Here at Installation Services, we feel strongly that running your own business is about much more than simply making a profit. Involvement in the community is also a big part of who we are. While we support several initiatives, some of our favorites are listed here. If you have time, please follow the links to their sites and check them out. Who knows, perhaps you could pitch in and lend a hand as well!

Homes for Our Troops

Homes for Our Troops is a non-profit, non-partisan, 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 2004. This organization is strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to their country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries. They assist severely injured Servicemen and Women and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and then coordinating the process of building a new home or adapting an existing home for handicapped accessibility. The finished home is then given to the veteran.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. They invite people from all walks of life and faiths to work together in partnership to build and repair houses with families in need through four, primary, service programs: New Construction, Home Rehabs, Home Repairs and the Habitat ReStore.

KIVA

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

Best Friends

Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.

Honorable mention

While not a charitable organization, we have found that in the current economic environment, another group is in dire need of assistance...our communities pets! We are constantly finding abandoned pets in the homes we are tasked to repair. Many of them, abandoned by their families because of financial hardship, are being left to fend for themselves. While we notify the Humane Society for most, these five below have become members of the Installation Services team:

Chuck - Information Technology (actually he just sits on the rack because our servers are warm)

Cricket - Senior Management (well, sort of. He likes to sit on the back of my chair while I work)

Stuart - Office Manager (not a very good one...he finds most important document on desk and sits on it)

Mark - Mascot (can't do much else due to weight challenge...23lbs!!)

Abby - Security (both her bark and bite don't amount too much...but she does her best!)