Crowley Cares from the caribbean to Alaska - Make a difference day 2006
Anchorage
 Forty employees joined in a clothing drive and fundraiser to benefit two local charities. The clothing drive gathered boxes of outerwear for Anchorage Community Mental Health, which helps hundreds of mentally, challenged people ranging in age from birth to seniors. Additionally the group raised over $1,500 to benefit the area’s Paratransit Services AnchorRides program, which provides rides to low-income seniors and people with disabilities living independently in the community.
Atlanta
 Four Atlanta employees volunteered with Project Open Hand who prepares and delivers meals to disabled people throughout the city while providing dietary counseling and nutrition education programs. The organization feeds over 3,000 people a day and depends almost solely on volunteers. Most of the food recipients are battling AIDS, diabetes, heat disease or cancer or are seniors or people with disabilities.
El Salvador
 Volunteers provided personal supplies along with tables and chairs for an event benefiting a local home for abused children. Employees attended the event where they interacted with the resident children.
Houston
 The Houston team collaborated with St. Ignatius Loyola Church, to purchase and make over 175 sandwiches along with two cases of apples for Casa Juan Diego, an organization that offers food, clothing, and a safe place for refugees and immigrants. The charity has ten houses in Houston, and provides over 2,000 meals a week. The team of nine set up an assembly line of sandwich makers, baggers, and packers.
Jacksonville
 The Regency and Talleyrand locations worked together to host a fall festival benefiting 150 children either in foster homes or living in the Boys Home, Baptist Children’s Home or the Children’s Home Society. The group also raised money to purchase items for the homes’ recreation rooms. Additionally the leftover food from the festival was divided and donated to two of the homes.
Miami/Port Everglades
 The south Florida offices combined efforts and visited Seagull School and Daycare Center in Ft. Lauderdale, a facility that offers childcare while mothers attend high school. Volunteers read and played with the children and assisted the teachers. The groups also donated crayons, books, toys, arts/crafts materials and stuffed animals to the school for 35 children ages two to five, along with Crowley bags filled with juice packs, crackers, chips, a toy, book, and candy. On a subsequent day, the volunteers visited McLamore Children's Center where they played, danced, and shared personal memories with the children while serving pizza, refreshments and cake.
Pennsauken
 Thirty plus volunteers helped Cathedral Kitchen, Camden's largest soup kitchen whose mission is to feed the hungry and homeless. The kitchen feeds 7,000 needy people per month using a tiny kitchen which houses a double convection oven and a household electric stove, the sole method of preparing hundreds of meals a day. Volunteers served dinner with the help of Bishop Eustace Preparatory High School students.
San Juan
 Forty-two volunteers visited Hogar Infantil Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús in Arecibo the Asociacion de Espina Bífida in Bayamón. At Hogar Infantil Santa Teresita del Niño Jesus, the group celebrated a birthday party for all the children of the shelter and presented six emergency lights along with toys, disposable diapers, cleaning products, laundry detergent, children clothes and toiletries to the home. Each of the children received two gift bags, one containing clothes and a pair of shoes and the other with assorted candy and toys. Crowley employees, Raul Otero and Zoraida Roman, dressed up as clowns and entertained the children by making them animal-shaped balloons, playing games and face painting. At the Asociacion de Espina Bifida in Bayamon the group knocked down a cement wall allowing for parking expansion to better serve the 200 patients that receive services there.
Seattle
 Volunteers prepared and sent 39 care packages to U.S. Troops that are stationed overseas. Additionally the group volunteered at the SUGM Youth Center where they painted, assembled desks and put up shelving for the center, which serves about 500 children.
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