Several local volunteers worked in teams as part of Clean the Ferndale Up, a community cleanup event initiated by the Ferndale Community Foundation to clean, repair and improve public spaces that have been neglected, vandalized or misused within Ferndale.
Ferndale Community Foundation board member Matthew Nowaczok came up with the event and led the planning efforts saying that the community's response was overwhelming and it will likely become an annual event.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.