EVOLVE Business and Professional Magazine February 2020 | Page 31

Mattress manufacturer Fox Mattress of Holly Hill, Florida, made a major gift to the Conklin Center for the Blind by outfitting its 19 student residences with new mattresses and box springs. Fox Mattress has been a corporate partner of the Conklin Center, which serves blind and low vision adults who have additional disabilities, for fifteen years. “We are proud to be a part of the Conklin Center family, and we are in awe of the work of its professional team,” said Chelsea Carter, Vice President of Fox Mattress. “We’ve been involved in the community throughout our 51 years in business and anytime we get the chance to help the Conklin Center, we’re all in.” Inspecting new donated Fox mattresses and box springs are Kelly Harris, President and CEO of Conklin Center; Mike Jiloty, Marketing Consultant; Mike Fielding, Chairman of Conklin Center; and Chelsea Carter, Vice President of Fox Mattress. Fields BMW of Daytona has been a sponsor for the Early Learning Coalition’s Annual Duck Race and Change the First Five Years Dinner and Silent Auction for the past 3 years. Fields not only sponsors the events but their staff participate in the activities including Giant Duck Decorating, Duck Relay Races and “Are you Smarter than a Preschooler” Game Shows. In 2019 their employees won the Duck Relay Race and the “Are you Smarter than a Preschooler” Game Show. So not only do they give back, they have fun while doing it! If you and your company would like to be featured in Community Service Means Good Business, please send your high resolution photo(s) (at least 300 dpi), caption and/or event title, date and names of the individuals in the photo to [email protected]. By submitting a photo(s) for consideration, you declare that you have permission to use and submit the visual image of any identifiable individual or building in the photograph and that you give EVOLVE Magazine the right to use the photo(s) in current and future communications. Final decisions regarding the inclusion of images in issues of EVOLVE are at the discretion of the EVOLVE editorial team. FEBRUARY 2020 | 25 |