More Than 8,400 Lilly Employees to Participate in Massive
One-Day City Makeover May 15
Beautification projects to include record-breaking
paint-by-number mural
INDIANAPOLIS - On Thursday, May 15, more than 8,400
central Indiana Eli Lilly and Company employees -- possibly the
largest number of employees to ever participate in a corporate
volunteer initiative -- will participate in the company's
first-ever Global Day of Service, a day-long event in which
Lilly employees will unite with one common cause: to improve the
communities in which we live and work.
Who: Lilly has partnered with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and
more than 50 local community organizations including United Way
of Central Indiana, Habitat for Humanity, IPS, Indy Parks and
Boy Scouts of America. Mayor Greg Ballard also is planning to
participate along with several Lilly executives, including
Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Alex Azar.
What: Employees will paint more than a half-mile of outdoor
murals, including a 1,230-foot long wall that may create a new
Guinness Book of World Record for the largest paint-by-number
mural -- plant 2,000 trees and 6,000 other plantings, enhance 16
medians and remove 24 acres invasive plants from public areas.
Lilly employees also will build Habitat for Humanity house
frames, participate in a one-mile walk to raise funds for
Lilly's Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Partnership,
and work with 19 local schools (mostly IPS), Boy Scouts of
Greater Indianapolis and United Way of Central Indiana on other
projects benefiting our central Indiana community. A complete
media kit is available at www.lillymedia.com/lillyglobaldayofservice.
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008. Employees will work one of two,
four-hour shifts from 8 a.m.-Noon and 1-5 p.m.
Where: In addition to the U.S., more than 50 Lilly site
locations across the globe, including China, Brazil, Germany,
Italy, Canada, South Africa, Turkey and the U.K.
Paint cans and supplies will be dropped off at mural locations;
prep activity taking place.
8 a.m. - Noon
Madison Avenue Long Wall Mural (being submitted to Guinness Book
of World Records)
Location: S. Madison Ave. between Raymond and Terrace Streets
Specs: 14,500 total square feet
Monon Trail Mural
Location: Underpass on the Monon Trail between 10th and 16th
Streets
Specs: Four sections totaling 2,797 square feet
Tree Planting and Median Enhancement
Location: Harding, Kentucky and Raymond Streets surrounding
Lilly
Technology Center
Specs: 14 median enhancements; 383 trees
Construction of Habitat Home Panels
Location: Lilly Technology Center South, parking lot #110
Specs: 140 panels are being constructed for three Habitat for
Humanity
homes
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Madison Avenue Long Wall Mural
Location: S. Madison Ave. between Raymond and Terrace Streets
Who: Mayor Greg Ballard and Lilly Senior Vice President of
Corporate
Affairs, Alex Azar, will assist with painting Madison Avenue
Long Wall Mural (being submitted to Guinness Book of World
Records)
1 - 5 p.m.
Monon Trail and Madison Avenue Murals (see details above)
William Penn Elementary IPS #49
Location: 1720 W. Wilkens
Specs: 48 volunteers will work with school children to install
benches, landscaping and legacy nature projects.
Source: Eli Lilly and Company
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