SCRA Employees Present School Supply Donations to Area Organizations

CHARLESTON, SC – September 21, 2010 – Associates at SCRA recently  worked with organizations throughout South Carolina to complete a Flash Drive to provide school supplies for those in need. Coordinating these programs is Dale Orren, an SCRA Senior Program Manager. Dale volunteers to coordinate these activities year-round.

Throughout the year we identify worthwhile programs to support, and ask employees to bring donations of appropriate items. We then deliver these donations to the selected programs, with no prior notice, providing the much-needed contributions, described Mr. Orren. It is a rewarding experience, and always a delight to see the surprise and smiles on the faces of the folks that we’re helping with our donations.  We have such a caring, generous team across SCRA that once we get going, it takes care of itself.

The recent school supply Flash Drive took place at SCRA locations across the state. Recipient organizations included The Teachers’ Supply Closet in Charleston, Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, Sistercare, Inc. in Columbia, and School District #5 in Anderson.  These organizations accept donations throughout the year.

Charleston-based SCRA associates made a surprise donation to The Teachers’ Supply Closet, a non-profit organization that provides free school supplies to teachers in the Charleston Tri-County area within schools that have at least 90 percent of students on free or reduced price meal programs. The organization accepts donations of new and gently used office, school and art supplies, excess inventory, slightly damaged merchandise, and outdated tradeshow products. These items are made available to teachers for use in the classroom.  In 2009, The Teachers’ Supply Closet provided basic school supplies to nearly 5,000 children across these three counties. Teachers are able to shop at the Teachers’ Supply Closet, with authorization to gather the necessary supplies for each student in their classroom. 

Connie Maxwell Children’s Home received donations from the SCRA Greenwood office. This Greenwood-based organization provides hope for children and families dealing with difficult situations in their lives. This residential childcare ministry has four additional campuses across the state. Connie Maxwell Children’s Home has been filling the needs of children since 1892. Today, eighty children reside in ten family-styled homes on the main campus.

The SCRA Columbia Team collected donations to support a local charity, the Sistercare, Inc. program.  Sistercare is a program of services for battered women and their children residing in Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry and Richland counties in South Carolina.

The Anderson School District #5 benefitted from the SCRA team located there. They gathered school supplies to support ongoing efforts outlined in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Program, a Congressional Act that works to ensure that each child of a homeless person and each homeless youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths.

SCRA CEO Bill Mahoney (pictured, left) stated, Our company culture is to make good things happen, not only for our global clients and partners, but also for local communities which house our operations. A long-standing practice at the company is facilitating opportunities for our employees to make charitable gifts. The positive results of this Flash Drive, orchestrated with customary contagious enthusiasm by Dale Orren, are just another example of SCRA’s values in action.

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