Florida-based Heritage Insurance is teaming up with the Salvation Army to provide charitable relief during the holiday season.
Heritage, located in the Tampa area, is once again joining the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. Angel Tree provides Christmas gifts to needy children and seniors around the country, including hundreds living in Florida’s Gulf Coast region.
Once a child or senior has been registered and accepted as an “Angel” with the Salvation Army, the charity helps fulfill their wish list by enlisting donors in the community who purchase gifts such as new clothing and toys. Those gifts are then given to families to be placed under their Christmas trees.
This year, the employees of Heritage Insurance and its sister company Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. are adding some branches to the Angel Tree. The company announced their workers are supporting 320 Angels.
The employees will help deliver the gifts during the Christmas season across the companies’ national footprints, including the Gulf Coast.
For Heritage, this isn’t the first time workers have participated in the program — the charitable drive has been part of the company culture for much of the past decade.
Heritage employees have helped a total of 2,560 Angels since 2017.
“Supporting the Salvation Army and its Angel Tree Program are just one way that our team gives back to the community,” said Heritage CEO Ernie Garateix. “I’m proud of the generosity that our employees display when participating in this Christmas program over the last 10 years. Kindness and sacrificial giving are the very spirit of Christmas.”
There is a screening process by the Salvation Army to decide who Angel program eligibility. The Salvation Army provides applications that ask for various identification and financial disclosures before someone is included in the Angel Tree program.
