OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. – Whether they are giving to hospitals and schools or hosting charity golf tournaments, convenience stores are not ones to shy away from helping their communities.
Here are some recent examples:
Stewart's Shops
Stewart’s Shops and the Dake family have announced a $250,000 donation to The Snuggery at Glens Falls Hospital.
The Snuggery is the hospital’s birthing unit, which is celebrating its 30th birthday.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based Stewart’s Shops operates more than 330 convenience stores in New York and Vermont.
Smoker Friendly
Smoker Friendly International and the Cigarette Store Corp.’s 89 Smoker Friendly and Gasamat stores delivered funds totaling $100,237 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Colorado.
The efforts of store clerks and managers selling ribbons and roundups on transactions combined with an auction at the 19th Annual Smoker Friendly Conference and Tobacco Festival made this possible.
Boulder, Colo.-based Smoker Friendly operates nearly 100 corporate-owned stores in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming. Another approximately 850 stores in 38 states are operated by licensed retailers. Smoker Friendly’s parent company also operates the Gasamat chain of gas stations and convenience stores.
Parker's
Parker’s will host the third-annual Fueling the Community Charity Golf Tournament on October 27 at The Club at Savannah Harbor.
This tournament encourages players to tee off for charity, supporting education, healthcare and other causes in coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Last year, the tournament raised more than $70,000 for charity, attracting 144 players from across the region.
The golf tournament will feature a scramble playing format, offering prizes for the first-, second- and third-place teams. The tournament will offer Closest to the Hole, Longest Drive, Chip Off the Deck and Putting contests.
Parker’s, founded in 1976, currently operates 38 convenience stores and employs nearly 500 people throughout Georgia and South Carolina. Its headquarters is in Savannah, Ga.
VERC Enterprises
VERC Enterprises will again participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, slated for October 4 at the Hatch Shell in Boston.
Erin Fitzpatrick, the company’s marketing assistant and social media manager said that the company's goal is to have 100 VERC team members participate.
The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk is an opportunity to honor breast cancer survivors, increase awareness about the disease and raise money to help the American Cancer Society fight the disease through research, information and services.
VERC Enterprises is now accepting donations with canisters placed in each of its 24 locations.
The goal, said Fitzpatrick, is to raise $10,000.
Duxbury, Ma-based VERC, and Mobil/Gulf gasoline operator, has nearly 30 gas stations and convenience stores in eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Jackson's Food Stores
Jacksons Food Stores Inc. has partnered with the Dairy Farmers of Washington and the Dairy Farmers of Oregon to present two schools with iPad Learning Labs.
It donated learning labs containing 10 iPad devices and a mobile cart that can store, charge and sync up to 30 iPad devices to Buckman Arts Focus Elementary in Portland, Ore., and Forest Park Elementary in Lake Forest Park, Wash.
Both donations were made possible through Jacksons Food Stores’ “Milk Builds Strong Schools” campaign. The campaign, which ran March 18 to May 26 in its stores in both Oregon and Washington, set aside 5% of milk gallon sales to fund an iPad Learning Lab. Both schools were selected at random in a drawing of all public schools in the two states.
This is the third year that Jacksons Food Stores and the Dairy Farmers of Washington have partnered to donate a learning lab to a public school.
Jacksons Food Stores, Meridian, Idaho, has more than 200 stores in five western states.
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