Vivint Gives Back

Vivint Gives Back is Vivint, Inc.'s 501(c)3 charitable organization for community outreach, and was created in 2008.[1] In 2013 Vivint Gives Back was managed by Holly Mero-Bench.[2]

In 2013, "'Vivint Gives Back'" raised $222,000 for Vivint’s sixth annual Sub for Santa program has raised $222,000 to buy gifts for more than 3,000 children across North America.[3]

In 2012, Vivint Gives Back had nearly 4,725 Vivint employees volunteer 23,000 person-hours to help needy families, and Vivint Gives Back's $1.768 million charity fund from 2012 was distributed to 20 different international relief organizations, and worked on 119 projects.[4][5] Those projects included service in Ghana in conjunction with Globe Aware to help build water-filtration systems; in Guatemala to help build a hospital that would serve 25,000 villagers in the country; in Tijuana, Mexico, to build an orphanage and a home for people in need; for Feed My Starving Children organization to make enough meals to feed 575 hungry children for an entire year; for Habitat for Humanity to build homes for people in need; for Global Poverty Project to help their many efforts to alleviate suffering and eliminate extreme poverty around the world; for Ronald McDonald House Charities to serve meals to needy families;[6] for Special Olympics Utah to service hosting activities for the kids; for the CURED campaign for research on a childhood disease;[7] and for Sub for Santa to share Christmas with 2,300 kids around the U.S. and Canada:

In 2011 Vivint Gives Back donated over $1.25 Million and 7,500 person-hours of service, and in early 2012 was named the Corporate Volunteer Program of the Year for 2011,[8][9] and Mission 500, a charitable organization engaging security professionals to sponsor needy children through the World Vision organization, announced Vivint Gives Back as the winner of its annual Humanitarian and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) award for 2011.[10]

In 2010 Vivint Gives Back was the largest single contributor of blood donations in Provo, Utah.[11] and it is a regular contributor for blood donations.

In 2008, ninety Vivint employees went to Galveston, Texas to aid Hurricane Ike victims.[12]

References

  1. ↑ http://dev.utahbusiness.com/articles/view/vivint_wins_2012_american_business_award
  2. ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/holly-mero-bench/38/95b/846
  3. ↑ http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/vivint-gives-back-raises-222k-children-s-gifts
  4. ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130103005504/en/Vivint-%E2%80%98Year-Service%E2%80%99-Initiative-Raises-1.5-Million
  5. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/vivint-gives-back-initiative-raises-130000585.html
  6. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5_kK7YEg_Q
  7. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKvovbXOgB8
  8. ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120418005558/en/Vivint-Named-2012-Corporate-Volunteer-Program-Year
  9. ↑ http://us.generation-nt.com/1-25-million-awarded-vivint-gives-back-project-press-3112931.html
  10. ↑ http://www.securityinfowatch.com/press_release/10635897/mission-500-announces-2012-corporate-social-responsibility-and-humanitarian-award-winners
  11. ↑ http://blog.vivint.com/2011/02/vivint-gives-back-by-giving-blood/
  12. ↑ Sam Scorup - Daily Herald (2008-09-27). "APX Alarm employees sent to aid Ike survivors". Heraldextra.com. Retrieved 2011-06-15.