FORT LAUDERDALE – (July 15, 2024) Fleet Advantage, a leading innovator in specialty financing, fleet data analytics, fleet management services, and life cycle cost management, announced today its Kids Around the Corner (KATC) Foundation will be hosting a Back-to-School Backpack Drive this Wednesday, July 17, in partnership with Henderson Behavioral Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing behavioral health services to the South Florida community.
Fleet Advantage assembled 200 backpacks this year – the most since the start of this initiative in 2021. The backpacks are filled with essential school supplies aimed at high school-age children by Fleet Advantage associates who volunteered during their lunch hours. The backpacks will be delivered to Henderson Behavioral Health’s Youth & Family Program location (2900 West Prospect Rd. Tamarac, FL 33309) from 10am to 11:30am EST. In addition to the backpack drive, Fleet Advantage will also make a monetary donation to Henderson to help them with future initiatives. KATC will also provide a monetary donation to Kids In Distress, whom they have partnered with previously, to support their own back-to-school backpack drive.
As one of the oldest, largest, and most successful providers of recovery services for people with co-occurring disorders in Florida, Henderson assists and inspires people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders to reclaim their lives through care, supported employment, advocacy, and housing. They utilize state-of-the-art research and evidence-based practices, combined with a wide range of supports to treat the whole person, rather than just the illness.
“We are extremely grateful to Fleet Advantage for their incredible generosity and support of the kids and young people that Henderson Behavioral Health helps,” said Dr. Steven Ronik, Henderson CEO. “We appreciate Fleet Advantage and know that our kids will be ready to get back to school with these wonderful donations.”
“Our team is dedicated to giving back to the community, and we are proud to support the important work Henderson Behavioral Health does for these young people,” said Elizabeth Gomez, Marketing Manager for Fleet Advantage and Committee Chair for the Kids Around The Corner Foundation. “As our largest backpack drive to date, we could not be more excited to make a significant impact on these high schoolers’ educational journey and show them that their community cares about their success.”
For more information on Fleet Advantage’s Kids Around the Corner Foundation and to view all of the charities the foundation has contributed to since its inception in 2014, please visit www.fleetadvantage.com/community-outreach.
About Fleet Advantage
Fleet Advantage is the largest independent lessor for heavy-duty Class-8 trucks and has over $3 Billion assets and over 20,000 units under its Life Cycle Cost Management program. This comprises a client portfolio of more than 50 of America’s top corporate fleets, including five (5) of the top 10 private fleets in the country. Fleet Advantage guarantees the absolute lowest cost of operation by providing fleet asset management, financing solutions, and fleet analytics, using the latest equipment technology to achieve optimum vehicle productivity and maximum safety. Our model of TCO, clean diesel, and safety-enhanced trucks with shorter life cycles complement our customers’ ESG goals. The accomplishments of Fleet Advantage and our leadership team continue to be recognized for tremendous growth and industry leadership with numerous awards, including Top Private Independent and Most Innovative Firm by the Monitor Daily, Top Software & Tech Awards, Top Women Associates in Finance, and Green Supply Chain Awards to name a few. The company has also been named to Inc. magazine’s 500|5000 list of fastest growing companies in the nation.
About Kids Around the Corner
Kids Around the Corner was founded in 2014 by Fleet Advantage to support the needs of the communities where their employees and clients live and work. Fleet Advantage has committed to donating a percentage of its profits to children’s charities each year on behalf of their customers.
About Henderson Behavioral Health
Henderson Behavioral Health (HBH) is the oldest and largest community-based not-for-profit behavioral healthcare system in Florida. Since 1953, HBH has helped hundreds of thousands of children, adults and families and recently celebrated their 70th Anniversary this year. HBH’s mission is to serve as the premier provider of accessible, cost effective, and quality behavioral healthcare services to the people of Florida in order to promote their mental health and well-being. In 2023, HBH assisted more than 27,000 individuals, 7,000 of which are children. HBH maintains the highest level of CARF (Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accreditation and has done so continuously for thirty years. For more information visit www.hendersonbh.org.
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