Hunt Military Communities Hosts Helping Hands Week
25 September 2019
FORT LEE, Va., Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fort Lee Family Housing once again participated in Hunt's Helping Hands Week by supporting the Rebuilding Together Richmond organization. This week of serving is an annual event sponsored by Hunt Military Communities and includes hundreds of employees in over 40 locations who volunteer their time and energy to support various local organizations throughout the country.
On Friday, September 20, 2019, Fort Lee Family Housing employees volunteered by painting the exterior of a home and planting trees and shrubs for a family in need. Rebuilding Together Richmond is a regional affiliate of the national Rebuilding Together organization. They help people and neighborhoods in need by bringing together nearly 1,000 volunteers annually to repair homes and community spaces in Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Petersburg, and Hopewell. As a proven leader in the community for over 27 years, they have the skills and resources to provide critical home repair services and safety modifications to those who need it the most. They serve nearly 80 homeowners each year and impact hundreds more with their community space projects, thanks to the help of our volunteers and skilled laborers. (rebuildingtogetherrichmond.org)
Hunt's Helping Hands Week is about using employees' time, energy and skills for an experience that helps to create a strong team spirit, while at the same time helping support critical community organizations. Employees unanimously agree – this is an immensely rewarding experience.
About Hunt Military Communities
Hunt's Military Communities division is a 50-year partnership created between the Department of Defense and Hunt through the Military Housing Privatization Act. As part of the partnership, Hunt owns approximately 52,000 units spread across more than 40 military installations on Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Army installations and is the largest privatized military housing developer in the nation.
About Hunt
Founded in 1947, Hunt Companies, Inc. (Hunt) is today a holding company that invests in business focused in the real estate and infrastructure markets. The activities of Hunt's affiliates and investees include investment management, mortgage banking, direct lending, loan servicing, asset management, property management, development, construction, consulting and advisory.
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Hunt Military Communities Hosts Helping Hands Week
17 December 2018
EL PASO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hunt Military Communities’ (HMC) employees once again joined forces to help support their local communities by participating in Hunt’s annual Helping Hands Day. In all, more than 40 organizations, located throughout the United States, were supported by hundreds of HMC employees who closed down their offices for part of the day to volunteer their time and energy in support of local organizations.
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Hunt employees from Cottonwood Springs work on painting touch ups at the Rescue Mission of El Paso in Texas. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Helping Hands Day is just one way that our employees can give back to their local communities,” stated John Ehle, President of HMC. “We encourage all of our employees to participate in this day and the majority of our staff not only do so, but come back enriched by the experience. It’s a day many look forward to each year.”
Hunt’s Helping Hands Day is about utilizing employees’ time, energy and skills for an experience that helps to create a strong team spirit, while at the same time helping support critical community organizations.
This year, some of the organizations that benefitted from Helping Hands
Day included:
Ronald McDonald House, Partners in Housing, Rescue
Mission of El Paso, Washington Animal Control, Children’s Cancer Fund,
and various local food banks and homeless shelters.
“Thank you so much for the volunteers who served at the South Patrick Chapel,” stated Lt Col, Glenn Bright, Wing Chaplain, Patrick AFB. “They all were amazing as they cleaned and organized an entire education building and chapel. The building is so much more welcoming and such a better place to grow spiritually.”
Hunt Helping Hands Day is part of the Hunt Heroes Foundation, Hunt Military Communities’ non-profit organization.
About Hunt Military Communities
Hunt’s Military Communities division is a 50-year partnership created between the Department of Defense and Hunt through the Military Housing Privatization Act. As part of the partnership, Hunt owns approximately 52,000 units spread across more than 40 military installations on Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Army installations and is the largest privatized military housing developer in the nation.
About Hunt Heroes Foundation
Formed in 2018, the Hunt Heroes Foundation proudly serves military families, partners and communities through opportunities and ideas generated by our people and partnerships. Together, the HHF will discover new ways to ensure we help bring a positive change to the communities in which we live and work.
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