Our employees bring passion and purpose to their work to support our mission of improving the lives of people every day. Their commitment extends to their communities and neighbors in need, as well. This holiday season, we’re proud to celebrate the ways our employees have supported their communities through hands-on volunteering and charitable giving.
Volunteers of the year
Volunteerism is woven throughout our culture, and, in fiscal year 2025, employees collectively logged more than 63,000 hours of volunteer service.
“The stories we hear from employees about why and how they serve and who they are helping is truly inspiring,” said Jessie Cannon, president of the Cardinal Health Foundation. “On behalf of Cardinal Health and the Cardinal Health Foundation, thank you to all our volunteers. We are grateful for your commitment to serving the communities where we live and work.”
The Foundation recognizes several top volunteers, including (pictured above from left to right) Dusty Dumas, Senior Clinical Consultant, GMPD, Stonewall, Louisiana; Craig Vollmar, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Diego Armendariz, Director of Strategic Sourcing, Innovative Delivery Solutions, Katy, Texas; Cassandra Sorrell, Quality Assurance Supervisor, Nuclear Manufacturing Services, Parker, Colorado; and Shannon McIntyre, Maintenance Technician, Global Medical Products & Distribution (GMPD), Jacksonville, Texas.
Here, Diego Armendariz shares some highlights of his volunteering experience.
“I began volunteering in my community as a teenager; 30 years later, I’m still at it, supporting a variety of nonprofits in the Houston area.”
Armendariz’s volunteer activities range from coaching youth sports and fostering character development with teenagers to supporting critical disaster recovery efforts. “Through my church and another local nonprofit, I help provide donated supplies and coordinate other volunteers to support disaster relief,” he said. “One particularly meaningful experience I had involved a disaster recovery mission where a team of others and I delivered critical supplies to a flood-isolated hospital (and Cardinal Health customer) that was inaccessible to our product delivery vehicles during a natural disaster.”
Armendariz stated, “I didn't realize the full extent of my volunteerism until I began to track all the hours. But these consistent service activities can really add up and make a meaningful difference.”
Every volunteer can make a significant impact, and when we consider the collective impact of our employees’ 63,000 volunteer hours, the effect is considerable. The monetary value is nearly $2.2 million, according to Independent Sector, which values every volunteer hour at $34.79.
Team volunteerism
In addition to our individual volunteers, the Foundation also recognizes the teams at five Cardinal Health locations for their outstanding group volunteering efforts in fiscal year 2025:
Above: Our employees in our Kansas City, Missouri, distribution center build water filters to donate to communities with little or no access to clean water.
Over the past year, teams volunteered together in a variety of activities, such as building water filters for communities with little or no access to clean water, cleaning up local beaches, participating in the meal program at Ronald McDonald House, stuffing backpacks with STEM school supplies for children in need, and so much more.
GivingTuesday: A successful internal campaign
Our employees’ generosity also extends to financial support for numerous nonprofit organizations, helping to make the communities where we live and work stronger. For this week’s GivingTuesday, we honored our employees’ spirit of giving by doubling their donations to charitable organizations and tripling their donations to the Cardinal Health Employee Assistance Fund, designed to aid qualified employees in need of immediate financial assistance following an unforeseen disaster or personal hardship.
Together, our employees’ and Foundation’s single-day impact to nonprofit organizations and the Employee Assistance Fund amounted to more than $410,000.
“Our culture of giving is woven into everything we do,” said Cannon. “Whether it’s donating to a local nonprofit, supporting their colleagues after an unexpected crisis, or championing causes they care deeply about through volunteer service, our employees genuinely embody the values that guide us at Cardinal Health.”