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Monster Help Day is back! Today, AOL is embarking on its fourth Monster Help Day whereby over 2,000 employees will be supporting 54 volunteer projects across 21 offices worldwide. Monster Help Day, which started in honor of AOL's 25^th birthday, (we are now 28!) enables employees to step away from their busy working lives and give back to the communities around them.

Employees will engage in a variety of different service activities including Hurricane Sandy Disaster response cleanup, painting wall-sized canvases for hospitals and even reading to elementary school children in underserved schools to promote early literacy. The day of service AOLers are doing will total roughly 10,000 hours of community service.

One of our core values at AOL is that we are in the business of helping people, period. And although AOL employees demonstrate this value each and every day, they take it one step further on Monster Help Day.

The charities are in the communities in which our offices are located, as well as near and dear to our employees' hearts. Visit the Monster Help Day website to learn more about AOL's Monster Help Day and the charities we are working with.

AOL celebrates our 28th birthday with the fourth #MonsterHelpDay aol.it/12y0Vss

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) May 16, 2013

A team of 17 AOLers took part in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night walk in New York last week, raising nearly $5,000 to fund research and support for people battling cancer.

During this event, which takes place each fall in more than 200 communities across North America, friends, families and co-workers form fundraising teams to participate in inspirational evening walks. Participants carry illuminated balloons - white for survivors, red for supporters and gold in memory of loved ones lost to cancer - to symbolize caring communities bringing light to the dark world of cancer. The team's three-mile walk took place along the East River.

An important part of AOL is about giving back to the community. Find out more about our social responsibility program by following this link.

If you would like to contribute to AOL's New York team effort you may do so on its team page.

New York AOLers 'Light the Night' aol.it/Tx0FHT

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) October 10, 2012