Timberland's longstanding commitment to community took on greater intensity in 1989 with a donation of 50 pairs of boots to City Year, a fledging youth service corps in Boston. Inspired by the diverse young leader's passion and idealism, the partnership between Timberland and City Year – a model for the national youth service program, Americorps – has expanded to 13 regions across the country and a pilot program in South Africa.

City Year's 13th domestic site and only rural corps is based in Timberland's global headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire and further evolves the integration of this unique public private partnership. Timberland's commitment to City Year includes over $10 million of resources, strategic management collaboration, mentorship programs between employees and corps, an annual donation of over 15,000 pieces of apparel, gear and footwear as official uniform sponsor and thousands of hours of service in communities around the world.

City Year inspired and supports Timberland's award-winning Path of Service program. The Path of Service gives employees 40 hours of paid time to invest in their community through service. To date, employees have logged over 200,000 hours of service through individual volunteer or team efforts, the 6-month Service Sabbatical program, Earth Day in the United States and Asia and the Annual Global Serv-a-palooza. Serv-a-palooza ‘02 will unite close to 2,000 employees in service in 19 countries around the world.

City Year and Timberland share a passion for the ethic of service and in the belief that everyone has the opportunity and obligation to contribute to the strength and vitality of their community. As Timberland has a longstanding commitment to support the young leaders of City Year in creative and powerful ways.

For more information, contact Carolyn Casey, Director of Social Enterprise at Timberland
at (603) 772-9500.

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