SAP Gives Back to the Community

At the , we have a large number of old photos and documents from the community, and are slowly bringing it all into the digital age by scanning each item. Our partner in this task has been one of our community businesses .  

SAP is an international information systems company headquartered in Germany, and its operating subsidiary, SAP America, is based in Newtown Square.  SAP America oversees all business operations in North America, with about 12,500 employees in North America, more than 2,000 employees in Newtown Square and more than 10,000 total employees in the U.S.

SAP has a wonderful annual community outreach program, in which they make available volunteers to local communities to give a morning, or an afternoon, or a full day, to projects needed in the community. The individual employees choose the project that strikes their fancy, and show up on location on the appointed day to help with the task.  

The Historical Society has been fortunate in the last two years to have benefited from this community outreach program. Several of us spent a recent morning with SAP volunteers, scanning our photos and documents to preserve them, and ultimately to make them available to the community and to those who may wish to research local history, personalities and places.  The first step is the tedious one of individually scanning each item.

We took a big bite out of the project that morning, with the help of our volunteers from the Global Facilities Management organization of SAP. Thanks to SAP corporate for sponsoring this program, and to Mike Simons, Hunter Hannig, Jim Dodd, Karen Hunsberger, Elaine Hartunian and Dave Broomall who turned out to help us scan and sort this morning.  And thanks as well to our Society volunteers, Chris Driscoll, John Battista, Jim Kisela, and Doug Humes, for their work on the project as well.  Slowly but surely, we are moving to a searchable online digital archive of the history of Newtown Square.