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COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

The team at Bakers Quarry collected

500 pounds of food for a local

were matched by nearby Matthews

Quarry, which contributed an

additional 582 pounds of food.

“In past years, the Chamber has organized hundreds of “Helping our community helps give Martin Marietta a
volunteers and completed dozens of hands-on projects good name,” says Director of Transportation and Logistics
all on the same day,” Kacynski said. “But our 2020 team Julia Larson, who spearheaded a donation of 500 meals for
had to coordinate this event around COVID-19, and what staff at a Denver area hospital and 2,000 face coverings for
we realized pretty quickly was that our community doesn’t students in a local school district, “but more importantly, it
need its parks painted right now. Our seniors don’t need shows that we’re a part of this community. We’re all going
their lawns raked right now. What our community needs through this together.”
most is food.”

After collecting donations from the local business COVID-19 Donation Highlights
community, including Martin Marietta, Kacynski, Ballard
and the rest of the Chamber group distributed 6,500
pounds of food to more than 260 area families. Martin Marietta’s Corporate Office in Raleigh
donated 47,000 face coverings to the Wake
“Knowing there are so many in our community who have County Public School System, the largest
school district in North Carolina.
trouble securing enough food is humbling,” Ballard said.
“But it feels good to help. And it feels good knowing that
I work for a really good Company that’s always willing
to help, too.” The Southwest Division’s Midlothian Cement
and Hunter teams donated more than 4,750
To help address increased food insecurity during the N-95 masks to various first responder
agencies across Texas along with several
pandemic, Martin Marietta teams across the Company
hundred large bottles of hand sanitizer.
organized similar types of food drives. In the East
Division’s Charlotte District, teams at Matthews and
Bakers quarries collected more than 1,000 pounds of
The East Division’s NC-East District provided
food. At the Company’s corporate headquarters in
the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wake County
Raleigh, employees contributed almost 25,000 meals. In
with $10,000 to support virtual
Texas and Colorado, teams also purchased hundreds programming and food distribution to local
of meals for first responders in hospitals, fire houses and families in need.
police departments.

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