United Stationers/ LagasseSweet donates $2,500 to Humanitarian Service Project to help needy senior citizens
United Stationers. Inc. and LagasseSweet, both located in Carol Stream, IL, donated $2,500 to the Humanitarian Service Project (HSP) to help needy senior citizens in DuPage and Kane counties. The companies' associates raised the funds through payroll deductions to United Stationers/LagasseSweet's charitable foundation. The foundation selected the Humanitarian Service Project as one of its designated charities for 2011. The companies have assisted the Carol Stream-based non-profit since 2007 by donating paper products, conducting giving-trees, food and school supply drives, as well as by furnishing volunteers to help with the charity's various programs.
United Stationers Inc. is a leading North American wholesale distributor of business products, with 2010 net sales of $4.8 billion. The company stocks approximately 100,000 items from over 1,000 manufacturers. This includes a broad and deep selection of technology products, office products, office furniture, janitorial and breakroom supplies, and industrial products sold by its customer base of commercial and contract business products dealers and industrial product distributors.
LagasseSweet, a subsidiary of United Stationers, is a wholesale distributor of items serving the janitorial-sanitation, paper and food service industries. They feature the industry's definitive catalog, a tool that enables Distributor customers to promote their products and grow their businesses. Lagasse has also pioneered many distribution efficiency and cost-to-serve initiatives that have driven savings and economic benefit for customers and vendors.
The donation will be used buy an entire month's worth of fresh fruits and vegetables that are delivered to each of the 120 senior citizens in the charity's Senior Citizens Project. The low-income seniors receive monthly deliveries of 90 lbs. of groceries that include a variety of frozen meats, non-perishable foods, personal care items and paper products, in addition to the fresh fruits and vegetables. The seniors also receive a monthly “Secret Pal” gift and Holiday Meal. Karole Kettering, Executive Director of the HSP said, “United Stationers and LagasseSweet have been true partners for all of our programs that help needy seniors, children and families in our community. Whenever we have called with a specific need, they have responded generously. This latest donation will go a long way towards alleviating the hunger and stress that these impoverished seniors face on a daily basis.”
Contact United Stationers: www.unitedstationers.com
Contact LagasseSweet: www.lagasseinc.com
Contact the Humanitarian Service Project: hsp@humanitarianservice.org.
HSP's website: www.humanitarianservice.org and the HSP's blog: humanitarianserviceproject.blogspot.com.
About The Humanitarian Service Project:
HSP has been given the highest Four Star rating by Charity Navigator for the sixth consecutive year. HSP's mission is to alleviate the pain and suffering that poverty creates in seniors and children living in DuPage and Kane counties, Illinois. Last year during the Christmas Offering Project, 1,264 children received gifts and 150 impoverished families received three weeks of groceries, frozen meats, and fresh produce. With the Senior Citizen Project, HSP provides a monthly food delivery and secret pal gifts to 120 low-income seniors. The Children's Birthday Project reaches the youngest underprivileged, making birthdays and Christmas truly memorable occasions for 800 children. Feed the Kids provides 100 low-income families with groceries and fresh produce. HSP conducts an annual school supplies drive that benefited a total of 5,200 children by giving supplies to the DuPage Back to School Fair and directly to schools and individual children.