On June 27 and 28, more than 250 employees from biopharmaceutical company AbbVie worked through the summer heat to improve the campus of Glenn L. Martin Elementary School in Santa Ana with a large-scale STEM lab for the school’s population of nearly 510 students. The project was made possible by a partnership between AbbVie and the Heart of America Foundation, an organization that works to provide quality resources and transform spaces in under-resourced schools.
“We know not every school across the country is the same,” said Jill Hardy Heath, president and CEO of the Heart of America. “Our charge is to work with amazing partners like AbbVie to make a difference.”
This week is AbbVie’s annual Week of Possibilities, an initiative that encourages AbbVie employees throughout the nation to volunteer to give back to local communities.
“Through AbbVie’s Week of Possibilities,…