Sittercity Serves

Sittercity employees Brandon Worth and Noreen Stegemann volunteer weekly at Schiller Elementary through Open Books. Recently, the 5th grade kids had a special request for Open Books - they wanted a garden at their school. Continue reading ‘Sittercity helps put the ‘Green’ back in Cabrini Green’

We had a great time at the Sittercity.com and Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ Sake and raised $5,000. Here are some photos from the event: Continue reading ‘Sittercity.com and Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ Sake Event’

To help further the mission of helping children reach their potential by pairing them with mentors, we here at Sittercity are opening our hearts and wallets with our first Big Brother Big Sisters Bowl for Kids Sake event — and we’d LOVE to see you there too. Continue reading ‘Sittercity Bowl for Kids Sake’

Sittercity employee Melissa Underwood volunteers monthly at Cornerstone Community Outreach (CCO). Continue reading ‘Cornerstone Community Outreach’

Noreen playing word scramble with her reading buddy at Schiller Elementary

Genevieve, Dan, Erin and Ebony lent a hand and helped Open Books move over 100,000 books from storage units into a warehouse across town. Continue reading ‘Genevieve and Dan help Open Books move’

When Sittercity CEO Genevieve Thiers and COO Dan Ratner got married last October, they asked their guests to make charitable contributions to Open Books. Continue reading ‘New Computer Lab for Open Books’

Courtney Oliver of Olympia, WA may only be 10 years old, but she already has completed the necessary coursework to become a veterinary assistant. Continue reading ‘Sittercity Gives $10,000 Scholarship to Courtney Oliver on The Ellen DeGeneres Show’

As a babysitter by nature (I’ve been sitting since the age of 8 and have clocked more than 2500 babysitting jobs in my life!) I have found that whenever I am working with kids, I naturally want to mentor them and help them to their highest potential. After I started Sittercity, I found that it left me with very little time to babysit, which is what I loved. That’s where Big Brothers Big Sisters stepped in and helped me to continue mentoring, even if I had no time to babysit! If you don’t know about Big Brothers Big Sisters, you should.
Continue reading ‘Big Brothers Big Sisters’

Brad, VP of Operations at Sittercity helped out at Robinson Elementary with the students’ Biology unit. The class was studying animal adaptations. Brad brought in Leopard Geckos, an Eastern Milk Snake and a Tangerine Honduran Milk Snake to demonstrate how adaptations allow animals to survive in the wild.
Continue reading ‘Biology Lesson @ Robinson Elementary’