Some Boston moving companies are more into charity than others. Here at Humboldt, we are passionate about a few cause which we support. One particular cause we have been involved in over the past few years is the March of Dimes- March for Babies walk. On May 8th, we went to the Hatch Shell for the walk. Despite thunder, lighting and pouring rains, our team showed up ready to go proudly sporting Humboldt t-shirts and ponchos. As always, it was an outstanding event.

For those of you who don’t know take a quick peek at the March of Dimes mission: Our mission is to improve the healthof babies by preventing birthdefects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.

With help from the 16 Humboldt team members that signed up as fundraisers we were able to raise an amazing $6493.00 in addition to $5000 and in-kind services that the company provided. Last year we had raised $3200.00; our goal for 2010 was $3500.00. We surpassed that goal by almost double.

I would like to congratulate all who participated in the walk and thank each person who donated money to the  Humboldt Team. I would especially like to congratulate Jamie Vayo, the Humboldt Team captian. It was through Jamie’s efforts that Humboldt was able to field such a strong team and, in turn, smash our fundraising goals!

The Humboldt gang with Enza and Kevin Youkilis (of the Boston Red Sox)

As I have mentioned in previous blogs, our Boston moving company has teamed up with the non-profit organization, More Than Words.  They run a bookstore/coffee shop in Waltham that employs youth who are on the streets, in a foster care system, out of school, or in the court system.  The youth work as a team to manage the bookstore, the online website, and coffee shop, which teaches them the skills that are necessary to go out into the community with self-confidence and obtain employment.    To help with this great cause, we have gone to our customers and have offered the opportunity to put books to good use that they may be throwing away prior to the move.  Together, our sales and operations teams work to pack, load, and deliver boxes of books to Waltham. 

 As part of our collaboration we wanted to get more involved with the youth who are employed with the organization, so we invited the youth from More Than Words to tour our facility.  The youth who are working at More Than Words are getting valuable hands on business experience.  We were hoping the visit to Humboldt would increase their exposure to the structure of a business by showing them what we do here. 

 This past week the youth came to our Boston moving company for their visit.  A group of 15 youth came to learn more about our company and the areas that help us run our business. With the help of our team at Humboldt, they got to experience what it is like to work in sales and marketing, accounting, our international division, customer service, and warehouse operations.  They were able to observe the passion our employees put into there work to help reduce stress of customers.  The employees at Humboldt had a great time.  We have never had a more inquisitive and engaging group of individuals visit us here at Humboldt.  We can’t wait for a return trip from this great group of future business leaders.

See the picture below from the event.