Flexsteel employees on cleanup duty at the Victory Junction camp for ailing youngsters.
Staffers helped four local charities ahead of Fall Market
YSN Staff
High Point Market is a time to bring teams together, celebrate the home furnishings industry and grow business.
However, BrandSource furniture partner Flexsteel decided to take it further by encouraging its employees to give back to the show’s North Carolina community. To that end, attending staffers participated in four volunteer events held by local organizations on the eve of this week’s trade extravaganza.
Victory Junction
Victory Junction is a year-round camp facility for children with severe illnesses and chronic medical conditions. Founded 20 years ago by Kyle Petty and his family in honor of his son Adam, Victory Junction provides life-changing camping experiences.
Flexsteel employees spent an afternoon working on the campgrounds, maintaining facilities for the campers and animals. Their tasks included cleaning the barn, refreshing bedding for resident goats and horses and tidying the surrounding outdoor areas.
Helping Hands Food Pantry
Helping Hands is one of the two largest food pantries in the Greater High Point area. It strengthens families within the community by providing resources like food that enable residents to attain self-sufficiency. At the facility, Flexsteel volunteers packed and distributed food for over 100 families and offered community members support and essential resources.
Keep High Point Beautiful
The Keep High Point Beautiful public service strives to bring the goals of the national Keep America Beautiful organization home to the local community. The group believes in making a difference while protecting the environment. Flexsteel supported this effort by sending several employees to participate in a roadside cleanup, collecting nine bags of trash from Main Street.
American Red Cross
During Market, Flexsteel hosted a blood drive in its IHFC showroom and urged retail and vendor guests and their employees to donate blood when they could. The company ultimately collected enough donations to save up to 87 lives.
“I appreciate that Flexsteel has leadership that encourages employees to take the time to give back — and even more so that an overwhelming number of colleagues genuinely want to,” said Laura Smeltz, Flexsteel’s senior marketing manager and coordinator of the volunteer activities. “What better way for us to foster our culture and volunteer than to do it in High Point, the place that centralizes our industry.”
Flexsteel said it plans to continue these efforts at future markets and year-round in the company’s headquarters town of Dubuque, Iowa, and in the communities of its remote employees.
