Mayor Kevin Johnson Proclaims Sept. 19 ‘EY Connect Day’ in Sacramento as Ernst & Young LLP Employees Volunteer Throughout City

Mayor Kevin Johnson issued a proclamation recognizing this past Friday as ‘EY Connect Day’ in Sacramento as more than 75 EY professionals left their laptops at the office to volunteer throughout the community. It’s all part of ‘EY Connect Day’ which gives employees nationwide time off so that they might give back to their communities.

Left to right: On Ernst & Young LLP's annual EY Connect Day, Gina Moore, Natalia Hailen, CJ Obmann (Ernst & Young LLP Managing Partner for the Sacramento office), Angela Basi, and Ray Loyd proudly display Mayor Kevin Johnson's EY Connect Day proclamation while volunteering at the Placer Food Bank. (Photo: Business Wire)

“Our flexible culture allows our people to volunteer throughout the year, but on EY Connect Day our people come together across the country on the same day to strengthen our firm and our communities,” said CJ Obmann, Ernst & Young LLP Managing Partner for Sacramento. “Spending a day together in service to others helps create a foundation for high performing teams, and gives us a way to connect, to communicate and to work together toward a shared purpose: to build a better working world.”

EY Connect Day projects in Sacramento this year included Habitat for Humanity and the Placer County Food Bank. Each year, Ernst & Young LLP professionals throughout the West Coast volunteer more than 19,000 hours of their time to nonprofit organizations in their communities.

About the Sacramento office of Ernst & Young LLP

In Sacramento, Ernst & Young LLP has more than 80 people who serve a diverse client base of innovative, high-growth companies as well as the region's most established businesses. Our focus on supporting companies as they grow is reflected in our leading market share: in the Sacramento area, we audit more companies on the 2013 Russell 3000 than any other firm. Since the Sacramento office first opened in 1954, EY professionals have served the technology, life sciences, health care, manufacturing, retail and consumer products, telecommunications and real estate, hospitality & construction industry sectors. The firm celebrates the successes of Northern California’s entrepreneurs through its EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program, founded in 1986. #EY, #EYConnectDay #Betterworkingworld

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