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 for needy children and senior adults around the country on a national level. The Salvation Army also helps hundreds of those kids and seniors in Florida’s Gulf Coast area specifically.
Once a child or senior has been registered and accepted as an “angel” with the Salvation Army, the charity helps fulfil their wish list by enlisting donors in the community who purchase gifts such as new clothing and toys. Those gifts are then distributed to the families while placing the items under the Christmas trees.
Heritage employees have helped climb that Angel Tree this year. The company announced their workers are supporting 320 Angels. The employees of Heritage Insurance and its sister company Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. have stepped up to make contributions to the Salvation Army in support of the program.
Those employees will help deliver the gifts during the Christmas season both in the Gulf Coast area of Florida and nationwide. For Heritage, this isn’t the first time those workers have participated in the program and the charitable drive has been part of the company for much of the past decade.
Heritage employees have helped a total of 2,560 “Angels.” That figure involves Heritage contributions to the Salvation Army going back to 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 becomes eligible in the Angel program. The Salvation Army provides applications that ask for various identification and financial disclosures before someone is included in the Angel Tree program.
