As the great American educator, Booker T. Washington, observed, “If you want to lift up yourself, lift up someone else.” Fostering the development of the community is a responsibility shared by all -- not just individuals but corporations of all sizes. Since its inception twenty-five years ago, Shamrock Supply Company, Inc. has demonstrated its commitment to the improvement of the community, both locally and nationally, through its support of and involvement in various public and private charitable initiatives. Today, Shamrock Supply Company directs its community involvement and support to non-profit organizations in three core areas: Athletics, Education, and Health/Social Services.
In order to broaden the scope of and to augment the impact of its community involvement, Shamrock Supply Company advocates its employees to make similar commitments to the improvement of the community. Employees are encouraged to attend to their individual communities, to identify the needs of those communities, and to invest their time and unique resources – their knowledge, experience, and moral sensibility – to find and work toward solutions to these needs.
Shamrock Supply Company’s employees significantly reinforce our corporate philanthropy through their own generosity. The heart of the our community relations program is a corps of volunteers called the ‘‘Green Cross” that provides opportunities for Shamrock Supply Company employees to personally participate in the betterment of the communities in which they live and work. Green Cross team members give selflessly of their personal time and energies, contributing hundreds of hours each year to a wide variety of charitable causes. These employees roll up their sleeves to refurbish at-risk neighborhoods, help save lives by donating to blood drives, and go the extra mile in walk-a-thons to raise funds for breast cancer research.
