Ingram Micro Partners With Operation Jump Start to Give Back to Long Beach Schools
February 20 2014 - 5:09PM
Marketwired
Ingram Micro Partners With Operation Jump Start to Give Back to
Long Beach Schools
LONG BEACH, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 20, 2014) - Ingram Micro Inc.
(NYSE: IM), the world's largest wholesale technology distributor
and a global leader in supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle
services, partnered with local nonprofit organization Operation
Jump Start (OJS) for a charity event earlier this month to benefit
Long Beach-area schools as part of the company's North American
Executive Kickoff and Sales Meeting. The charity event took place
at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Students from OJS, which mentors underserved Long Beach youth
and helps them to graduate and go onto higher education, joined
Ingram Micro executives and sales associates for the Tuesday event.
More than 550 Ingram Micro associates and executives from across
the country worked alongside the students to assemble and decorate
classroom furniture, including 60 rocking chairs, 30 benches, and
30 bookcases, all of which were donated to Long Beach-area schools.
In addition, each Ingram Micro associate was encouraged to continue
support the Long Beach school system by donating a book from a wish
list of titles selected by the schools.
The time spent alongside the Ingram Micro team allowed the OJS
students to learn more about career and college options, and each
OJS student received a free backpack and a tote bag filled with
school supplies from Ingram Micro. Other prizes for the OJS
students, including HP Chromebooks and an iPod Shuffle, were
raffled off to the OJS students, and Ingram Micro surprised OJS
with a check for $1,000 at the event.
"Ingram Micro is a proud supporter of the local communities we
serve, and we were very happy to work with Operation Jump Start to
provide these essential items to Long Beach schools," said Paul
Bay, president, Ingram Micro North America. "We're also pleased to
be able to give back to the Operation Jump Start students, who work
hard to reach their full potential. We understand that our future
success as a business is tied to the education of young students
such as these, and we're happy to invest our time and resources in
their success."
The partnership behind the charity event was coordinated by
Agency Ingram Micro, led by Jennifer Anaya, vice president of
marketing, Ingram Micro North America, who is a member of the
Operation Jump Start board of directors.
"Through my work with Operation Jump Start, I became familiar
with the needs of the often-underserved Long Beach School system.
I'm very proud that Ingram Micro was able to help give back and
address some of those needs," says Anaya. "In my involvement on the
board of this organization, I've been blessed to watch many our
mentored students graduate and tackle the challenge of college with
great success, and I'm so glad we had the opportunity to work
together so I could share some of that pride with my colleagues at
Ingram Micro."
"This event is a wonderful demonstration of what good corporate
citizenship is all about," said Wendy Santana, executive director
of Operation Jump Start. "We are thrilled to have the chance to
partner with Ingram Micro on behalf of Long Beach students."
This event was made possible in part by the generous support of
Ingram Micro's manufacturer sponsors Dell, Epson, and Peerless
A/V.
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About Ingram Micro Inc. Ingram Micro is the world's largest
wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT
supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services. As a vital link
in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile
solutions, technical support, financial services and product
aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global
broad-based IT distributor, serving approximately 170 countries on
six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT
products and services. Visit IngramMicro.com.
About Operation Jump Start Operation Jump Start is a Long Beach
community-based organization dedicated to equipping Long Beach
youth in underserved communities with the skills and vision
necessary to graduate from high school and realize their potential
through a college education. This is achieved by providing each
child with a dedicated volunteer mentor who promotes academic
persistence and encourages post-secondary education. It assists
disadvantaged students beginning in seventh grade and continuing
through high school graduation.
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