Corvette Assembly Plant Employees Give Back to Community

All day long, employees at the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant give their all to putting America’s Sports Car together.

Many of them aren’t content with just working, though, and continue to help put their community together as well, volunteering their time after hours to help the less fortunate in their community.

Wednesday morning, some of those employees attended a special meeting where General Motors announced that the GM Foundation’s Plant City Grants Program was again giving a total of $75,000 to 11 non-profit organizations that fund critical programs that help many residents in the community.

Over the last five years, the foundation has given a total of $325,000 through Plant City Grants and Habitat for Humanity.

Deciding which organizations would receive the money was not easy.

“Oh that is really tough, because here in the Bowling Green community there are so many non-profit organizations, but we selected 11 this year and we’re very happy to support those organizations,” Corvette Plant Assistant Manager Nora Roper said.

United Way of South Central Kentucky received some of the grant money.

United Way President and CEO Steve Wallace said his organization is “able to help so many partners in our community and do so many good things, helping people out of poverty, helping people with their educational problems, helping people find work. Everything that you’d expect someone who needs help typically can look to United Way and through our services can find help.”

Barren River Area Safe Space or BRASS received funds, too, and Executive Director Tori Henninger praised GM for being a great help to the organization.

“Any non-profit will say the best partner you can have is a partner that will come back, someone who is willing to give and then volunteer and then maybe give again and then volunteer again and build a relationship so that it doesn’t become just something they do, but something they care about,” Henninger said.

It’s not just Corvette Plant employees who help, though.

“It’s the best part of my job, and the GM people are so generous,” Roper told WBKO. “They give their money, they give their time. In fact we had 80 GM employees from across the country here in Bowling Green giving their service today.”

GM employees helped out at the Boys & Girls Club of Bowling Green, St. Vincent DePaul, New Beginnings Therapeutic Riding, the International Center of Kentucky and Kentucky Legal Aid.

Source:
wbko.com

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