Blog: United’s School Supply Drive!

United Services Group is calling on you to help us “Stuff the Bus” with school supplies for a local Charlotte area school in need! ([tweetthis url=”http://bit.ly/usgstb” remove_twitter_handles=”true”]Help @UntdSrvcsGroup Stuff the Bus with School Supplies for a CMS School![/tweetthis])

United Services Group’s “Stuff The Bus” School Supply Drive fundraiser is aimed at raising funds and supplies for a local underprivileged school in the Charlotte community.  In our first annual “Stuff The Bus” School Supply Drive our goal is to raise $5,000.00 (or more!) worth of school supplies to donate to this year’s recipient school, MGLA at Marie G. Davis. 

MGLA at Marie G. Davis is one of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Systems 69 Title I, formerly No Child Left Behind.  Schools considered Title I are those in which at least 72% of the student population has been designated as economically disadvantaged. 

About Title I:

Title I, Part A the cornerstone of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), previously known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), is the largest federal education program.  Its intent is to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach proficiency on challenging State academic content and performance standards.

Title I began with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, which provided federal funding for high-poverty schools to help students who are behind academically and at risk of falling behind.

At United Services Group, we aim to be a positive and productive member of our community. We are proud to support organizations working to strengthen our communities and seeks to do our part in improving and building the lives of our neighbors.

As a member of the Charlotte community, we contribute financial resources and gifts to help bring change in our community as well as donating our time and resources to help make a difference.

How to Contribute:

No donation is too small!  We are gladly accepting school supplies or monetary donations at our company headquarters.  If you would like to donate school supplies or to send a check, please send to the following address:  United Services Group, Attn: Stuff the Bus, 2835 Jeff Adams Drive, Suite G, Charlotte, NC 28206.  If you are in the Charlotte area and would like for us to arrange a local pick-up, please contact Derek Ward at 980-237-1335.

We have also set up a GoFundMe fundraiser page to ease the donation process.  If you would like to contribute a donation this way, please visit our fundraiser page at:  http://www.gofundme.com/usgstb.  All monetary donations will be turned into school supplies. 

We ask that all donations be received on or before Friday August 21, 2015 to give adequate shopping time for supplies.

Feel Free to Share:

We have attached the fundraiser flyer as well as a social media graphic to be used on your social media accounts.  Feel free to share these with whomever you like.  Also please use the social links on this page to share to your favorite social network.

United Services Group’s Stuff the Bus Flyer – PDF
United Services Group’s Stuff the Bus Flyer – Social Media Graphic

Blog: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

On August 19, 2014, our Chief Executive Officer, Josh Armstrong, was challenged by the United Services Group employees to complete the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.  He gladly accepted the challenge and as a company we made a donation to the ALS Association.  As part of the challenge, we called our four individuals to accept the challenge on behalf of United Services Group.  Direct Link to Video can be found here.

Josh issued the Challenge to Nathan Sipp with Federated Insurance, John Hondros with SunTrust Bank, Kevyn Terry with HTI, and Josh Armstrong’s wife Candace Armstrong. We hope they will accept this challenge on behalf of United Services Group to continuing raising awareness for the ALS Association.

If you would like to make a donation to ALS, to learn how to volunteer in your area, or to find out more information about their organization and the Ice Bucket Challenge, please visit their website at http://www.alsa.org.

About ALS (from ALSA.org):
ALS was first found in 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, but it wasn’t until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease. Ending the career of one of the most beloved baseball players of all time, the disease is still most closely associated with his name. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.  More information about the ALS Association can be found on their website at http://www.alsa.org.

About the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge:
The Ice Bucket Challenge is an event to raise awareness about ALS.  Participants make a donation to ALS and have 24 hours from being challenged to record a video dumping a bucket of ice water on their head and in return challenging three or more individuals  to take the challenge.  The challenge has so far raised over $20 million dollars for ALS research.  More information about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge can be found at http://www.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.html.