The Gene B. Glick Co. manages more than 20,000 units in 13 states and has touched many of its residents and other community members in these areas with its latest of many charitable causes.
Since 2015, the company has sponsored the Feeding Those in Need grant program, which helps increase access to healthy, nutritious food in areas where the firm holds properties.
As part of the program, Glick employees are asked to recommend nonprofit organizations in their local community that are working to fight food insecurity. Those organizations can apply for a grant from Glick Philanthropies, Glick’s philanthropic arm, which has been operating since 1982.
Through the grant, local organizations are given funds to provide meals for children, families, and seniors who lack consistent access to nutritious food and to help reduce food insecurity by tackling the problem’s root causes, such as unemployment or financial instability.
With a “boots on the ground” mentality, the Glick staff also looked at the company’s own apartment communities to see how they could help fight hunger. The firm has added on-site gardens to many properties and set up workshops where residents can learn about basic gardening tools, vegetables, germination, harvesting, and pest management.
“At some properties, produce grown in the community garden goes directly to the food pantry on-site or to one in the community that residents can access too,” says Glick. “Staff has even cooked up some veggies and had them at resident meetings and other community events and activities.”
Glick Philanthropies has provided over $550,000 to not-for-profits through Feeding Those in Need grants so far. In 2017, 50 organizations across eight states received a Feeding Those in Need grant, and Glick says that in 2018 the company will aim to reach all 13 states where it has apartment communities.
Beyond its work with Feeding Those in Need, Glick Philanthropies holds over $600 million in charitable assets across various programs, including the Glick Family Foundation, Glick Gives, and the Gene B. Glick Family Housing Foundation for affordable housing. Read more on Glick’s charitable efforts and Glick Philanthropies here.
