area, Forest City associates will be lending a helping hand to organizations such as St. Herman's House of Hospitality and Shoes and Clothes for Kids. David LaRue, Forest City's new president and CEO, will roll up his sleeves and complete his day of service at Bellefaire JCB, a nonprofit agency providing services for children and their families.
Allan Krulak, vice president - director of community affairs, said, "Community Day is fun, productive and very important to us. Giving back to the communities in which we work and live is a testament to the company's core values of Community Involvement and Teamwork."
Initiated in 2004, Community Day was created to provide associates with a paid day to share their time and skills with local community organizations that they care about and to exhibit the Company's core value of community involvement. Associates in each city select the charity or charities they think need help.
Chuck Ratner, Forest City's chairman of the board, said, "We truly value being good citizens in all of our communities, and that is evidenced by all of the time and hard work that our associates put forth to make this day possible."
Forest City Enterprises, Inc., (NYSE:FCEA and FCEB) is an NYSE-listed national real estate company with $11.5 billion in total assets. The Company is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate and land throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.forestcity.net.
SOURCE Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
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