Community Involvement
DRC takes an active interest in our community through charitable contributions and involvement in community organizations and events. Full-time, regular employees are eligible for up to 8 hours paid community leave following one year of service. After two years of service, employees are eligible for up to 16 hours of paid leave per year. Employees may use their time volunteering with schools, community projects, and world service organizations.

Cedar Lake Park Planting
On a beautiful late spring morning in June, a
veteran team of DRC employees volunteered their
time to plant native wild flowers at the Cedar Lake Park prairie. The team planted over 1,000 native plants
including Rough blazing star, Purple coneflower, and
Prairie smoke. This is the eighth year that DRC employees have used their community service time to create a healthy, sustainable, and beautiful prairie in the heart of Minneapolis, MN.

Get in Gear Names Team DRC 2007
Corporate Team of the Year
Get in Gear, a Minneapolis based non-profit organization, recently recognized Data Recognition Corporation (DRC)
for their involvement in the 2007 Get in Gear program.
With 46 race participants and a successful food drive resulting in a donation of 1,277 pounds of food and $2,072 for the Second Harvest Heartland food drive, “TEAM DRC” was named Corporate Team of the Year for 2007.

DRC Continues to Support Twin Cities
Public Television
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), a non-profit
educational, civic and cultural resource, presents original productions for national and state broadcast as well as brings important outreach and literacy programs to local schools and community groups. DRC has been a strong supporter and contributor to local public television and
radio for many years.

DRC Sponsors Family Reading Night at
Bruce F. Vento Elementary
As the 2007 school year closed at Bruce F. Vento Elementary in St. Paul, MN, DRC surprised the students
and faculty by sponsoring an all-school event.
On Thursday, May 24th a group of DRC volunteers, including DRC’s CEO and President, Susan Engeleiter,
came together to serve pizza, juice boxes, and an assortment of cookies to over 150 students and
their families.

DRC Supports Our Troops
Jack Gillespie, a DRC Document Services sales rep, is currently stationed in Iraq with a medical unit. When
asked what we could send his battalion over the winter holidays, Jack asked if DRC would be willing to send toys for the Iraqi children in addition to medical supplies such
as aspirin, Advil, and other commonly used over-the-counter medication.

DRC Sponsors Alabama's
Teacher of the Year Event
Pamela Harman, a high school geology teacher from the Hoover City school district was named the 2007-08 Alabama Teacher of the Year this week at a DRC
sponsored reception in Montgomery.