Volunteering Our Time

On Global Volunteer Day, the company provides each of its employees with a half-day of paid time to participate in a volunteer project. In 2009, nearly 3,200 employees at Life Technologies donated their time to more than 146 projects at 82 global sites during the company’s sixth annual Global Volunteer Day—the first since Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems came together to form Life Technologies. 

Projects ranged from helping middle school students in East Palo Alto, California, to cleaning beach litter with the National Environment Agency in Singapore. While some employees were beautifying the grounds of The Science Factory in Eugene, Oregon, others were working in Cubbon Park to help attract visitors in Bangalore, India. The diverse tapestry of projects reflected the many personalities of Life Technologies, but was woven with a single thread: giving back.

Global Volunteer Day

Lifetech Volunteers

Global Volunteer Day is the cornerstone of the Giving Back at Life program—a day when all Life employees and their families come together to volunteer for a full day of service to their local non-profit partners.

Group Service Projects

Lifetech Volunteers

Life Technologies employees regularly volunteer in conjunction with meetings and events for team building, from sorting food and painting non-profit offices to building bikes for underprivileged kids. For information on bringing Life employees to your non-profit for a group service project, click here.

Individual Efforts

Lifetech Volunteers

In addition to group service projects on company time, the Giving Back at Life program encourages employees to take time to volunteer on their own and rewards them with incentives. In 2011, employees volunteered more than 42,000 hours for 824 different organizations.

Volunteer Drives

Lifetech Volunteers

From collecting food and donating blood to holiday toy drives and gathering science equipment for classrooms, employees embrace the spirit of giving back all year long.