Sheehy Auto Stores Director of Marketing Lauren Culbertson views the major undertaking required to pull off the company’s annual food drive as being all in a day's work.
“Community involvement is very important to us and this is one of our biggest highlights,” Culbertson told Mega Dealer News. “We all look forward to this time of year.”
Through much of the month of October company stores in Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia, Hagerstown, Maryland and Baltimore, Maryland will all be collecting canned goods and nonperishable food as a part of the Fall Food Drive to benefit food banks serving each community.
“We have employees and customers alike donate can foods and perishable items that we work with local charities to donate,” she said. "We make sure all the donations are impacting the backyards of the dealerships and that each one of them gets to choose what charity they deal with, what food bank they donate to.”
And when it comes to the kinds of charitable endeavors the family-owned business in operation for more than the last five decades prides itself on, the effort doesn’t end there.
The company also stages a benefit where the proceeds benefit the American Heart Association, an annual toy drive and year-end giving program where each dealership picks the nonprofit they want to give to.
Culbertson admits with everything currently going on with the COVID-19 crisis, this year has proven a bit more challenging than others. But as always, Sheehy staffers have risen to the occasion.
“We asked the dealerships to come up with creative ideas for how we might be able to help even more given the higher demand and one of them they came up with was getting the food from one place to another by donating vehicles for deliveries,” she said. “Plus, we moved the food drive up from its normal November time because we know with the pandemic kids are home from school and more families are struggling.”
Next up, is the company’s annual toy drive, which kicks off just days after the food drive finishes.
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