Posts Tagged ‘Volunteers’
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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Primerica’s Great Day of Service was a beautiful, breezy fall day that had been preceded by days and days and days of rain in the Atlanta area. Luckily, the clouds parted this past October 2, and more than 80 Primerica Home Office volunteers banded together to spruce up, clean up, paint up and generally fix up the Partners Against Domestic Violence women’s and children’s emergency shelter.
Out came the brooms, mops, paint scrapers, brushers, rollers, sprayers, rakes, shovels, shears and saws – all employed to slick the place up a bit. The object was to spend a day making the shelter and its yard and play areas just a little nicer for those in need.
The Great Day of Service is the brainchild of the Gwinnett (County, GA) Coalition for Health and Human Services and it’s one of the most popular volunteer service days at Primerica’s Home Office. Primericans are always looking for ways to give back to their community and this truly was a Great Day of Service.
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The quarterly Primerica Home Office blood drive was held on Wednesday, August 12, and collected 56 pints of blood for distribution by the Red Cross. That’s enough blood to benefit up to 168 recipients.
Tags: blood donation, blood donors, Georgia Aquarium, Primerica, red cross, volunteeerism, Volunteers
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The Summer Food Drive competition at Primerica’s Home Office is a popular campaign with employees. There’s always a healthy rivalry among the departments to see who can collect the most food items for donation to the Lilburn (GA) Co-op. It’s a joy to help out this wonderful organization, which has provided all kinds of services to people who find themselves in need in the Gwinnett county area since 1994. As with every year, Primerica’s employees didn’t disappoint. With more than 4,500 food items donated, volunteers filled three SUVs and two pickup trucks for the trip back to the food pantry.
The food drive was promoted throughout the Home Office campus with a Primerican poster campaign.
The following departments contributed to Primerica’s generous effort: Publications, Insurance Business Counsel, Human Resources, PFS University, PFSU Prelicensing/Agency Relations, Facilities/Warehouse, Television, Information Technology, Securities and Lilburn Co-Op volunteers were happy to take the food for folks in need.
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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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