120 Employees of Millward Brown volunteered to help create a Community Garden to be enjoyed by residents of Marina Village.  The overwhelming feeling of the volunteers was that helping out in the community is a really rewarding experience.  Volunteers found the experience to be completely different than their day to day activities at the global marketing firm.  The employees were polled and they found that community engagement was top on the list of opportunities important to the company.  Thanks to the collaboration of United Way, Bridgeport Community Land Trust and volunteers from Millward Brown,  a plot of overgrown land was turned into a community garden consisting of 30 individual garden plots.  Volunteers worked on the project over a 3 day period.  At the end of the 3rd day, all 30 plots were claimed by residents of the neighborhood.  The vegetables grown in four of the plots would be donated to a local food bank.  The residents who came out to claim a garden were thrilled to think that the generosity of others would allow them to have a garden of their own.  One resident was so grateful that she would now be able to teach her grandsons to learn to garden.  The project supports United Way's Health Initiative and the goal of the Bridgeport Community Land Trust to help residents of urban areas to have access to healthy foods. 

To here Mike Bellamy from Coffee Break Chat interview Simon Moody, Executive Vice President of Millward Brown about this great volunteer opportunity, Click Here