May 6, 2010-Cherry Hill, NJ-Longtime Destination ImagiNation (DI) volunteer Simon Dodd has been awarded the Volunteer of the Year award from his employer Lexmark. In his honor, Lexmark will make a $2,500 donation to the Kentucky Destination ImagiNation affiliate.
Dodd has been a DI volunteer for more than 17 years for the Kentucky Affiliate. He was a charter member of the first global Alumni Council for DI and a co-developer of a now hugely popular and edgy competition called DI eXtreme®, which was designed specifically to engage high school and college-aged participants.
“Simon has been an invaluable volunteer within Kentucky by striving to give every child the opportunity to participate,” said Rusty McCarty, COO and Creative Director for Destination ImagiNation, Inc. “Simon is an instrumental and devoted volunteer, and he sets the standard for the more than 35,000 volunteers that our organization maintains annually.”
The Volunteer of the Year Award is designed to encourage volunteerism among Lexmark employees worldwide as part of the company’s commitment to corporate citizenship. Each year, one employee is selected from nominees worldwide to receive this award.
About Destination ImagiNation, Inc.
Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is an extraordinary non-profit organization that provides two educational programs for students to learn and experience creativity, teamwork and problem solving. Every year, we reach 100,000 students across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries. Destination ImagiNation, our core program, is an exhilarating educational program, offered primarily in after-school settings, in which students work in teams to solve mind-bending Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments. In our Destination ImagiNation 4-Life program, we design and implement cause-based programming for client organizations to reach target audiences in a powerful way. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with more than 1.3 million alumni and a global network of 35,000 volunteers. Visit http://www.IDODI.org for more information.
