Prudential Fox & Roach/The Trident Group Has Recordbreaking Backpack Drive for Underprivileged Kids

JENKINTOWN, PA--- Another record-breaking backpack drive by Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS®/The Trident Group and Prudential Patt, White/Premier has resulted in 1633 fully loaded backpacks collected, topping last year’s record of 1108 with a 46% increase. Congratulations to the Jenkintown Home Marketing Center, the top office in the backpack collection, with 171 backpacks, a 58% increase from their 2011 total. Pictured here is a group of Jenkintown HMC sales associates and staff gathering to prepare the backpacks for distribution including (l to r) Andrew Smith, Kathy Cairone, Jennifer Kelly, Kassie Erb, President Fox & Roach Charities, Michal Smith, Executive Director of Cradles to Crayons, Jeffrey Parkins, Anna Skale, and Jenkintown HMC manager George Koser.

 “One in five children in our region live below the poverty line, making our annual backpack drive an important and gratifying staple of our company, enabling us to assist so many children in need and give them a backpack filled with supplies of their very own,” adds Kassie Erb, President of Fox & Roach Charities. Since 2006, the company has collected over 6,000 backpacks and supplies for homeless/foster care children in the Tri-State.  “Having our largest backpack drive to date, it really reflects the generosity of our PFR/T sales associates, employees executives, families, friends and clients,” remarks Gerard Griesser, President of Trident. Just imagine the pride and confidence that 1633 young students will feel on their first day of school as they carry their new backpacks.”

Fox & Roach Charities, a charitable foundation sponsored by Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS®, coordinated this project with the company’s sales associates and employees and partnered with Five Below, FlexBox Mobile Storage and Cradles to Crayons, (C2C), a non-profit organization that provides, free of charge, the basic necessities to children living in poor and low-income families. Fox & Roach Charities is funded solely by contributors and gives 100 percent of its proceeds to eligible non-profits across the tri-state region.  It is thanks to the voluntary donations made by Prudential Fox & Roach/Trident, our sales associates and employees, and Fox & Roach Charities Board of Trustees that we have donated over $3.9 million to more than 250 non-profits. For more information please visit our website at www.foxandroachcharities.com

Pennsylvania Offices collected 1070 backpacks to be distributed to more than 250 non-profits in all 5 counties including Northern Home for Children, Women Against Abuse, Momobile, Carson Valley Children’s Aid, Maternity Care Coalition, Turning Points for Children, Gesu School,Pathways, Family Services, Easter Seals, ACHIEVEability, Laurel House, NPIHN, Project HOME, Interfaith Housing Alliance, Children & Youth, People’s Emergency Center, Drueding Center/Project Rainbow, Tabor Children’s Services, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Bucks County Housing Group.

Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS®, the nation’s fifth largest provider of home services in the United States, is an independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate Affiliate, Inc. As the Tri State area’s real estate leader, the company has more than 57 sales locations and 3750 associates. Through its affiliate, the Trident Group, the company provides one-stop shopping and facilitated services to its clients including mortgage financing and title, property and casualty insurance. Visit our Website at www.prufoxroach.com.