Community Involvement
Baird Cares
Baird has a long tradition of giving back to the communities in which our associates live and work. Many Baird associates team up during Baird Gives Back Week, an event held annually in the spring, to help with projects such as preparing and serving food, tutoring students, working with seniors, building homes, and cleaning up parks. Baird supports and recognizes associates' passion for giving in various ways, including:
- "Baird Cares" provides associates with an extra paid day off each year to volunteer in their communities.
- Baird Foundation's Charitable Gift Matching Program matches a portion of Baird associates' nonprofit contributions.
- The Brenton H. Rupple Citizenship Award, named for a former Baird chairman, is presented annually to an associate who makes outstanding contributions to civic, charitable and academic organizations.
Community Engagement
St. Martin De Porres
Cleveland's Cristo Rey High School. Saint Martin de Porres is a Catholic, co-educational high school located in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood of Cleveland. As a member of the national Cristo Rey Network of schools, Saint Martin partners with over 120 local organizations that are committed to educating our students through the Corporate Work Study Program. Students earn 1,600 hours of real-world work experience by graduation and earn nearly 80% of the cost of their own education.
Combining a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with professional work experience, Saint Martin provides a caring, safe environment dedicated to helping students become college ready, career prepared, and ready for life!
Recovery Resources
Helping people triumph over mental illness, alcoholism, drug, and other addictions.
St. Albert the Great Catholic School
St. Albert the Great has a proud tradition for over 50 years of promoting academic excellence, strong moral values, and service to the Church and community. The mission at St. Albert the Great School is to partner with families to educate each child to know, believe and live the Catholic faith, and to continue life-long learning.
St. Augustine Health Ministries
St. Augustine Health Ministries is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing a continuum of health care, housing and community services primarily to the chronically ill and aging of our community.
Pelotonia
Pelotonia is driven by their mission: to engage, inspire, and challenge a community committed to change the world by accelerating innovative cancer research.
Boy Scouts of America
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
Tri-Motor Heritage Foundation
Devoted to perpetuating America's aviation heritage through building, preserving and maintaining a flying 1929 Ford Tri-Motor aircraft.
Bay Rockets Association
The Bay Rockets Association believes in the life-changing power of sports. Sports teach grit, resiliance, teamwork, and - most importantly - sports teach young adults how to overcome failure with hard work, creating a growth mindset that will benefit them long after the final buzzer sounds. Since 1999, the Bay Rockets Association has granted more than $600,000 to Bay teams for facilities, equipment, training, and events.
Walsh Jesuit High School
Walsh Jesuit, a Catholic, college preparatory high school in the spirit of St. Ignatius Loyola, reaches beyond academic excellence to develop competence, conscience, and compassion within its graduates. As a Christ-centered community we value inclusion and strive to be men and women for and with others. For over 50 years, as a Catholic, Jesuit High School, Walsh Jesuit has been committed to academic excellence, spiritual growth, and cura personalis (care for the whole person) as their students grow within the community each day.
Westlake Bay Village Rotary
Westlake Bay Village Rotary helps enrich our community by donating funds to organizations that make a difference. Some of the organizations include Providence House, Footpath Foundation, S.T.A.R., Lake Erie Nature and Science Center, William Corley Foundation and Connecting for Kids.