By Chris Lee on 10/14/2011 10:14 AM

ACCESS Destination Services recently participated in a Corporate Social Responsibility program of the canine variety.  On a midweek October morning, team members from the ACCESS South Florida office met at the Warm Hearts Pet Rescue in Boynton Beach to build dog houses as part of a holiday adoption drive.

ACCESS Florida team members assembled and custom-decorated wooden dog houses to be given away with adoptions.  “The dog houses are gifts to help inspire folks to give these animals a home for the holidays,” said Jeff Nelke, Vice President and General Manager of ACCESS Destination Services in South Florida.  He continued, “This was a wonderful team building exercise, and we very much appreciated the opportunity to work with Warm Hearts Pet Rescue to make a difference in our local community.”

Warm Hearts Pet Rescue is a no-kill facility dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of dogs from conventional shelters in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.  Its mission is to provide permanent loving homes for the animals in their care.  

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By Chris Lee on 10/11/2011 9:45 AM

September marked the start of the school year for most U.S. students.  And for many families struggling to manage more fundamental expenses, like food, clothing and rent, school comes as just another unwelcome expense.  As school budgets lose funding year after year, families find themselves with an ever-expanding list of mandated back-to-school supplies.  Experts estimate that the per-child cost of classroom supplies can be as much as $200 in some areas, an average increase of 25% over 2010.

Last month, through ACCESS Operation GIVE, team members from ACCESS Destination Services partnered with our colleagues in the hospitality industry for the second time to organize a school supply drive for families in our community.  We purchased, assembled and distributed more than 125 Back-to-School kits for students in grades kindergarten through 6^th.  Kits contained paper, pencils, erasers, rulers and other classroom supplies. With help from our industry partners, packages were then distributed to families who had the greatest need.

Participating in the ACCESS Operation GIVE School Supply Drive gave ACCESS team members and our partners a wonderful sense of purpose. While our team regularly designs and produces CSR programming elements for clients that add meaning into meetings©, having an opportunity to give back in the communities where we live and work has always been an important component of our company culture.  And programs that benefit children not only hold a special place in my heart, they align with our company values.

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