"I'm all about companies that give back to the community in some way"
So are we. 5% of our net income is set aside to a rotating list of educational and charitable programs and events that nurture our community and help us to grow and learn to maintain productivity now and for future generations. Because we believe productivity leads to prosperity.
Under the Skills Up!™ umbrella Solomon Meroe Merchant Services supports educational programs, tutorials, events and camps that prepare students in under-resourced areas around the U. S. in math and science studies.
NOLA Green Roots facilitates garden training for hundreds of participants. By developing community gardens, they teach youth, low-income residents, and senior citizens how to grow fresh fruits and vegetables at a low cost. Their community gardens provide access to fresh produce and plants as well as lessons on satisfying labor needs, improving neighborhoods, building a sense of community, and connecting to the environment. They are located in New Orleans.
The International Rescue Committee’s New Roots program helps recently resettled refugees to become self-sufficient and contribute to their new home in the United States through community gardening, nutrition education and small-business farming. With training, tools and land provided by the IRC, refugees are sharing their agricultural skills and producing affordable, locally grown vegetables and fruit for their families and their neighbors. Spanning 22 U.S. cities, New Roots is an essential part of the IRC’s broader efforts in over 40 countries to help communities build a more secure and sustainable future.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries.
Modest Needs.org offers grants to low-income but generally self-sufficient households, displaced workers struggling to return to the workforce, permanently disadvantaged persons struggling to afford medical care, and small non-profit organizations. Modest Needs works to promote the self-sufficiency of the 'working poor' - the hard-working but low-income individuals and families that conventional philanthropy has otherwise forgotten.They have elected to undertake this mission because they recognize that a significant gap exists in the social service 'safety nets' of developed nations like the United States and Canada. This gap leaves low-income but generally self-sufficient individuals and families without access to small amounts of short-term, emergency assistance in favor of providing significant amounts of long-term assistance to these same individuals and families once they've fallen deeply into the cycle of poverty.