Community Service
Fishbowl offers community service to Provo, Orem and other local communities at least once a year. In 2009, Fishbowl donated its inventory management software to CherryCreek Elementary School in Springville, Utah to track its supplies, and Fishbowl employees helped catalog the school’s equipment, books and other resources. In 2010, Fishbowl employees landscaped the playground and other areas surrounding Provo’s House of Hope, a facility where women suffering from substance abuse come to receive assistance for themselves and their children. In 2011, Fishbowl sponsored a service project for Mountainland Head Start preschools in Utah County. Fishbowl employees went to four locations: one in American Fork, one in Springville and two in Provo to offer manual labor, including painting, landscaping and yard work. In 2012, Fishbowl employees volunteered at Barnett Elementary School in Payson, Utah. They assisted teachers and students in their classrooms, filed and organized hundreds of books based on students' learning level, repaired damaged picnic tables and wall-ball structure, and created learning kits for students.
Fishbowl has also partnered with several Utah groups and companies – which include Utah Valley University, Certiport, Think Atomic and Voonami – to create the Courage Above Mountains Foundation. The CAM Foundation provides job education and additional services to low-income mothers and other people in need. It also helps entrepreneurs find local resources to help them develop their startups. In 2012, the CAM Foundation moved into its first foreign country when it was joined by an Australian partner: Fishbowl Australia. It offered a scholarship to Australian students through its partnership with Certiport.
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