Logotech-4-Good February Announcement
Logotech-4-Good finalizes first donation, awards promotional materials to animal rescue group
Logotech-4-Good, the new grant program offered by Illinois-based Logotech, was able to finalize its first donation this week. Staff delivered PopSockets to an area early child education program.
The company, which provides promotional items to clients around the world, is now working on its next donation.
Logotech-4-Good, launched in December, offers up to $500 in free, branded promotional products to schools, educational and non-profit organizations. Applications to the program are submitted online, and company employees select a winner each month.
With dozens of applications in just a few months, the need for the program seems evident. So often, we'd either have requests for donations or schools and nonprofits who just couldn't finalize their orders. While we wanted to help, we didn't have a mechanism to do so until we developed this program, said Nikita Nersesov, Logotech co-founder.
The Elgin Partnership for Early Learning, based in Elgin, Illinois, helps prepare area children for Kindergarten. Give Me Five promotes the five things parents and caregivers should do with them each day: talk, play, read, do and write. Each of those actions are on one finger of a handprint with Give Me Five in the center.
Elgin School District U46, the state's second-largest school district (outside Chicago), is also 50 percent Hispanic. Working with its manufacturing partner, Logotech was able to split the PopSocket order. Half were printed in English and half in Spanish.
Dixie Adoptables named February 2019 Logotech-4-Good Grant Recipient
Dixie Adoptables, our next grant recipient, reached out to us earlier this year looking for items promoting the rescue's work.
The rescue was founded by Matthew and Jessica Roberts after they returned to their hometown and saw the number of strays abandoned in the region. Dixie Adoptables received nonprofit status in 2008. In 2016, they took over operations of the town's municipal shelter the only such facility in a three-county area. Their contract is equivalent to one yearly staff salary to rescue — and care for — hundreds of animals.
In the three years since we took over shelter operations, we have found homes for over 2,500 animals that would have otherwise been euthanized, the Roberts' said in their application.
Dixie Adoptables almost entirely dependent on donations and grants. Matt works full time and Jessica volunteers her full-time work for the rescue.
For more information or to apply, go to Logotech-4-Good.
