February 2010 Newsletter
Quadax Reaches Out to the Community
Quadax not only cares deeply about service to our clients, but also about service to our communities. This past year the company sponsored an Outreach Committee, to focus our efforts on what we can do to help those in need, as well as a Wellness Committee, to focus on the health and well-being of our employees, who are key to the Quadax service. The following are some of the projects our staff is participating in to help make our communities better.
National Wear Red Day
The Quadax Wellness Committee sponsored an awareness campaign for the fight against heart disease, particularly in women whose heart attack symptoms are likely to go unrecognized. The Quadax staff joined millions across the nation in support of the effort by wearing the color red on February 5, 2010, the National Wear Red Day®. The observance provides everyone an opportunity to show their support and to unite against this silent killer.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women in the United States, but it often can be prevented by making healthier lifestyle choices. In addition to the Wear Red day, the Quadax Wellness initiative included educational materials on heart disease distributed to employees, AED (Automated External Defibrillator) installation and training, and Lunch’n’Learn seminars on heart attack prevention, warning signs, and risk factors, especially for women.
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| Quadax employees showed their support for the fight against heart disease by wearing the color red on National Wear Red Day. |
Laura's Home
Quadax has begun providing assistance to Laura’s Home Women’s Crisis Center as an ongoing community outreach program. Located in Cleveland, Laura’s Home is a branch of the City Mission that has been helping women and their children facing various crises since 2003. Last year, Laura’s Home provided meals and shelter to 639 women and 376 children in crisis.
Since beginning our partnership in the fall of 2009, Quadax has collected over $1600 through various fundraisers that has been set aside to fund our main project, providing meals. Volunteers on the Quadax Outreach Committee will use this money to prepare and serve a weekend meal to the residents of Laura’s Home on a quarterly basis. In addition to the meal fund, Quadax has collected over $1300 in gift cards and monetary donations from fundraisers, including a dress-down “jeans week” and our holiday giving tree. The gift cards are reserved for special occasions and other circumstances such as job interviews, and allow the women at Laura’s Home to make purchases of clothing, makeup, and other items at local retailers. Our employees also contributed enough “Hope Totes” with toiletries and other important items to fill three vans. Future fundraising events include a reserved parking spot raffle, raffles for sporting events and restaurant gift cards, and another opportunity for employees to dress-down at the office.
Quadax proudly supports Laura’s Home’s mission to provide security and stability to those in need.
Beatitude House
For the past two years, Quadax’s Youngstown branch has been helping those less fortunate by collecting money to give a family at the Beatitude House a Merry Christmas. The Beatitude House, a Youngstown shelter for abused women and their children, works with the women to help them improve their lives and the lives of their families. Last year, the Quadax branch office sponsored a mother and her two children; this year, they sponsored another mother and her three children. Through the staff’s generosity, the families received everything on their wish lists, and even a little something extra! In addition, the staff collected food for the Mahoning Valley Rescue Mission. The Rescue Mission is a non-profit organization that houses and feeds the homeless and poor.
Office managers, Lynn Revak and Sharon Lloyd, are very proud of their staff and appreciate how they gave of themselves to make a better Christmas for others.
To learn more about these organizations, visit:
Go Red for Women: www.goredforwomen.org
American Heart Association: www.americanheart.org
Laura's Home:www.thecitymission.org/laurashome.htm
The City Mission (Cleveland): www.thecitymission.org
Beatitude House: www.beatitudehouseonline.org
Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley: www.rescuemahoningvalley.org