Horizon employee earns $600 for non-profits
Bonner County Daily Bee | UPDATED 8 years, 11 months AGO
(Courtesy photo) Horizon Credit Union employee Craig Mason, second from right, helps present a $300 donation to Bonner Community Food Bank. Mason, a financial service representative at Horizon Credit Union’s Sandpoint branch, was the top employee volunteer at Horizon in the first quarter of 2017. As a result, he received $600 to donate to two 501c3 nonprofit organizations of his choice. Craig chose the Bonner Community Food Bank and the Panhandle Animal Shelter to each receive a $300 donation on behalf of Horizon. Pictured, from left, are Dena Moreno, Chris Herron, Mandy Evans, Craig Mas…
?Horizon Credit Union employee Craig Mason, third from right, helps present a $300 donation to Bonner Community Food Bank. Mason, a financial service representative at Horizon Credit Union’s Sandpoint branch, was the top employee volunteer at Horizon in the first quarter of 2017. As a result, he received $600 to donate to two 501c3 nonprofit organizations of his choice. Craig chose the Bonner Community Food Bank and the Panhandle Animal Shelter to each receive a $300 donation on behalf of Horizon. Pictured, from left, are Dena Moreno, Barb Oler, Debbie Love, Craig Mason, Kristal Neal and…
SANDPOINT — Craig Mason’s good deeds are going a little further, thanks to his being named Horizon Credit Union’s top employee volunteer for the first quarter of 2017.
Mason, a financial service representative at Horizon Credit Union’s Sandpoint branch, achieved two levels of recognition in the HZCU Go-Givers employee volunteer program. Mason, who volunteered for over 100 hours to earn the honors, received $600 to donate to two 501c3 nonprofit organizations of his choice. Mason chose the Bonner Community Food Bank and the Panhandle Animal Shelter to each receive a $300 donation on behalf of Horizon.
The checks were presented at the Horizon Credit Union branch in Sandpoint on Tuesday, May 2. Debbie Love and Barb Oler were present to accept the donation on behalf of Bonner Community Food Bank while Mandy Evans accepted the check on behalf of the Panhandle Animal Shelter.
Horizon Credit Union kicked off a newly designed volunteer program at the beginning of 2017. Horizon employees were already giving their time to volunteer and the credit union wanted to build a program to formally recognize their efforts.
“Volunteering has its own rewards, but it’s nice to work for a company that not only acknowledges our volunteer efforts but actively rewards those efforts with recognition and financial awards for our favorite charities,” Mason said.
The HZCU Go-Givers program encourages employees to become more connected to their communities through volunteerism both during and outside of work hours. From January to March 2017, 64 Horizon Credit Union employees volunteered for 621 hours at 58 different organizations.
Mason chose the Bonner Community Food Bank as a donation recipient because it uses 100 percent of donations to provide food for members of the community. The food bank serves as a resource for low-income families, disabled individuals, children and seniors. It’s designed to provide support in times of emergency and all resources at the food bank are free.
Panhandle Animal Shelter is a volunteer, non-profit shelter. Mason and his wife have specific ties to this organization as they have welcomed several adopted pets into their home. Of the 1,600 cats and dogs admitted to the shelter each year, nearly all strays will be placed in adoptive homes and several hundred will be reunited with their owners. The shelter’s outreach programs also provide humane education, spay/neuter cost assistance and free pet identification and registration.