This past week, members of the APX Alarm central monitoring station partnered with the Feed My Starving Children organization to prepare meal boxes for those in need. As a group, they prepared 175 boxes containing 37,800 meals which could feed 104 children for a full year.
“I felt blessed and humbled to help prepare these meals. Seeing the before and after pictures of the children all over the world that received the meals was amazing. I never knew how good it could feel to help,” said APX representative, Jennifer Brezniak.
Last week, the APX Alarm Modesto sales office had a great team building experience by helping clean the donation center and provide day care for the Modesto St. John’s Shelter Program for Women.
“I loved seeing the smiles on the faces of the little kids. They were so glad to just have someone to play with,” said APX Representative, Roger Evershed.
APX personnel joined this year’s celebration at the Saskatoon Children’s Festival by serving in the Lego booth. During the day of service, an estimated 1,000 children came through the booth in the three hours APX was there.
The Houston sales team broke out their paint brushes and rollers on their day of service for the His Place Child Center in Houston, Texas.
“It was really nice to be able to work together as a team while serving the community,” said APX Alarm Houston Sales Manager, Matt Stevenson. “It reminded us what we’re doing in Houston for the summer: trying to protect families and secure their futures.”
The Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life is a celebration of survival, a tribute to the lives of loved ones and a night of fun, friendship and fundraising to beat cancer. Relay For Life involves teams of 10 people who participate in an overnight non-competitive relay. Participants take turns walking, running or strolling around a track. Teams consist of people representing corporations, communities, families and friends.
On Saturday June 19, APX Alarm participated in Run With Angels which is an annual 5k run. The run took place throughout the beautiful gardens at Thanksgiving Point. The event is inspired and hosted by author and inspirational speaker Pam Hansen. All of the proceeds from this race benefit women’s and children’s services as well as Angel Watch. Angel Watch provides bereavement counseling and support for families who discover their baby has a life threatening or life limiting condition.
On April 20, out-fitted with 10 laptop computers and a new printer graciously donated by APX GIVES BACK, I spent two days on a plane headed for the Republic of Congo in Africa.
A friend of mine emailed me several weeks earlier inquiring about donations for a school in the Congo that is in desperate need of monetary support, primarily for a few computers. He described the school and students as follows:
The school is an L-shaped building with open windows and doors. It houses K thru 12th grade students, and is on supplemental electricity from the government so there are times when it’s run by generator.
APX Alarm has announced today that it has made a financial contribution to assist the programs and mission of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake have provided life-enriching services and opportunities to young people for over 36 years. Their programs and core services reach nearly 9,000 youth members between the ages of 6-18 every year.
As part of an ongoing demand for food bank contributions and services, APX Alarm has made a contribution to the Community Action Food Bank. Serving as the second-largest food bank in Utah, the Community Action Food Bank distributes over 3 million pounds of food each year to six food pantries and several other agencies. Last year alone, the organization distributed food to over 30,000 households in Utah.
As part of the 2010 Provo School District Foundation 8th annual Easter basket fundraiser program, APX Alarm was pleased to participate in this year’s corporate auction to help raise funds for after school programs. With gift baskets ranging from $20 – $25,000, the auction raised over $100,000 which all the proceeds raised are going directly to after school programs in the Provo School District.
On Friday, March 12, an estimated 600 people attended “Dance for PWS!” sponsored by APX Alarm. The event featured an awards ceremony, live auction and dinner to help raise funds for Prader-Willi Syndrome, a complex genetic disorder that causes cognitive impairment, weak muscle tone, respiratory disorders, and an insatiable appetite that can lead to morbid obesity and early death.
Earlier this month, APX invited students from Sunset View Elementary School in Provo, Utah to visit the new corporate headquarters and provide a “little” extra incentive to help them in their after school programs.
This past month, the APX Family Foundation made a $1,000 donation for the Girl Scouts “Operation Cookie Drop” campaign. The program allows customers to make donations which will be used to purchase Girl Scout cookies for our military troops serving overseas.
APX and the APX Family Foundation are partnering for the second consecutive year with Now I Can “Run to Walk” by making a $1,000 donation.
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake struck Haiti, claiming and estimated 200,000 lives and becoming one of the worst catastrophes in modern history. The tragedy left hundreds of thousands of people injured and homeless, many of them children.
In response to Haiti’s desperate need for medical supplies, APX Alarm and the International Aid Serving Kids (IASK) held a “Medical Supply Drive” on January 23 at the new APX Alarm corporate headquarters in Provo.