CULTURE & SERVICE
GMG is dedicated to supporting our local communities through service and donations to various charitable organizations in our local cities. Below are a few of the initiatives our employees have been involved with in recent months.
Nine GMG'ers from the Baltimore and New York offices spent the evening preparing dinner and dessert for the families staying at the Ronald McDonald house in Baltimore, Maryland. The Ronald McDonald House provides a home-away-from-home for seriously ill children and their families who need to come to Baltimore for treatment at one of the city's many hospitals. The team enjoyed connecting with children and their families and plan on making this an annual event.
There's a small, hairy solution to the men's health crisis. It's sitting under your nose.
The men of Gartland & Mellina Group grew their "Mo" to raise money and awareness to mens health, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention.
Check out the Mos today!
Bowery Mission
In support of the Bowery Mission volunteers from Gartland & Mellina Group helped prepare, serve, and clean-up dinner alongside the Bowery staff and resident students. Serving more than 900 meals per day to poor and homeless men, women, and children and most recently, the unemployed, the Bowery is sometimes referred to as the busiest "restaurant" in New York City.
Twigs & Swigs
Gartland & Mellina Group resotred tree beds in the South Bronx along with the New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a local non-profit that restores and beautifies New York City's five boroughs. NYRP focuses its efforts on the most densely populated and least green neighborhoods, bringing private funds to areas that lack municipal support.
Operation Backpack 2018
Gartland & Mellina Group has organized an annual company-wide event to support Operation Backpack for the last four years. Operation Backpack is a city-wide campaign sponsored by Volunteers of America to benefit NYC's homeless children. The goal is to give every child living in a shelter a new, full backpack with grade-specific school supplies so they can go back to school with the tools they need to succeed. This year, GMG sponsored a "Build-a-Backpack" night at our company headquarters to pack and donate children's backpacks with school supplies.
God's Love We Deliver
Gartland & Mellina Group employees volunteered and assisted with the preparation and delivery of hundreds of home cooked meals for God's Love We Deliver, which is the New York metropolitan area's leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people living with severe illnesses.
Wall Street Run and Heart Walk 2018
Gartland & Mellina Group has proudly participated in the Wall Street Run and Heart Walk for the past several years in New York City. To promote and spread awareness, GMG employees have dedicated both their time and money to support the fight against heart disease and stroke.
Urban Strategies: GMG Diaper and Toiletries Drive 2018
Gartland & Mellina Group kicked off a Diaper and Toiletry Drive to collect and donate basic necessities to Urban Strategies, a family shelter in Brooklyn providing assistance and services for 19 units consisting of young families who have fallen on difficult times and require assistance to get their lives back on track. Our team was able to exceed the company goal and donated over 14,000 items in total to all 19 families at the shelter, including laptops and a printer so residents can conduct housing and job searches.
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