Many Bostonians gathered with their workplaces and completed the Ice Bucket Challenge this month. What better way to raise awareness for a good cause, bond with your co-workers, and seize the chance to get out of the office?
If we missed your workplace and you want to be included, let us know.
And of course, continue donating to the ALS cause.
We begin with yours truly. On Aug. 7, loaded with orange and blue buckets, the Boston.com staff headed to Copley Square, where other Bostonians joined in on dumping ice on our heads. We challenged New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (ahem, who have yet to respond).
The Boston Police Department doused themselves on Aug. 5.
Challenged by their CEO Rob Hale, Jr., employees at Granite Telecommunications, and over 1,200 people took part on Aug. 18 at their company headquarters. Hale pledged to donate $100 for every staff member who took the challenge, and the company announced it has donated $200,000 to ALS charities.
TripAdvisor's CEO, 150 employees, and mascot Ollie the owl completed the challenge in Newton, Mass. The company is donating $100 for every employee who participates.
Uber Boston completed the challenge on a boat on Boston Harbor.
The New England Patriots and the team's owner Robert Kraft did the Ice Bucket Challenge after a training camp practice on Aug. 12.
Advertising agency AMP Agency completed the challenge on a rooftop and challenged Digitas.
Digital marketing firm Digitas, which has many branches but is based in Boston, took up the challenge.
Slalom Consulting in Boston followed suit as well.
Entities 0 Name: Digitas Count: 2 1 Name: Boston Count: 2 2 Name: New England Patriots Count: 1 3 Name: Chicago Count: 1 4 Name: Boston Police Department Count: 1 5 Name: Granite Telecommunications Count: 1 6 Name: AMP Agency Count: 1 7 Name: Digital Count: 1 8 Name: Rob Hale Count: 1 9 Name: Jr. Count: 1 10 Name: Boston.com Count: 1 11 Name: Los Angeles Count: 1 12 Name: Hale Count: 1 13 Name: Slalom Consulting Count: 1 14 Name: TripAdvisor Count: 1 15 Name: Ollie Count: 1 16 Name: Copley Square Count: 1 17 Name: Boston Harbor Count: 1 18 Name: Mass. Count: 1 19 Name: Uber Boston Count: 1 20 Name: Newton Count: 1 21 Name: New York Count: 1 22 Name: Robert Kraft Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/VzKQn2 Title: Ideas For Charities That Missed Out On The 'Ice Bucket Challenge' Description: The bizarreness of the 'ice bucket challenge' is well-summarized by the skeptical child in this photoshop asking why people are wasting clean water to avoid giving money to charity, and also by Arielle Pardes at Vice. "It's like a game of Would-You-Rather involving the entire internet where, appallingly, most Americans would rather dump ice water on their head than donate to charity," writes Pardes.