On Wednesday, July 21, 30 APX employees volunteered their time to help build with Habitat for Humanity in Utah County. Habitat for Humanity is an organization committed to helping families have homes. This organization was started in 1976 as an answer to the poor living conditions in Georgia. To date Habitat for Humanity has built over 300,000 homes, providing shelter for 90 million people throughout the world.
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.
As part of the APX day of service, the Birmingham, Alabama sales and technician teams helped serve meals to the homeless through the Downtown Rescue Mission. The mission is a place of refuge – offering different charities for the homeless in Alabama. Last year alone, the mission served over 170,000 meals to those in need.
The Austin, Texas team partnered with the Round Rock Area Serving Center to sort donations, clear out unusable items and unload a truck of used computers and printers.
“Giving back to the communities is something we wanted to integrate into our summer program,” said APX Alarm, Co-Manager Zak Murray. We sweat and fight next to each other every day. It was good to see the smiles and service that also brought our office together,”
America’s Second Harvest has been providing food relief for low-income seniors in Savannah, Georgia are for seniors in our community since 1984 through our Brown Bag for the Elderly program. As part of the APX “Day of Giving” volunteers from APX Alarm joined other community volunteers at the food bank to pack 1,700 bags with about 20 pounds of food including beef stew, canned tuna, canned pork, shelf stable milk, apple sauce, prunes, grits, egg noodles, tomato soup, canned beans, canned corn, canned mixed vegetables, walnuts, and dry black-eyed peas. The bags provide enough food for at least five meals for income eligible senior citizens in our area.
APX Alarm launches fund raising challenge with $60,000 commitment to support families in need during the holidays. APX Alarm, one of the nation’s largest residential security alarm companies, announced today it has launched a community donation challenge to assist hundreds of families in financial need during the holiday season.
As part of the APX Alarm Family Foundation, company CEO Todd Pedersen and Regional Vice President Jared Young presented Tammie Barker with a check for $20,000 that will help provide financial assistance for her husband’s cancer treatment he is currently receiving.
Through the Sub for Santa program that APX sponsored in December, there were many families who needed extra help for Christmas. Hundreds of families needed help in supplying their own family with gifts for Christmas. Because of the generous giving by APX employees (over $113,000), APX was able to help a few families receive special request that were in addition to the Christmas presents requested.