Aeroplan’s New Eco-friendly Rewards

Aeroplan has partnered with Green4Good®, helping to minimize the global environmental impact of Information Technology by offering our members quality tested and warranted refurbished IT equipment. Aeroplan will be introducing in their Eco-friendly category, new rewards from Green4Good® on aeroplan.com and members will be able to redeem their Aeroplan Miles for rewards such as refurbished laptops and monitors starting at 12,500 Aeroplan Miles.  In the coming months, Aeroplan will continue to support Green4Good® by adding more rewards to the program. The Green4Good® program offers Canadian enterprises an effective way to solve end-of-first-life IT asset disposition challenges, while donating cash and new technology to charity. All products are tested, audited and have a three pass government approved wipe to remove all the data.  Any product purchased from Green4Good® comes complete with a minimum of a years support (toll free, 9am -9pm E.T.,364 days a year) from Green4Good® as well as fully authentic licensing with all it’s support benefits from Microsoft®. To date, more than 166,000 computers have been diverted from Landfill and proceeds from sales have aided over 33 charities and have earned Green4Good® North American Environmental Partner of the Year awards from Microsoft®, Eco Systems Preservation Award from Hewlett Packard®, Greenest Business Finalist (Green Toronto Awards) and many more.  Click here to view a great video on how Green4Good® works. Aeroplan is very pleased to be at the forefront of bringing socially and environmentally responsible offerings to our members through our new and exciting Eco-friendly rewards, with initiatives like Green4Good®, we can help prove that doing the right thing for the environment doesn’t sacrifice quality but can also save you money! For more information about Green4Good, visit: www.green4good.ca.

Aeroplan Tangerine Community Days

Twice a year, Aeroplan organizes Tangerine Community Days providing time for employees to donate four hours of their paid work time to a charitable organization of their choice.

Aeroplan also encourages participation in this initiative by organizing group activities such as: planting trees, wrapping presents, preparing food hampers for families in need and serving food at local shelters. This winter, the Aeroplan Tangerine Community Days were dedicated to helping those in need. Here are a few things we did in our respective Communities across the country:

More than 20 employees from the Bay Street office in Toronto got together at the Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre to create gift baskets containing toys, books and food coupons, to help over 400 families in need.

The Marketing Team in Montreal worked on various initiatives.  The entire marketing team “adopted” a family; this initiative supports a family during a tough time. The team raised money to buy toys and grocery store gift cards and non-perishable food! The family was also in need of a computer, so the team was able to purchase a laptop for the family.  It’s something the marketing team has done for the last three years and we’re all very proud of this initiative.
 Other employees in the Marketing team volunteered their time at the NDG Food Bank in Notre de Dame de Grâce a suburb of Montreal. The NDG Food Bank is a non-profit organization that has been serving the community since 1986. They helped the NDG Food Bank sort through tons of food.

Another great initiative that some of our Marketing employees took part in was gift wrapping.  The Auxiliary of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Gift Wrap fundraiser organizes volunteers to assist shoppers wrap their gifts – all proceeds go directly to purchase medical equipment for the MCH. For the second year in a row, Aeroplan was set up under the Simon’s department store.

 The People & Culture and Communications Teams worked at the YMCA in Notre de Dame de Grâce on Friday, December 7^th where they wrapped gifts for the kids and volunteers.  They also sorted out children’s books for the library/CPE.

Our Contact Centre teams in Montreal and Vancouver did various activities including volunteering at food banks, the Salvation Army and at the SPCA, in addition many participated in various initiatives organized by their religious communities.

Tangerine Community Days are very important to all of us at Aeroplan and we’re happy to help those less fortunate around the holidays and throughout the year!

Make Your Donation Count! Double your Mile Donation on September 21st

As part of the 2012 Aeroplan Match Days, Aeroplan will match all donated Miles to War Child on September 21^st, on a 1 for 1 basis up to 500,000 Aeroplan Miles. Whether used to visit schools that are being rebuilt in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, War Child’s programs that help lift families out of poverty in Afghanistan, or children who are learning about their rights in Uganda, these miles go a long way to supporting children and their families in some of the most devastated regions around the world. “We have been overwhelmed by the generosity our members have shown during our Mile Matching Days over the last couple of years,” said geneviève bich, Vice President, People and Culture in Canada, Aimia. “In 2011, a total of more than 10.9 million miles were donated to our Beyond Miles partners on Miles Matching Days. We hope our members continue to support the incredible work our charitable partners do each and every day and donate miles to them.”Since the program was launched in 2006, more than 237 million Aeroplan Miles have been donated by members and on September 21^st, War Child supporters will have the opportunity to double their mile donations, and investment for a world where no child knows war. For more information about Aeroplan, please visit www.aeroplan.com or www.aimia.com DONATE TODAY!