Choate Employee-Owners Build Up Their Neighbors After Hurricane Helene

In addition to supporting the American Red Cross with their expansive outreach, Choate's employee-owners mobilized to help those in the hardest-hit communities across the Southeast, bringing generators, fuel, chainsaws, tools, water, food, and other much-needed supplies generously donated by employee-owners across the company.

In North Carolina, our team worked with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission stationed at Choate's ongoing Subaru jobsite just outside of Asheville, to help distribute to emergency outposts deep into the impacted communities. They were supported by the outstanding men and women with the Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Bernardsville Fire Company & First Aid Squad, Marion DNR Supply Depot, and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Dept.

In Georgia and South Carolina, Choate's team partnered with United Way of Greater Augusta, Augusta, Georgia Fire/EMA, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Choate client Hub for Community Innovation Augusta to deliver much-needed equipment and supplies throughout the area, using Merit Commercial Flooring warehouse as a base of operations.

Thank you to all who have given their time, resources, and heart in support of these crucial efforts!