Essendant Charitable Foundation

We love getting to partner with groups like NJ Rise to be able to provide backpacks for the youth in the area!

We would like to recognize our friends from Essendant Charitable Foundation who generously donated a pallet full of backpacks to our Backpack Drive, as well as a $1,000 check to be used for stuffing them full of school supplies for our local youth! We were so excited to pick up these boxes full of colorful backpacks and we know that they'll be greatly appreciated by the children whose school year will be made a little brighter by them!

Last week some of our Merchandising team was able to give back to Compass House and support their local community!

Thanks to the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County Business Meets Community Program, we were able to have Alex Schmirl and his group from Essendant come and volunteer at our Shelter. They did an amazing job with landscaping and we are extremely thankful for their time and resources donated to making our Shelter look beautiful!

Help us share a big thank you today with Essendant Charitable Foundation for their recent donation to support DuPagePads! The Essendant Charitable Foundation coordinates and mobilizes Essendant resources to make a difference in the lives of those in need around the world. Thank you Essendant for your continued support to end homelessness. Find out more about this generous foundation at
http://essendant.com/about-us/values/giving-back/

We are excited to announce that the Essendant Charitable Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Allison Wadhams as President of the Foundation. Allison has been involved with the Backpack Program for the last several years and is excited to take on this role. She looks forward to growing the Foundation’s footprint, supporting the causes that are important to associates, and continuing to make a difference in the lives of those in need as the mission of the Foundation.

Essendant Charitable Foundation was founded in response to Hurricane Katrina, and its commitment to disaster response continues to be a key priority. Today, the Foundation announced two gifts to support relief efforts in Australia and Puerto Rico.

Essendant Charitable Foundation is making a gift to Save the Children to create child-friendly spaces to support displaced families in communities suffering from the trauma of the wildfires.

Essendant Charitable Foundation is making a gift to World Vision to support the long-term relief and recovery efforts in Puerto Rico following the earthquakes that began in December and continued into January. World Vision has already provided disaster relief items to the island that were put to immediate use, including protective clothing, paper products, and paper towels that were donated by Essendant and stored in Puerto Rico to allow for immediate response in a crisis. World Vision will continue providing support in the months ahead.

We are grateful to our charitable partners for their efforts to reach those in the most need.

Our Day of Giving has come to a close, but the good works continue! Yesterday, an FSC team participated in Cookies from the Heart, baking sweet treats at Ronald McDonald House for the families coping with their children's health challenges.