Starbucks Spain partners help students make the grade.
Madrid has dozens of Starbucks stores, and Starbucks partners (employees) in Spain have found a way to inspire and impact the community in significant ways through their youth tutoring program.
In fiscal 2008, Starbucks, our Madrid team and our joint venture partner Grupo Sigla, S.A., worked together with Fundación Voluntarios por Madrid on a project to help children ages five to 14 with their schoolwork.
The children invited to be part of the program were identified as having trouble in school or coming from families where they couldn’t get help at home. Store partners met on a weekly basis with these students at their schools and tutored them in whatever assignments they were working on at the time.
The program identified students and schools in the same neighborhoods as the Starbucks stores where the volunteering partners worked. This increased the value and connection of the program for partners, students, local customers and the community.
Since March 2008, partners in Madrid have contributed more than 750 hours of volunteer service.
