Chegg Employees Assist Community at Family Harvest Days

Chegg for Good is a social service and charitable offshoot of the popular online textbook rental and sales company Chegg in California. The company regularly sets aside paid workdays for its employees to volunteer in their communities. Chegg staff members recently worked with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to distribute food during one of the organization’s Family Harvest Days in San Jose.

Family Harvest Days offer both high-quality food and educational programming to low-income families with children under 18. Volunteers at the events assist with set-up and food distribution, sign up new participants in the Second Harvest program, and help attendees carry food to their vehicles.

The Chegg employees were eager to unload and distribute the fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and vegetables, frozen turkeys, eggs, and milk that would make a big difference in the lives of San Jose children. Second Harvest clients joined in and helped out as volunteers before receiving their own much-needed supplies. Without the services of Second Harvest, many children and teens from food-insecure households would have few nutritious meals at home.

Rick Bolander, the managing director of Redwood City-based Gabriel Venture Partners, holds a board seat at Chegg and other corporations that have benefited from his entrepreneurial expertise.