Brown & Brown Dealer Services, an Adair County, Kentucky-based F&I systems provider, is taking a local approach to the nationwide pandemic that’s affected so many of its clients.
The company coordinated with 3trees Church and Bank of Columbia in town to donate 2,000 surgical masks and 18 gallons of hand sanitizer to healthcare facilities and providers in Adair County. 3trees Pastor Eric Gilbert announced the donation during his church’s Wednesday web service.
Wes Feese, marketing specialist at Brown & Brown, said many of the company’s employees are part of the 3trees congregation. Feese said it just made sense to work with the neighborhood church.
“We try to do community service-type projects and charity drives on a fairly regular basis, and with a worldwide epidemic going on, the choice was clear,” Feese said.
Brown & Brown Dealer Services is a division of Brown & Brown Insurance.
Feese said the groups delivered the hand sanitizer and masks to the county Sheriff and Emergency Director on Wednesday, April 22. Those county officials will distribute the supplies as needed.
Brown & Brown Dealer Services President Mike Neal said the local partnership came quickly once pandemic’s effect on his community was apparent.
“With the recent outbreak in this community, where our teammates live, we all wanted to do something to help,” Neal said. “We’re grateful we ran across the opportunity to get these supplies to the nursing home, to the hospital, to our paramedics, to all our friends and neighbors on the front line of this. Columbia is home base for us and we care about our friends and families.”
Bank of Columbia President Mark Dykes said he was glad to join in the charity effort.
“We’re all in this together,” Dykes said. “This is a community where we look out for each other so we want to do anything we can–big or small.”
Click here to read a story about the donation in Columbia Magazine.
