Getting Shady: Planting Trees For Arbor Day.
Sounds like some shenanigans, doesn’t it? Before you dismiss it as another excuse to go hug a tree, you should turn over a new leaf and spruce up your knowledge. The holiday’s roots originated from Nebraska. This holiday has been celebrated for over 100 years and has sprouted into an international holiday. Traditionally, Arbor day […]
Giving Back: A Volunteer’s Story With a Horse Named Flo
Our Denver based Tech Engineer, Kleyda Miller, has a passion for horses and being outdoors. Below is her experience with our Volunteer Time Off (VTO) initiative with one organization in particular. In July of this year, I went with a group of Greystone employees to volunteer at Growing Colorado Kids (GCK). This unique, grassroots organization […]
Greystone Teams Up with Growing Colorado Kids
As the person who spearheads our Volunteer Time Off (VTO) initiative, I am always looking for new volunteer opportunities for our staff. In the last year and a half since I took over this initiative, I have had great groups volunteer at Relay for Life, Urban Peak, and the Denver Rescue Mission. On top of that, many staff members […]
Greystone wins football wager for charity… again…
Game on! Football wager for charity Part II
End of Year VTO Raffle – The winners!
Greystone has a volunteer time off (VTO) initiative that gives employees up to three paid days off a year to volunteer at an non-profit of their choosing. Greystone also donates $50 to each non-profit for every day a staff member volunteered. This past year, we also had an internal, friendly “competition” going where employees would […]
Giving Back & Gaining Perspective
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” When my best friend passed away, I knew that I did everything I could to keep her as comfortable as possible throughout her last weeks of life. To her, this meant hours of devoted company, laughing endlessly, feeling special with […]
Lending a Hand at Urban Peak
One of the initiatives I love here at Greystone is volunteer time off (VTO). Staff members are given up to 3 days of leave to volunteer at organizations of their choice. It’s one of my duties to spearhead this initiative. It can be hard for some staff to take a whole day off to volunteer, […]
Broncos vs. Patriots – A football wager to benefit veterans
Giggles, Kids and Soccer Balls
When my friend asked me to help her coach her son’s U5 soccer team, I wasn’t sure I wanted to make the commitment to go to soccer practice once a week and give up part of every Saturday for a few months. Then, she told me if we didn’t coach they wouldn’t be able to […]
