As a family owned and operated business, the concept of giving back to our community, which has helped made Safeguard Arizona’s leading provider of security solutions, is not new. In fact, many Safeguard employees, including its Management Team, are involved in numerous charities. Involvement ranges from serving on Executive Boards to participating in marathons, food drives and other fundraising events.
Safeguard does not like to promote our involvement with charitable organizations often. If it’s promoted too often, it is our belief that it actually lessens the sincerity of that contribution. Still, we made a donation to a local elementary school last week that we really wanted to share.
Safeguard employees held an internal school supplies drive leading up to our Holiday Party. Our employees were provided a list of supplies that one lucky local school needed for their students’ classrooms. This school, Santa Fe Elementary School, was chosen after we had held an essay contest to share how the supplies would be utilized by the Students and Teachers. Collection boxes were placed throughout Safeguard, employees were allowed to make cash donations and we even had a “Dunk Tank” where various Management Team members took turns getting soaked by employees that made a charitable contribution.
Managers Getting Soaked for a Good Cause
Safeguard employees raised nearly $2,000! Even more special, Safeguard owner John Jennings matched the contribution. In all, Safeguard was able to raise $4,000 to purchase the school supplies that Santa Fe so desperately needed.
Our contribution really hit home when we delivered all of the supplies to the school. The students made signs thanking Safeguard for their help, ABC 15 came out to view the event, and we were able to deliver the materials to the students in their classes. Looking at their faces light up upon receiving these donations helped us to truly understand the difference we had made.
While Safeguard protects many of our local schools with Fire Alarm, Sprinkler, Access Control, Security, Surveillance Camera and other security related systems – this was a contribution that truly helped the school. Making a difference in someone’s life, helping a child get a better education and helping a school that struggles with ever-shrinking education budgets was pretty special.
To view ABC 15′s mentioning of this event, please click here.
To view pictures of Safeguard delivering the school supplies, please click here.
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