Neighbors in Want
Earlier this vacation season, Danforth workers in Albany and Rochester, New York additionally reached out to assist neighbors in want.
In Albany, Danforth organized a Thanksgiving meals drive along side CAPTAIN Neighborhood Human Companies, a volunteer-driven non-profit group in Saratoga County. The Danforth group collected meals and assembled 25 meals baskets for a number of native households. The hampers included all the pieces wanted for a conventional Thanksgiving dinner, together with a present card for a turkey. Danforth has been partnering with CAPTAIN for the previous 4 years, offering Thanksgiving baskets for greater than 80 native households in want.
In Rochester, Danforth once more stepped ahead to help native Veterans and their households dwelling in low-income housing on the Canandaigua VA Medical Heart campus. Danforth has been conducting an annual Veterans Vacation Meals Drive at its Rochester workplace for the previous six years. The drive helps residents dwelling in Constructing 17 on the Canandaigua VA campus, which gives housing for Veterans who’re disabled and/or low-income. Every of the constructing’s 17 residences obtained a basket with all of the fixings for a conventional Thanksgiving meal. Households with youngsters additionally obtained a Thanksgiving turkey.
“We couldn’t be prouder of the best way our staff all the time embrace the chance to assist make the vacations somewhat brighter for others in our communities,” Beck stated.
John W. Danforth Co.
Based in 1884, Danforth has greater than 1,000 workers throughout a geographic footprint that features operations in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, New York, and Columbus, Ohio. The corporate works collaboratively with its union labor companions together with the United Affiliation of Plumbers and Pipefitters, the Sheet Steel, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Employees, and several other different labor companions throughout many native union jurisdictions all through the northeast and past. Danforth operates an Worker Inventory Possession Plan, giving the corporate’s workforce an possession stake within the firm.
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