KIMMINS AND THE COMMUNITY
We at Kimmins believe that it is our responsibility to support our community. Over the years, Kimmins has been vigorously involved in helping the disadvantaged and less fortunate by actively supporting many community organizations. Following are some ways in which Kimmins is working to meet the obligation.
2nd Annual Kimmins Charity Golf Tournament
Kimmins Contracting Corp. is holding its Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 15th at the River Hills Country Club in Valrico, FL. All proceeds will benefit the MacDill Air Force Base Family Member Programs. View the flyer by clicking on this link.
Lake Walk for Wishes
To benefit the Make a Wish Foundation of Central and Northern Florida
Lake County Florida – Venetian Gardens, Leesburg
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Join us for the second annual Lake Walk for Wishes presented by Kimmins Contracting Corporation at Venetian Gardens in Leesburg, FL. Registration fee is $10 per walker. There are also various corporate sponsorship levels available. Individual walkers who raise $50 or more will receive an event t-shirt. Additional prizes will be available for various fundraising levels. To get more information or to register, please click on the link to download the form click here. We hope you will join us in taking steps toward making wishes come true.
1st Annual Kimmins Charity Golf Tournament
Kimmins Contracting Corp. held its Inaugural Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 13 th at the River Hills Country Club in Valrico, FL. A total of 21 foursomes teed up for a round of golf to support the Junior Women of Plant City‘s “Shoe Project” that provides local schools with new shoes for children in need. A big, grateful thank you goes out to our corporate sponsors who made the event such a success: CCC Group, U Brothers, Excal Enterprises, Fleet Pride, Callaghan Tires and Cumberland Technologies. Mr. Park Newton from Excal Enterprises won the top Corporate Sponsor and U Brothers won the tournament overall. Congratulations!
Kimmins Foundation
The Foundation's home is located in Tampa's Ybor City, an inner city urban area. The Kimmins Foundation is actively involved in the community, sponsoring many activities for the local youth. One of the most remarkable programs is the Family Literacy Center, a partnership with the Hillsborough County School System in which adults have access to education and other useful services. The program offers participants Adult Basic Education (ABE), GED Training, and English as a Second Language (ESOL) for the many non-native, English speaking residents in the area. In addition, adults who have children are taught parenting skills and offered psycho/social services, including early childhood development programs. Students who have children between the ages of three months and five years are encouraged to bring their children to our educational child-care program. Please visit www.kimmins.org for more information.
Kimmins Receives Head Start Honor
In the fall of 2003 Kimmins Corp. was the honored recipient of the first Sam Gibbons Corporate Community Award at the Hillsborough Head Start Community Foundation’s annual fundraising breakfast. The award is named after Sen. Gibbons in tribute to his initiative and commitment to the Head Start program from its inception. Mr. Francis Williams accepted the award on behalf of the Kimmins team.
Foundation Student Wins Times Scholarship
The Kimmins Terrier Foundation is proud and honored to announce that its scholarship student graduating from Berkeley Preparatory School, Shakira Carter, has been selected as 1 of 4 recipients of the St. Petersburg Times Collegiate Scholarships entitling her to $60,000 over the next 4 years at the college of her choice. The scholarship targets high school seniors with academic promise who have overcome significant obstacles in their lives and have proven themselves to be outstanding, well-rounded individuals.
From her very first days at Berkely, Shakira stood out as an enthusiastic classmate, student, athlete, and dramatic artist. She is known throughout the campus as a self described "people person" who has genuinely taken advantage of all the school had to offer. One of the accomplishments she is most proud of during her years at Berkely is the establishment of Diversity Awareness Day, an initiative that developed into a day-long conference where the students were offered guest lecture and workshops designed to bring about dialog and raise awareness on topics of social behavior. With such an outstanding portfolio of achievements it came as no suprise that Shakira was accepted at every college she applied to. She has given a commitment to her first choice, Northwestern University, and plans to pursue a double major in Theatre and Psychology.
We wish her the best of luck and continued success in her academic career.
Kimmins Assists Academy of Holy Names Expansion
A multi-million dollar expansion project took one step closer to completion with the donation of demolition services by Kimmins in Spring 2004. Over the span of 2 weeks, Kimmins took down 5 individual 1-story buildings on the schools original campus off of MacDill Ave. in South Tampa. The cleared land will make way for new classes rooms and expanded athletic fields. All of the scrap and concrete materials from the project was recycled and reused.
Kimmins is proud to support many charitable and civic organizations all over the state of Florida. Among them are:
Junior League of Tampa
Founded in 1926, the Junior League of Tampa, Inc. is an organization of over 1600 women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
For more information on the Junior League please visit: www.jltampa.org
America’s Second Harvest of Tampa Bay
America’s Second Harvest is a food bank network, servicing 10 counties in west central Florida. Since its inception in 1982, they have processed and distributed 70 million pounds of safe and nutritious surplus food to those who need it most.
Through their combined efforts with over 300 partner charities and churches, America’s Second Harvest of Tampa Bay currently distributes enough food in a single week to provide over 50,000 meals.
2004 marks the 10 th anniversary of the annual Empty Bowls Thanksgiving Luncheon held on November 18 th at Lykes Gaslight Park in downtown Tampa. This is one of the organization’s main events and has become a very special part of the holiday season for the community. For more information on the Empty Bowls Luncheon please visit: www.a2htampabay.org
Child Abuse Council
The Child Abuse Council is a private, non-profit agency that provides consultation, education and direct service programs to help children and strengthen families in Hillsborough County. Their mission is to prevent abuse before it occurs, stop abuse that is occurring, and rebuild the child and family after abuse has occurred. In 2002 the agency reached over 48,000 children and adults through its programs.
The Champions for Children breakfast is an annual fundraiser and appreciation event designed to thank the Councils many sponsors and raise awareness for the agency and its programs throughout the community.
For more information on the Child Abuse Council please visit: www.child-abuse-council.org
The Florida Prostate Cancer Network
The Florida Prostate Cancer Network’s mission is to advocate the prevention of prostate cancer deaths in Florida by supporting research, promoting legislation, and offering information on early detection, support organizations and current treatment options.
The Network’s fundraiser, “A Celebration of Hope Gala”, is an annual event held in the fall to honor those in the community who have been outstanding supporters in the fight against prostate cancer. The 2004 General Schwarzkopf Pioneer in Prostate Cancer Award recipient is Mr. Al Austin.
To learn more about the Network please visit:
http://www.charityadvantage.com/www.florida-prostate-cancer.org/Page1.asp
The Moffitt Foundation
The Moffitt Cancer Center Foundation was founded in 1994 with the sole purpose of supporting the three major areas of concentration at the Cancer Center - Cancer Research, Patient Care and Education. The center is a part of the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus medical complex.
Keys for the Cure takes place each fall in Saks Fifth Avenue stores across the county to benefit organizations involved with the treatment and research of woman’s reproductive cancer’s. During the four-day event, Saks in Tampa donates 2% of sales to benefit breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancer research at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.
To learn more about the Moffitt Cancer Center please visit: www.moffittcancercenter.org
St. Anthony’s Health Care Foundation, Inc.
Kimmins Contracting Corp is a proud 2004 sponsor of St. Anthony’s Health Care Foundation, Inc. of St. Petersburg, FL annual October Fishing Tournament fundraiser. The event raises money and awareness for St. Anthony’s Hospital cancer care center.
St. John’s Greek Orthodox Day School
Kimmins Contracting Corp served as the title sponsor for the 3 rd Annual Sporting Clays Celebrity Challenge for St. John’s Greek Orthodox Day School in Tampa. The event was held on October 23 rd, 2004 and raised over $14,000.00 for new classroom buildings. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf served as the honorary chair.