For Take a Break Company Coordinators

1. Participants must be part of a team, and you’ll need a team code to sign up. You can get your team code from Darrin Dressler (ddressler@marc.org) or Joan Steurer (jsteurer@marc.org). 
2. We encourage you to provide additional incentives for participants on your team, such as special awards for the most points earned or the most miles saved. Be creative!
3. If you are part of a large organization, you can start more than one team to encourage friendly competition at your workplace. Will the information technology department be able to save more miles than finance? Find out!
4. If you have co-workers who do not use the Internet, they can participate by completing a paper form. Please collect the forms and submit them weekly by noon the following Monday to:

   ATTN: Joan Steurer
   600 Broadway, Suite 200
   Kansas City, MO 64105

   Or fax to: (816) 421-7758

5. You may add your team at any time. If you add your team mid-month, the point requirement for entry into the monthly drawing will be pro-rated for the entire team.
6. Incorporate Take a Break reminders into other environmental information you send out to your employees.
7. Keep employees informed of their team’s results so they stay motivated.
8. Explain to participants why the program is important: cleaner air for the region, less traffic congestion and gas-cost savings.

Resources:

• Poster/flyer
• Take a Break FAQs
• Log sheet for employees without Internet access
• Take a Break logo
• Sample AirQ invite for intranet or e-mail
• Sample RideShare invite for intranet or e-mail

 

Take a Break Info

• Login
• Guidelines/Rules
• Instructions
• FAQs
• Info for Coordinators
• Prizes
• Background

Emissions Savings

Since the Take a Break program started, participants have reduced the amount of carbon dioxide entering our air by 212 tons! Learn more

Who's Taking a Break?

UMB; Commerce Bank; City of Kansas City, Mo.; Hallmark; Mid-America Regional Council; Shook Hardy Bacon; Embarq; Johnson County; Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce; Missouri Department of Transportation; Commercial Lithographing; Social Security Administration; State Street; Garmin International; Terracon; Kansas City Area Transportation Authority; Coffeyville Resources; and DLR Group

Costly Commute

The average commuter who drives 20 miles round trip to work or school each day spends more than $2,000 a year on those trips. Discover how much you spend to drive alone by filling out the Cost of Driving Calculator.