AMR has long been a company focused on contributing to the community in meaningful, lasting ways. We dedicate significant company resources toward ensuring employee community involvement, and encourage our employees to contribute individually and as a group:
- AMR has a community involvement task force (comprised of company employees) that plans at least one formal fundraising initiatives each calendar quarter and facilitates AMR’s ongoing volunteer and fundraising initiatives for other local charities.
- AMR encourages employees to perform volunteer work, serve on non-profit boards, and participate as members of non-profit associations that engage in community stewardship. We make an effort to acknowledge and honor their individual and combined efforts during AMR company events and meetings.
- AMR executives lead by example, as a means of encouraging community involvement among employees. AMR’s owners, John and Shirley Ruffin, donate annually in cash and company services to local non-profit organizations throughout the community and region.
Some examples of community and volunteer activities in which AMR Management Services and its employees have engaged include:
- Fundraising, American Diabetes Association — Throughout the spring 2011 and culminating at the June 3 "Step Out for Diabetes" event, AMR
employees engaged in a series of creative and fun initiatives to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Employees, their families and friends made donations to participate in delicious employee-made breakfasts, lunches and treats. Other activities to raise money included “flip flop Fridays,” casual attire days, and an auction of fun and funky donated items. In total, the AMR team raised $2,760 for the ADA. - Food Drive and Fundraising, God's Pantry — In February 2011, AMR and its employees donated 98 pounds of food and $145 in cash to God's Pantry, a charitable organization that collects and distributes donated food to needy families and individuals across central and eastern Kentucky.
- Fundraising and Shopping, Toys for Tots and Salvation Army Angel Tree — AMR and its employees have an ongoing commitment to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program, which collects toys for needy children. AMR employees have donated hundreds of toys over the years. This past holiday season, AMR employees also selected children from the Salvation Army Angel Tree and provided holiday gifts to children in need.
- Fundraising, March of Dimes – AMR and its employees raised more than $2,500 for the 2010 March of Dimes campaign, as part of our multi-year commitment to the March of Dimes. Our total contribution over the years exceeds $23,000. The AMR staff has raised funds for the March of Dimes through an internal company-wide auction, the purchase of casual attire days and employee participation in the Walk for Babies.
- AMR and its employees collect travel-size toiletries for the Hope Center, a local homeless shelter, on an ongoing basis.
- AMR and its employees have collected tabs from soda cans to support the Ronald McDonald house, which provides a “home away from home” for families of seriously ill children undergoing treatment in the area.
- AMR has made cash donations to the Lexington Police Shop with a Cop Program, the Special Olympics, the Children’s Wish Foundation, UK Children’s Hospital and the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation.
- AMR employees have an ongoing recycling program in AMR’s workspace within the Chase Building in downtown Lexington.
- AMR has sponsored youth activities and programs, including the Lafayette High School Band and a Southwest Lexington PONY youth baseball team.
