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Monitronics Gives Back During the Holidays

Beginning in October and continuing through Christmas, Monitronics participated in multiple charitable projects this year.

  • We kicked off the holiday season with a food drive—which ran from October to mid-November—to support a local food bank. This even sparks big competition within the company every year and always proves fruitful for our cause. This year, the 750 employees contributed more than $16,000 in food and cash donations—which fed a lot of needy folks.
  • The employees pitched in to provide gifts for children at a local elementary school, where many of the families are at or below the poverty level. Throughout the first half of December, teams within Monitronics “adopted” grade levels. Each team worked hard to bring in as many toys as possible for their children.
  • Students from Notre Dame School, a local school for children with mental disabilities, made their annual visit to Monitronics on November 16. Santa greeted the children when they arrived at Monitronics and the kids met their “Buddy” for the day. The children toured the departments that were decked out in the Gingerbread House theme chosen by the Holiday Committee. The tour concluded with a catered lunch, carolers, and a final meeting with Santa where the kids received gifts based on their Santa List.
  • Monitronics donated gifts to Deion Sanders’ charity PTA (Prime Time Association) and on December 18 they partnered to deliver the donated gifts to local children. 

  • Additionally, the company donated $10,000 to local charities and organizations.

When asked about all of the contributions and activities, Mary Ingram, Holiday committee Chairperson says, “Monitronics and its employees are very generous, and that has not changed even in the current economy. In this year of special need, we are proud to be part of an organization that not only helps the community but also reaches out across the city to help many more.”

Monitronics Toy Drive

Each year, Monitronics employees participate in a toy drive benefiting a local school.

The children at Farmers Branch Elementary School come from families that are at or below the poverty level. In fact, 10 of the families of students are homeless this year, either living with other families or moving around. Many of the children would not receive gifts without the contributions of Monitronics employees.

Monitronics employees divided into groups and “adopted” different grade levels. From November 22 through December 13 this year, the employees contributed gifts for their grade level.

On December 15, the donated toys were lined up in the halls of the school. After 5 p.m. the parents began to arrive and choose gifts for their children.

Relayed comments to us were about how great the gifts were and how grateful the parents were that their children would have a gift to open for Christmas.

You can read about our other charitable donations and works by Monitronics this Friday when we recap our holiday giving on our blog.

Monitronics food drive breaks records

Monitronics food driveThe competition is on at Monitronics!

Every year right before the holidays, we hold an internal food drive benefiting the Metrocrest Social Services food pantry (last year’s drive raised 13,622 items, including cash converted to food. This represented a little more than 18 food items from each of our then-750 employees).

While the 2010 drive lasts a few more days, we’ve wanted to blog about the considerable donations so far–they exceed the goals of the entire company’s food drive!

Three cheers for Monitronics’ IT department. They have more than tripled our goal for food products and donated 1-1/2 times the goal for cash! That’s a lot of people who won’t go hungry this holiday season. And, sounds like it’s time for the other teams to play catch up.

Monitronics Food DriveMetrocrest provides emergency assistance and comprehensive programs to move families toward self-sufficiency; they serve residents of Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Addison, Coppell and ZIP code 75287 in Denton County. These are Monitronics’ neighbors and customers.

Monitronics says ‘fork it over’ to Salvation Army

About 20 Monitronics Monitoring Center employees made a trip to the Carr P. Collins Social Service Center in Dallas to serve food and make an important donation: about 500 pieces of knives, forks, and spoons. The donation was the result of a month-long drive at Moni and served a vital need at the Center.

“I’ve heard the phrase ‘fork it over’ before, but this gave it a whole new meaning,” said Nancy Kerley, Volunteer Coordinator, (who also happens to be a Monitronics customer!). “This is one of the best and most practical donations we have ever received–it sure makes eating soup easier!”

Director Mary Jensby explained that the Monitoring Center visited the Salvation Army in February and noticed the shortage of silverware.

“We had to wash forks before we could serve the next group of people–we recognized the shortage,” she said. “Wanting to follow our goal to give back to the community, the Central Station employees and other departments at Monitronics came through for this big donation.”

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Fork it over for charity

Meatball on forkMonitronics has a strong history of community involvement and giving to those in need. Our Central Station, in particular, has been leading the way with volunteerism with Cell Phones for Soldiers, help during a toy drive, sorting donations for the nonprofit Metrocrest, serving food at the Salvation Army, and more.

That department has started another campaign this month to help the Salvation Army again: a fork drive.

“When we were serving food, we noticed that they didn’t have enough for everyone and lunch had to be paused several times to wash them. People were waiting and we realized they needed more,” said Mary Jensby, Director of the Monitronics Central Station. “Our employees have such a history of generosity and many have extra silverware sitting at home. It seemed like a great idea.”

Each floor of the Monitronics main tower and auxiliary building has a box for forks and the drive runs through early July.