{"id":66,"date":"2019-02-19T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8009\/stories\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:49:12","slug":"a-career-focused-on-community-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neforestrydistribution.com\/stories\/a-career-focused-on-community-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"A Career Focused on Community Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New England Forestry’s Kim Sartor is the face of our community giving efforts, ensuring we take an active role in doing good for the communities where we live and work, including volunteering, donating blood and making financial donations to important causes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ask Kim Sartor\u2019s boss, and he\u2019ll tell you she is the \u201cglue\u201d that connects New England Forestry to its communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Bell says Kim, New England Forestry\u2019s Community Affairs Manager, epitomizes community giving. Her words and behaviors each day reflect how much she cares for her colleagues, New England Forestry and the communities where we live and work. In addition to supporting the Public Affairs department, she manages the New England Forestry Community Fund, juggling requests and energizing others to volunteer.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mike, who is New England Forestry\u2019s Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications, recognized Kim\u2019s can-do attitude when he asked her to join his team. Her big heart and innate sense of compassion made her the ideal person for the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I could clone her, I would,\u201d jokes her coworker Dan Roach, director of Public Affairs. \u201cShe always responds cheerfully and if she doesn\u2019t know how to do something, she will figure it out and put in the time it takes to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim\u2019s typical week consists of overseeing grant applications, working on sponsorship opportunities and managing the Community Fund. Kim forecasts, budgets, screens applications and fields calls about how to spend dollars set aside for community investment. Her talent also includes connecting New England Forestry employees\u2019 time, talent and energy with volunteer opportunities that match their strengths. Even outside of the typical work week, Kim often spends her evenings and weekends at company-sponsored events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work spans the United States, from the annual grant breakfast supporting the work of non-profit agencies in the Pacific Northwest to the weekend she spends each year volunteering at the Mail Carriers\u2019 Food Drive in Fernandina Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cParticipation is contagious when Kim is involved,\u201d says Mike. \u201cThere is a blood mobile that has been coming to our offices for years. Kim started that!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim\u2019s passion for the blood drive stems from her own experience: a blood transfusion that saved her life years ago. She says New England Forestry\u2019s bimonthly blood drives have the potential to save dozens of lives per-year. Kim doesn\u2019t just enlist employees to support the blood drive, she also distributes flyers to neighbors, such as the FSCJ Nassau Campus, Nassau County Courthouse, Nassau County Sheriff’s office and Wildlight Elementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of Kim, New England Forestry volunteers read to elementary students during the school year through the Family Support Services reading program, Doggone Good Readers, which encourages public library usage and reading while improving literacy for children. Kim also attends monthly Board meetings for the Amelia Island Book Festival & Authors in Schools Literacy Program, where she assists with writing and reading workshops for older students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kim also oversees a tradition at New England Forestry to support the\u00a0Angel Tree toy drive<\/a>\u00a0in which foster children in Nassau County, FL, receive gifts during the holidays when they haven\u2019t traditionally received much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur 150 employees immediately said ‘yes’ to step up and team up to grant wishes for these children during the holidays. Last year we supplied more than 350 gifts for needy children,\u201d Kim says. \u201cAll I am is the facilitator. I\u2019m just very honored to be able to do what I do. God has given me a shining light to get people motivated to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many school-age children in Nassau County experience food insecurity, not knowing if they will have food on the weekends. Kim organized New England Forestry employees to help restock a food pantry and assemble hundreds of nutritious meal packs for children through Barnabas Nassau, a multi-faceted crisis assistance for families. Kim, who grew up in a blended family with 9 children, says, \u201cWe could have used programs like Barnabas, but I don\u2019t recall there being services like this when I was young.\u201d Robert Peck, Barnabas\u2019s Food Program Manager, says he appreciates that New England Forestry employees not only lend a hand, but show up organized, efficient and won\u2019t leave until the job is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Kim doesn\u2019t dictate where dollars are spent in other locations in the New England Forestry footprint, she ensures the money is well-placed, meaningful and directly impactful. \u201cI\u2019m proud to know that the money we\u2019re giving away is staying in the communities where we work and making a difference,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees often see updates from Kim on New England Forestry\u2019s internal social network, The Landing. She shares pictures from all over the country of volunteer events to let all employees know what agencies and programs New England Forestry supports. Kim works with coworkers to help children through education and youth development programs such as book festivals, literacy, after-school programs, volunteer mentor programs and summer camps. She finds programs that help teachers through conservation training workshops and enhanced educational opportunities in the various states New England Forestry is in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim says she learned from her family to follow her passion, and that\u2019s just what her job at New England Forestry enables her to do. She loves seeing how that work reflects on those it impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen people cry learning about how invested our company is in their community,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s inspiring and humbling to see our company dollars at work in these communities. There\u2019s such pride in knowing that New England Forestry cares.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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