APX Alarm Donates $30,000 to Provo Community Action Services and Food Bank
APX Family Foundation Gives Back During the Holiday Season
Provo, Utah, Nov. 30, 2009 – APX Alarm, one of the nation’s largest residential security alarm companies, announced today it is has donated $30,000 to Provo’s Community Action Services and Food Bank. The donation was used for needed equipment and food supplies during the holiday season.
As part of the APX Family Foundation, the company made the donation with part of the proceeds used towards the purchase of a much needed forklift required to move and store donated items at the Community Action Services facility. The remaining portion of the donation went towards the purchase and assembly of Thanksgiving dinner for over 820 local families in need. The boxes would feed up to 4,000 people.
In previous years, Community Action Services has provided food for over 300 families each day during the Thanksgiving week. However, the number of people hit hard by the economic slowdown increased dramatically this year.
“Right now, we don’t even have enough turkey dinners for one day’s worth of requests,” said Jim Thomas, program manager for Community Action Food Bank. The donation from APX Alarm has helped in such a positive way. As our resources have been strained they have stepped in to help us meet the increasing demand.”
Over 90 APX Alarm employees and other volunteers assembled the dinners, transported boxes and distributed the meals.
About Community Action Services and Food Bank
Community Action Services and Food Bank is part of America’s largest poverty fighting network. We are one of more than 1,100 Community Action Agencies across the country who is working to fulfill the Promise of Community Action.
It was such a pleasure to work with fellow employees on a project like this, and know that so many people in need will benefit from it.
Few things are better than being thankful and giving to others. Way to go APX!
Nice work APX!!!!!!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
What an awesome experience to be part of a company that cares so much about giving. Everything we do is to provide excellent customer support to the families we protect day to day then above that we have the opportunity to provide gifts like this to those in need. I love everything about what we do here at APX Alarm and am grateful every day to be a part of all of it.
It was an awesome experiance helping with this project. I think its great how often we get opportunities like this to help people in need.
This was a great event…. I was so happy that I was able to bring Housermania to participate. It was great for the kids and I.
This Thanksgiving project made me especially grateful for my job. First of all, I’m grateful to have a job, and especially that I work for a company that does so much service and charity for the community, and all across the country.
This was a great experience for my wife and I. Reminded me of our trip to Galveston after Hurricane Ike. Great memories!