Here's our monthly roundup of some of the charitable works and donations by companies in the material handling and logistics space.
- Logistics software company QuestaWeb raised more than $25,000 in donations to help find a cure for pancreatic cancer. The company raised the money for the City of Hope charity following a digital fundraising campaign led by company COO Felix Pekar, whose wife was recently diagnosed with the disease.
- Ceva Logistics is donating space on its trucks to deliver cash donations to the 5cent campaign, an Australian charity that aids impoverished families by collecting five-cent coins from donors. The program, which is organized by Y Generation Against Poverty (Y Gap), collected more than $305,000 in its first three years, in the form of nearly 8 million Australian nickels.
- The agency-based freight forwarder Icat Logistics Inc. has donated its transportation services to help a Haitian orphanage recover from the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country. Working with the nonprofit group Rendez-vous: Haiti, the logistics company helped deliver a donated 2005 Chevrolet Silverado truck to Port-au-Prince to provide transportation for the facility's 96 elementary school-aged children.
- Global Shop Solutions, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software developer, donated its design expertise to help provide bicycles for a group of abused children aged five to 18. The company's consultants wrapped up their annual training week by forming teams to assemble and donate a number of BMX and mountain bicycles to the nonprofit group Children's Safe Harbor.
