Posts Tagged ‘Community’
The Primerica Home Office wrapped up its summer Stamp Out Hunger food drive, benefiting the Lilburn Cooperative with a total of 4,500 items collected.
Field Technology gathered the most items by far – bringing in 1,914, or 44 items per person.
Stamp Out Hunger is a nationwide effort to provide food to local food banks, which experience challenges during the summer months due to lower donations. If you want to help those in need right now in Gwinnett County, Lilburn, Stone Mountain and parts of Tucker, the Lilburn coop is a great community resource.
If you would like to support a food bank in another area, visit http://feedingamerica.org for US food banks and http://foodbankscanada.ca/main.cfm for those in Canada.
Tags: Community, donate, food banks, food drive, Lilburn Cooperative, Primerica, Stamp Out Hunger, volunteerism, Volunteers
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Disco hits played this past March 5 as Primerica Home Office employees joined the American Cancer Society’s Linda Story to kick off two months of fundraising for the Relay For Life of Gwinnett County with a balloon release. What started as one man’s marathon effort in 1985 – when Dr. Gordy Klatt, of Tacoma, WA, walked around a track for 24 hours to raise money for ACS – has grown into to the world’s largest fundraising movement to fight cancer with 5,000 communities in 19 countries taking part.
You can buy luminaria to honor friends and loved ones who have died from cancer or are living with cancer, right here at the Gwinnett ACS Relay for Life site. Better yet, join us at the Luminary Ceremony on May 7 at the Gwinnett Fairgrounds! If you’re not in the Atlanta area, find out about an event near you by visiting the Relay for Life site.
The Primerica team of employees has been recognized as an All Star team each year for its very high level of fundraising. In 2006 Primerica was recognized as one of the Top 10 teams in United States for its efforts that year — which is no small feat given that there are over 200,000 Relay Teams across the country.
Primerica and its employees have given a total of $432,787 over the last five years! That’s what the ACS terms “Diamond Level” among fundraising teams — and what Primericans call an honor and a privilege.
“Primerica employees have driven cancer patients to treatment, served on boards and committees, asked for donations in many creative ways and always with a willing heart. We, the American Cancer Society, can not ask for a better partner,” says American Cancer Society Area Executive Director, Randy Redner.
Tags: American Cancer Society, Cancer Fundraisers, Community, Dr. Gordy Klatt, Primerica, Relay For Life
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Imagine It! Board Member and Primerica CFO Alison Rand was proud to announce that Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta will honor Primerica for its “outstanding commitment to the wellbeing of children and families of our community” at the Museum’s gala, Amuse’UM, to be held on February 20, 2010.
Primerica Co-CEO Rick Williams served on the founding Board of Directors. Since officially opening in 2003, many Primerica employees and departments — from Community Relations to Publications — have contributed their time and talent to support the museum and its work with children.
“For nearly a decade,” says Rand, “the financial and in-kind resources that Primerica and its employees have provided have made a profound difference in the museum’s ability to spark imagination and discovery for more than 1,250,000 children and their caregivers. Through grant support, board leadership, committee involvement, graphic design and print services, Primerica has enabled Imagine It! to bring rich, innovative, hands-on learning experiences to families and schools in the metro Atlanta area.”
Imagine It! has created a unique place where children and parents can play and learn together about a variety of topics in a safe, fun and nurturing setting. Tens of thousands of disadvantaged children have been welcomed free of charge, and many provided with free transportation to the Museum, so that visitation barriers are broken down and resources are openly shared. Through extensive community collaborations, Imagine It! is mobilizing four of Atlanta’s most impoverished neighborhoods to engage parents in the education of their children using the educational tools of the Museum.
Primerica is proud to partner with the Museum and is honored to receive such recognition.
Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta encourages children to learn by doing. This little one enjoyed playing with the colorful balls in the Tools for Solutions exhibit.
Tags: Atlanta, children, Children's Museum, Community, Imagine It!, learning, Primerica
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Primerica Home Office associates annually raise funds and volunteer for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life program. This year’s effort took on a surfing theme and called on participants to help Wipe Out Cancer. In addition to participating in the Relay For Life event itself, the entire month of April led up to the Relay with events such as a tricycle race, baked goods and book sales, cookout fundraisers, a silent auction and more. Primerica associates form teams and compete to see who can raise the most money with their events. Relay For Life is a fun way to give back to the community. This year, Primerica raised more than $61,000 for Relay. We’re hoping that next year we can do even better!
Primerica people love to join together to make the community a better place.
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Tags: American Cancer Society, Cancer Fundraisers, Community, Primerica, Relay For Life
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Spending a few hours each month as a volunteer for a worthy community organization is not only a way to make your community a little better – it makes you feel good too. One effort that a lot of Primerica Home Office employees have been giving their time to is the Gwinnett County Senior Services’ Meals on Wheels program.
Run by a handful of staff, the program feeds 400 seniors in their homes each day and serves another 125 in county-run senior centers. There is no way the senior services staff could deliver all the meals themselves – so volunteers are crucial to the program.
Ray Nelms, in the financial systems department, has been volunteering since 1992 when Primerica partnered with Senior Services! Under the program, each volunteer can take an hour or so from his or her workday once a month to deliver meals. “It’s a rewarding thing to get out and see the people who you get to know on your delivery route,” says Ray. “Most of these older folks don’t have a lot of outside contacts – they may not even hear from family members. As a Meals on Wheels volunteer, you are a connection to the outside world for them. They become your extended family. Sure, you’re delivering a hot meal but checking in on people and giving them a smile are important too.”
Tags: Community, Gwinnett County, Gwinnett County Senior Services, Meals on Wheels, Primerica, volunteerism, Volunteers
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When you think of canned food drives, you probably think drives organized around Christmastime or the holidays. For Primerica Financial Services, the work to “can” hunger in the local community is a year-round effort. Now, this work is more important than ever as local food banks struggle to keep up with increased demand in this tough economy.
“The problem is not the lack of food but limited access to the food which is available,” says Primerica’s Program and Events Coordinator Renee Carter. “Food banks provide the access linking people to food. We want to be a positive link in this chain of action.”
Primerica works with the Lilburn Co-Op, and held two company-wide food drives in 2008. A summer food drive netted more than 7,000 items and employees donated another 10,000 items during a food drive in November. Another major food drive campaign will kick off in July. “I spoke with the director of the Lilburn Co-Op and she stated that the summer food drive is most important because so many families depend on the state’s free breakfast and lunch programs,” Renee says. “During the summer this is not available to families in need and children of school age sometimes miss meals. It is hard on some families to provide three square meals per day.”
Tags: charity, Community, food banks, food drive, hunger, lilburn co-op, Primerica
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