Cabot® Creamery Cooperative Announces September Reward Volunteers 5.0 Winners

CABOT, Vt., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Cabot Creamery Cooperative, the farm family owned dairy cooperative widely known as the makers of the "World's Best Cheddar," is once again announcing the winners of another round of the Reward Volunteers program. Throughout the month, hundreds of Americans logged their volunteer hours - nearly 6,000 in all – spent helping children, animals, military, parks and other organizations. In just one month, one lucky Reward Volunteers participant will be honored with an all-expense-paid Eastern Caribbean Cruise, as part of the Cabot Community Celebrity Award Cruise.

The Reward Volunteers iPhone App and web widget from Cabot Creamery Cooperative enables individuals and organizations to track the time they spend volunteering in their communities, post to Facebook, and earn rewards for themselves and the organizations they serve. At the end of each month, Cabot rewards volunteers for their hard work, and for inspiring friends and family to do the same, with a variety of prizes. The more hours volunteers log, the more chances to win. Participation is absolutely free, and more information is available at www.rewardvolunteers.coop.

"We're just one month away from announcing the winner of the biggest prize of Reward Volunteers 5.0," says Jen Neary, Director of Marketing Integrated Services for Cabot. "One altruistic individual and a guest will receive the trip of a lifetime - a seven-night, all-expense-paid cruise to the Caribbean, which will set sail in November of 2015. Cabot's farm family owners are deeply committed to volunteerism, and Reward Volunteers is our way of recognizing and rewarding those who give back to their communities."

The selection process for Rewards Volunteers prizes is random, but the more volunteer hours a user logs and the more they share their volunteer activity with their friends on Facebook, the more chances they have of winning.

The Reward Volunteers cruise winner and a guest will join other volunteers including honorees selected by Points of Light and AARP Create The Good from around the country as part of Cabot's Community Celebrity Award Cruise. The Community Celebrity Award program was created in 2009, and is presented to volunteers from across the country who continue to make a difference in their community. It spotlights those who serve others with little to no thought or regard for personal recognition, and rewards them with the trip of a lifetime. More information is available at www.cabotcelebritycruise.coop.

Reward Volunteers launched in February of 2012. Since then, the program has grown every month, and given away thousands of dollars in cash and prizes to deserving volunteers and volunteer organizations. Reward Volunteers 5.0, the fifth iteration of the revolutionary iPhone app and web widget, has already seen more than 8,500 acts of kindness, generosity, and community support - totaling more than 42,500 hours - logged by individuals in service of non-profit organizations across the country.

One of this month's Reward Volunteers winners is Moira Glavan, a volunteer at USO of Wisconsin. "Being a volunteer with the USO of Wisconsin, I have been blessed to welcome our troops home from their 11 month deployment to Kuwait, raise funds for our troops at festivals and also at a hydration drive to collect bottled water for our troops. I have been given such a wonderful opportunity to be recognized by the Reward Volunteers program so other people can appreciate just how wonderful it is to be a major part in supporting our brave young men and women serving in our military, protecting our daily freedoms."

The prize list has grown for Reward Volunteers 5.0, and includes:

• $8,000 in cash prizes for non-profit organizations
• Farm vacations to Liberty Hill Farm, Sprout Creek Farm, Emergo Farm, Escobars Inn, Couture's Bed & Breakfast, Mountain View Inn
• Killington Resort Golf and Stay Package
• Wine Weekend Getaway at The Red Clover Inn
• A Year's Supply of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
• Gift cards courtesy of King Arthur Flour, Dakin Farm
• Custom Painted Cabot Snowboards
• Green Mountain Coffee Keurig Machines
• Giant Transend EX Bicycle from The Bike Cooperative
• Cabot Cheddar Gift Packs
• Cloumage Chef Pack from Shy Brothers Farm
• Dansko Shoes
• Thorncrest Milk House Chocolates
• Neighborly Farms Gift Pack
• Hager's Farm Market Gift Box
• Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery Gift Box
• Wheeler Woven Scarves ...and much more!

For a complete list of Reward Volunteers 5.0 prizes and prize winners, visit rewardvolunteers.coop/prizes.php.

Reward Volunteers was conceived and created by Cabot Creamery Cooperative, and is sponsored by AARP Create the Good, All for Good, Marriott, Co+op Stronger Together, Hope for Women, Points of Light, and Volunteer Spot.

LATEST PRIZE WINNERS

$500 to a Non-Profit Organization
Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary - GA

Hagar Farm Gift Box
Elise S., PA - Beginnings

Dakin Farm $50 Gift Card
Barbara W., CA – Quilting to Honor & Comfort Those Touched by War

Positively Ageless & a Healthy Cookbook by $25 Cabot Gift Pack

Sprout Creek Farm Wine & Cheese
Deanna M., NY – Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue

$100 King Arthur Flour Gift Card
Gayla S., NH – Grafton County Senior Citizens Council
Steve B., VT – Ronald McDonald House Charities Burlington Vermont

Dansko Shoes
Kay T., SC – Brookgreen Gardens

Sending Milk by Skye Chalmers & 1lb Beecher's Dutch Hollow Dulcet
Brendon S., WI – USO of Wisconsin
Susan D., IL – USO of Missouri
Moira G., WI – USO of Wisconsin

$200 Gardeners Supply Gift Card
Tracy C., KY – Gallatin County Lower Elementary PTSO

Corporate Sustainability by Mark McElroy & Ledge Haven Maple Syrup

Cabot Snowboard
Joe I., SC – Brookgreen Gardens

Liberty Hill Farm Vacation
Carol O., NY – 9/11 Tribute Center

A complete list of the organizations benefiting from the Reward Volunteers can be accessed at: http://www.cabotcheese.coop/orgs.html

ABOUT CABOT CREAMERY COOPERATIVE
Cabot Creamery Cooperative has been in continuous operation in Vermont since 1919, and makes a full line of cheeses, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese and butter. Widely known as makers of "The World's Best Cheddar," Cabot is owned by the 1200 dairy farm families of Agri-Mark, the Northeast's premier dairy cooperative, with farms located throughout New England and upstate New York. For more information on Cabot, visit: http://www.cabotcheese.coop.

Cabot Creamery Cooperative is the world's first cheese maker and dairy cooperative to achieve B Corporation Certification, a validation of its attention to environmental and social impacts on stakeholders.

Contact: Bob Schiers
1.888.214.9444 or [email protected]

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