DLB - Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

May, 10 2019 08:30 AM Dolby Laboratories

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) employees and community partners participate in the annual Dolby Cares Day – the company’s global volunteer effort spanning the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific between April and June. This commitment to service is part of the Dolby Cares program, combining the company’s unique intersection of art and science to inspire the next generation of innovators and address communities’ most critical needs.

Since launching in 2014, Dolby Cares has experienced exponential growth, with over 5,600 volunteer hours and $3.1M in grants and matching gifts donated in Fiscal Year 2018.

Photos captured here are of some of the volunteer events that have already happened in Wroclaw, Poland, and San Francisco, California.

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Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Doug Replogle, Staff Audio Systems Engineer, Dolby Laboratories, is an ongoing employee volunteer with 826 Valencia and during Dolby Cares Day, worked with students in crafting poems about their personal identities and helped them prepare their written work to be recorded as a podcast. Previously, he has actively implemented technology on-site at the 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center in helping design their Podcasting booths and has volunteered helping edit students podcasts. Photo Credit: James Butler

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby employees volunteered to help the San Francisco Recreation and Parks in gardening the new Civic Center Playground pulling weeds and removing excess shrubbery and trash. Photo Credit: James Butler

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

At the San Francisco Recreation and Parks new Civic Center Playground, Dolby employees cleaned playground equipment in order for children to enjoy this fun new community spot right near Dolby’s headquarters. Photo Credit: James Butler

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby is a founding partner of Code Tenderloin, an intensive job readiness program in the Tenderloin near Dolby's San Francisco headquarters. Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO, Dolby Laboratories, participated on a career building panel for Code Tenderloin clients where Dolby employees shared their work and life experiences. Employee volunteers also provided support by helping participants create and practice “elevator pitches” and a professional photographer was onsite to take shots of Code Tenderloin participants for their online professional profiles. Photo Credit: Jordan Fatke

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

In Wroclaw, Poland, Dolby Cares Day was kicked off on April 8 with more than 100 employees participating in a local river clean up and restoration project with On Water, Poland, a local Polish eco-conservation organization. Photo Credit: Maciej Mrzalik

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby Poland employees worked together on a restoration project to help clean the Odra River in Wroclaw, Poland, they removed refuse and other waste harmful to the water and the environment. Photo Credit: Maciej Mrzalik

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby employees volunteered at The Arc San Francisco whose mission is to transform the lives of adults with developmental disabilities by advancing lifelong learning, personal achievement and independence. Working together alongside the studio artists at the ARC, a community art piece was created during Dolby Cares Day. Photo Credit: Kiley Hertel

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

On May 9, more than 450 Dolby employees in partnership with 25 community organizations supported a variety of initiatives benefiting youth, the environment, and our neighbors in need across the Bay Area. Photo Credit: Virginia Becker

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Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby employees volunteered to help the San Francisco Recreation and Parks in gardening the new Civic Center Playground pulling weeds and removing excess shrubbery and trash. Photo Credit: James Butler

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

At the San Francisco Recreation and Parks new Civic Center Playground, Dolby employees cleaned playground equipment in order for children to enjoy this fun new community spot right near Dolby’s headquarters. Photo Credit: James Butler

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

In Wroclaw, Poland, Dolby Cares Day was kicked off on April 8 with more than 100 employees participating in a local river clean up and restoration project with On Water, Poland, a local Polish eco-conservation organization. Photo Credit: Maciej Mrzalik

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Dolby Poland employees worked together on a restoration project to help clean the Odra River in Wroclaw, Poland, they removed refuse and other waste harmful to the water and the environment. Photo Credit: Maciej Mrzalik

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

Hundreds of Global Dolby Laboratories Employees Engage in their Local Communities through Annual Dolby Cares Day Campaign

On May 9, more than 450 Dolby employees in partnership with 25 community organizations supported a variety of initiatives benefiting youth, the environment, and our neighbors in need across the Bay Area. Photo Credit: Virginia Becker