DC Velocity - June 2018

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Here’s our monthly roundup of some of the charitable works and donations by companies in the material handling and logistics space.

b Santa Fe Springs, Calif., lift truck dealer Raymond Handling Solutions held a Red Nose Day fundraiser for children living in poverty, raising $6,000 from 78 employees. To draw attention to the effort, volunteers wore the noses during the fundraising event, which benefited such groups as Oxfam, City Year, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Charity: Water, and End Polio Now.

b Raleigh, N.C.-based global trade management (GTM) software provider Amber Road held its annual “Souper Bowl” food drive to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. A total of 74 employees participated in the competition, soliciting donations, negotiating deals with local grocery stores, buying and packaging the goods, and loading pallets for the food bank pickup. In addition to the 33,201 pounds of food collected by employees, the company donated $2,500 to the food bank.

b The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Atlanta-based
transport and logistics giant UPS Inc., will award grants and
in-kind support totaling more than $16 million to nonprof-
it, non-governmental organizations and United Nations agen-
cies for humanitarian relief, community resilience, and safety
programs worldwide. Grants will go to organizations includ-
ing the American Red Cross, Care USA, National Voluntary
Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD), and the Vaccine
Alliance.
b Material handling equipment parts distributor TVH in the
Americas (TVH) held a T-shirt fundraiser for autism aware-
ness. The company’s
charitable division,
TVHCares, raised
$3,162 thanks to
employees who pur-
chased shirts and wore
them at work on April

2, World Autism Awareness Day. All proceeds went to the Autism Speaks organization.

b Employees at Cincinnati-based freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics (TQL) celebrated National Volunteer Week by participating in more than 60 volunteer projects. Employees chose their own projects and a local charity captain coordinated the activities, with teams earning a $250 grant for each nonprofit served.

Logistics gives back

Employees of the Cleveland-based freight forwarder and third-party logistics company United World Line (UWL) have their hands full managing their customers’ global freight. But most never get a chance to get down and dirty with the trucks, warehouses, ships, and terminals where all the action happens.

Earlier this year, the company rectified the situation, sending four employees—all winners of its quarterly “Supply Chain Award”— on a trip to New York. Thanks to UWL’s close partnerships with ocean carriers, employees got to spend time on a giant container vessel, including lunch with the captain and his crew in the officers’ mess. They also had a chance to ride on trucks to pick up containers from a rail ramp and test-drive forklifts at a UWL warehouse.

“In managing global freight, staff don’t often
get a chance to see or touch the movement of
goods across the supply chain,” UWL President
Duncan Wright said in a statement. “You’d be
amazed at how few have ever been on an actu-
al vessel, yet they spend long and challenging
hours making sure their customers’ cargo
remains on time and is discharged and cleared
in the ports.”
The company has already selected the next
quarterly award winners. The four honor-
ees will visit UWL’s network of warehouses,
containerships, and trucking terminals in and
around Georgia’s Port of Savannah.