Giving Back Archives - The Douglas Company - Senior Living and Multifamily General Contractor Located in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Florida

Right before the Christmas holiday, the associates of The Douglas Company donated a heaping 1,860 pounds of non-perishable food and cleaning items to The Family House of Toledo. The Douglas Company initiated a food drive challenge amongst the departments for the campaign, "It has been known to get rather competitive around here and the challenge fit our group well," said Natasha Ulmer, who was one of the organizers of the campaign. "We are always interested in giving back to the community, so we made it into a departmental competition by how many pounds were brought in by the employees of each department.... and of course, one operations team doesn't want another operations team to beat them in donations, and support staff doesn't want sales and estimating to beat them in donations, so it was just kind of a neat, friendly competitive way to build enthusiasm and get some donations to give...

Right before the Christmas holiday, the employees of The Douglas Company donated a heaping 1,860 pounds of non-perishable food and cleaning items to The Family House of Toledo. The Douglas Company initiated a food drive challenge amongst the departments for the campaign, “It has been to get rather competitive around here, and the challenge fit our group well,” said Andrew Sokol, Estimator at The Douglas Company.

The Family House is truly a unique homeless shelter because the whole family can stay together. The average age of a homeless child is four, and right now, 65 kids live within these walls at Family House, the second-largest family homeless shelter in Ohio. “We are feeding approximately 131 people three times a day, so you can imagine how much food we go through.” said Renee Palacios, Executive Director of Family House.” “This is by far the largest food donation we have received in the...