At Cummins Bridgeway, we believe every person and every company can make a difference. In June of 2008, Cummins Bridgeway launched a new community service program with the mission of serving and improving the communities in which Cummins Bridgeway does business and unleash the power of Cummins by leveraging our people, connections, money, products and services to make a difference.
| 2008/12/23 |
Dearborn Branch Adopts a Family |
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The Dearborn branch of Cummins Bridgeway adopted a local family for Christmas again this year through the Lighthouse of Oakland County Holiday Program. This program allows individuals, families or businesses to adopt a family for the holidays and provide the family with Christmas gifts and necessities. Pictured to the left is Stacy, a Bridgeway employee, who organized the efforts at the Dearborn branch this year, next to several of the gifts donated by our employees. For more information on the Lighthouse organization, please visit their web site at www.lighthouseoakland.org |
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| 2008/12/11 |
Hot Dog Fridays |
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The Hubbard Branch presented a check to the Hubbard Food Pantry today. The donation funds were raised by having hot dog sales at lunch time on Fridays at the branch! |
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| 2008/11/24 |
PB&J Outreach part II |
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The New Hudson Corporate Office held an internal competion to see which department could collect the most canned goods for donation to the PBJ Outreach (more PBJ information below). Today the totals were calculated and administration won! As a prize to the winning department, Cummins Bridgeway was to supply a pizza party. The admin group decided instead to donate the money for the pizza party to the PBJ Outreach as well. |
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| 2008/11/24 |
Grove City Pantry Food Drive |
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The Grove City branch wrapped up their Grove City City Food Pantry community service project last week. There were several smaller events that contributed to the overall project including:
- Over the past few months we have been collecting non perishable food items.
- A pizza lunch day for the employees , with a donation of non perishable food items.
- A casual Friday "jean" day with a donation of food items.
- Collecting empty cans for recycling to raise money to buy food items
- A Charity Softball game against the Hilliard branch to raise money . " Way to Go Grove City Distribution " 14 to 10. we also sold hot dog, chips, water and cupcakes with the proceeds going towards the food panty items.
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| 2008/11/21 |
Clothing Drive for the National Kidney Foundation |
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The mission of the National Kidney Foundation is to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals & families affected by these diseases and increase availability of all organs for transplant. Cummins Bridgeway employees collected clothings and other items for the foundation to help fund their chritable and educational work. They have a thrift store a couple miles from our Mt. Clemes location where volunteers go through the items donated and pay the Kindney Foundation for the items they think will sell. Any items that do not sell are packaged up and sent overseas. |
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| 2008/11/13 |
Toys For Tots 2008 Toy Drive |
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| The New Hudson service branch will be conducting a toy drive for Toys for Tots from November 13 through December 15th. If you would like to drop off any unwrapped new toys for donation, you are wecome to stop by. For more information on Toys for Tots, please visit their website. For details on our toy drive, please see this file. |
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| 2008/11/11 |
Winter Clothes Drive |
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Congratulations to the New Hudson branch employees who beat out their Dearborn couterparts in the 2008 winter clothes drive. Together they collected over 650 pounds of clothes for local charities. The Dearborn branch employees will be decorating the New Hudson branch for the upcoming holiday season as a prize for the winner! |
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| 2008/10/30 |
Coats for the Cold |
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Cummins Bridgeway would like to thank the many people in the community who helped make the Coats for the Cold campaign a success. With your assistance, we were able to collect over 100 coats to distribute throuhout Oakland County! |
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| 2008/10/27 |
Food Fight III |
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Cummins Bridgeway loves food fights. This time it was Pittsburgh versus Cleveland. After several heated days of competition, the Pittsburgh branch came out victorious with 404 pounds of food donated to the Pittsburgh Food Bank. In total, the two branches collected over 600 non-perishable food items to donate to local charities. |
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| 2008/10/20 |
PB&J Outreach |
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| On October 18th a group of Cummins Bridgeway employees volunteered their time to the PBJ Outreach program (pbjoutreach.org) in Detroit. The PBJ Outreach is a charity organization that distributes food and clothing to the detroit area's homeless. The program is operated by the Our Lady of Good Council Parish and has been running for 6 years. If you would like more information on the program, please visit their web site at http://www.pbjoutreach.org/ |
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| 2008/09/12 |
Wear Jeans for Charity! |
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The New Hudson branch and corporate office offered employees a chance to wear jeans to work for the day if they donated $5.00 to local schools to help buy school supplies. 70 employees particapted and raised $350. The company then matched that value so we were able to donate $700 for a great cause. |
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| 2008/09/12 |
Food Fight II |
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| This time the Gaylord and Traverse City branches battled it out with a food fight. Gaylord, using some clever last minute strategy, came out victorious. Between the two braches, 227 non-perisable food items were collected for local food pantries. |
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| 2008/08/29 |
School Supply Drive |
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The Cummins Bridgeway distribution center held a school supply drive for a local elementary school over the past month. The branch accepted spare change from employees and customer, collected soda cans, and collected scrap metal from the branch as well as from community members. The soda cans and scrap metal were brought to a collection center and redeemed for cash. In total $325 was collected and used to buy the supplies requested by the local school.
We also contacted our local paper supply companies who were gracious enough to donate tissue paper and plastic storage bags towards the cause. |
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| 2008/08/25 |
Food Fight! |
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The "food fight" between the Dearborn and the New Hudson branches officially ended this week! The branches had a contest to see which location could collect more non-perishables for area food banks. Dearborn won with 250 items, New Hudson collected 115. New Hudson will be supplying Dearborn with a pizza lunch this week.
All in all, both branches won as we had great participation from employees and many people will benefit! |
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| 2008/08/06 |
Spare Change Jar - Grove City Branch |
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The Grove City Branch has opened a "spare change jar" for collection towards our August School Supply drive.
Ohio does not have a deposit on soda cans, so we have also setup can drops around the building. We will be taking the cans to the recycling center in Columbus for more monies towards the school supply drive.
Special thanks to Sandy D. for the fine artwork she created to advertise the new program! |
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| 2008/08/01 |
Food Drive |
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The Grove City branch of Cummins Bridgeway has held 2 successful food drives so far this summer to support the Grove City Food Pantry. They will also be collecting school supplies for students throughout the month of August. To make a donation, please contact the Grove City Branch at (614) 604-6000. |
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| 2008/07/08 |
Indiana Flood Relief |
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The employees of Cummins Bridgeway collected $6,078.00 for the Indiana Flood Relief Fund. This money will be sent to the Cummins Foundation which will then match our funds and donate a total of over $12,000 to those people affected by recent flooding in Indiana. We would like to thank each of our branches for efforts in raising money for this initiative. |
