E-News: Issue 8

LEAVING YOUR COMFORT ZONE Week 4 VIDEO OTD ESCAPE THE ROOM As the week comes to an end, it’s How would our virtual meetings playout in person? Longing for an escape while you’re stuck at home? Well Trap time to celebrate successfully Find out by watching this hilarious video! Door Escape Room has transformed their heart-racing, in-person completing 4 weeks of WFH! escape rooms into digital experiences that you can decipher from Amazing find, Karen Brambani! You’ve managed to navigate wherever you’re hunkered down! Click photo to learn more. uncharted territories, like zoom meetings, and are now pros EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION participating in virtual trainings, town halls, and even Texas Hold Em’ Evergreen is a team of Doers, and it’s time to (let’s not get ahead of ourselves… celebrate all of the great work! updates on pg. 5!) Each week we’d like to recognize an employee for an accomplishment and their dedication to This issue celebrates the milestones ET’s success. you’ve achieved these past few If you’d like to nominate someone on your team, weeks, while highlighting the humor please reach out to Kerry Sullivan. in our learnings along the way. Evergreen Trading Vo l . 8 Whether it’s being recognized for great work, discovering your new found passion of dancing (please see page 2), or trying a new activity this weekend, you should be proud that you pushed yourself out of your comfort zone! Have a great weekend! “Sometimes you never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” - Dr. Seuss

AROUND THE (VIRTUAL) OFFICE Our TikTok’s have us seeing double with a DUET! Nadiya Diyakiv discovered “Walking Dunes” PPPUUUPPPPYYY! Welcome the newest member of the Natalia Eaddy & Brett Perrine… there are no words. near Montauk with her husband Sergii, where they ET fam, Reese, an 8lb French Bulldog. Congrats to John McKenna & his fiancée Nicole for becoming pawrents!!! This is everything! had no issues practicing social distancing! COVID-19 UPDATES MEME OTD JoLoefBufaiemdcfseetohahrrasnpeehraoeishApdtaJellfiSuabalneucbydtsahbkeitTneWmraaigsnlcfiFotoodioHntnuoeoybtEddtakehnteGbsohevtdyiiuesrntaorJuiwemrnaEpyameyeTraenseffke/nsuadettLmtnaouyydrormis,esnrt!sceothaoCsdiohslikoacwibpkneo.goeu,ntkm,thwasHekuiteobphwsmhtuoiThtstoteCeotsEdhshefibfifnpesoyckoarJttviahulvoenneerMemlryyLraaWdeeddicasFecMihHphheSoeeshn.a.aedryleinhdeobssytdeuJdroibhnyng a segment in CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Floto Award-Winning Hummus Evergreen Trading Vo l . 8

STORIES THAT INSPIRE Albirds launches a “Better Together” Carhartt manufactures 50,000 medical Casetify, a new UV sanitizer for your gowns and 2.5 million face masks for phone vows to donate 100% of proceeds campaign where if you buy a pair of shoes, of all purchases to GlobalGiving’s Corona health care workers. you can opt to donate a pair to healthcare Virus Relief fund. workers at 50% off. So far, the retailer has given $500,000 worth of shoes. Chewy partners with GreaterGood.org to Crocs donates 10,000 pairs of free shoes James Dyson designs a new ventilator in Support Animal Shelters and Rescues to US healthcare workers every day until 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the Impacted by Current Events. pandemic fight. stocks last. Evergreen Trading Vo l . 8

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT – JOUMANA JABER Gardening is a way to relax, TEST YOUR GREEN THUMB THIS WEEKEND! unwind, enjoy a bit of time in solace with nature and revel MY INDOOR GARDENING TIPS in its beauty. It is a joy to sow, Don’t have an outdoor space? You can gown herbs on the window watch things grow and reap sills. Here are 5 herbs you can grow in pots: the harvest. ❖ Sage, Mint, Rosemary, Basil, Thyme How to Plant: Gardening is the only activity I ❖ Buy small pots with drainage can still do when I'm worried ❖ Buy a bag of organic soil or angry or sad. Tending a ❖ Pre-moisten the soil before planting garden is a meditative, ❖ Plant your herbs in the middle of the pot and keep pressing the humbling experience - you can't force its growth, you soil down- add more soil until it is to the rim simply have to wait. ❖ Place your pot near the window where the sun is strong ❖ Water every other day I also, learned to compost. I use the soil to plant and every year we get new surprises from seeds in the compost. last year it was tomatoes and melons. The magnolias are out, the birds are singing, the grape vine is coming back and the daily fight with the squirrel that digs holes and eats my veggies ended once I placed a fake owl to keep her away! - Joumana Evergreen Trading Vo l . 8

EVERGREEN POKER TOURNAMENT UPDATES QUARANTINE The games have officially begun! CUP Updates on the week’s tournaments, like who took the crown, who cried, who drank too much too soon (ahem, Jen Herrmann), will be included in our Friday editions! We’ve already shared POOL B – THE RUNDOWN the good, bad, and the ugly of Pool A’s There are no partnerships in poker. That was made clear Thursday match on night as the Client Partnerships team competed in what was a truly Wednesday, rousing match. 12 intrepid players started the evening split across but read how two tables. While dress was casual (Stephen in Unabomber attire CP’s (Pool B’s) and Eero in his dice hat), play was not. tourney went…as Players came out firing from the start with several big pots taken out told by Ben Johnson! in the first minutes of play. As players started to get into their grooves and chip stack height seesawed up and down, the final table Words of advice for next week’s newbies: became clear: - Michael V - Eero - David - Karen - Ben - Stephen Ultimately, Eero proved to be best player of the night with Karen coming in 2nd after a strong performance! A warning for the next round: always be wary of the guy wearing a hat with dice on it. Evergreen Trading Vo l . 8