Priority One Financial Services Inc., the nation’s oldest and largest full-service retail F&I outsource company, was recently recognized by the Tampa Bay Business Journal as a One Tampa Bay Honoree. The One Tampa Bay Awards highlight Tampa Bay-area nonprofits and companies that go above and beyond the call of duty to ingrain corporate social responsibility into their workplace culture.
Priority One has been serving the recreational industry since 1987. Acquired in 2007 by Forest River, Priority One serves as the F&I managed services provider for hundreds of dealers nationwide.
Thirty-six organizations and businesses were honored at an awards luncheon held Nov. 15. Ten Priority One employees attended on behalf of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based company’s 70 employees. Since the mid-1980s, Priority One employees have participated in impromptu volunteer activities, but in the early 2000s, employees decided to do more and developed an annual volunteering program called “Give Thanks.”
Each November, Priority One employees get paid time off to volunteer with various local charities. Past volunteering activities have included Homeless Emergency Protection, Suncoast Animal League, Habitat for Humanity, Bay Pines Veterans Hospital, Florida Maritime Museum, Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA) and more. This November, so far, Priority One has volunteered at Metropolitan Ministries, Bakas Equestrian Center: Horses for the Handicapped, Suncoast Hospice/Empath Health, Tampa Bay Watch and Ronald McDonald House.
