Cydcor, Inc., a California-based sales organization, gives 27 boxes of items from home to troops on tour overseas through Any Soldier®, Inc. More than just donating funds, the company’s employees have involved themselves in putting together the packages for the troops that these boxes were filled with. These packages contained anything from simple food snacks from home, to toiletries and entertainment.
“Our troops are making sacrifices for all of us and we felt it was very important to help them as much as we could,” said Gary Polson, chief executive officer of Cydcor. The company’s team members are supportive of this advocacy and have shown much enthusiasm in donating and adding items to the dozens of boxes that were gathered at the their office in Westlake Village, CA before being sent over to Any Soldier.
Any Soldier, Inc. began as a project by one Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, who agreed to distribute packages that came to him marked with “Attn: Any Soldier” in an attempt to help out those soldiers who didn’t get much or any mail from home. The effort that was meant to help out the troops from his Army unit can now reach soldiers from the entire Armed Forces who are in harm’s way. Any Soldier helps nearly 100,000 American soldiers in all branches of the military receive packages from home. Although donors do not choose who will receive the packages that they send, they can choose from a list of volunteer soldiers who will deliver them.
Cydcor, Inc. has a strong sense of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and has donated to various non-profit organizations in the past, including the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and Casa Pacifica in Camarillo, California. Cydcor also launched the Neighborhood Leader program in early 2009, a program which highlights volunteer efforts made for charitable organizations.
Thanks to the efforts of Cydor and Any Soldier, troops can overcome both the physical and the psychological battles of war.
View a previously written post by Mouli Cohen about Philanthropy.