12/23/2019 – In honor of its 60th anniversary, KBE Building Corporation’s senior leadership decided to complete six “Acts of Kindness”, or six substantial charitable acts, one for each decade the firm has been in business. Both KBE’s Conn. and Md. offices participated in the year-long endeavor.
The Six Acts of Kindness are supported by the firms 50 Ways to Make a Difference program. Established in 2009 to celebrate the firm’s new ownership, name change, and 50 years in business, 50 Ways has helped KBE associates donate $3.4 million and more than 13,000 volunteer hours to charitable causes benefiting children, seniors, and military veterans in Connecticut and Maryland.
Act One: KBE’s annual Gift of Gobble event provides Thanksgiving meals to families and organizations throughout CT and MD This year, in the events 11th year, KBE donated 396 Thanksgiving dinners, with more than 100 staff and their families from both offices pitching in to assemble and deliver the boxes to local agencies.
Act Two: Since 2015, KBE’s Connecticut Technical High School Scholarship program has supported graduating seniors pursuing post-high school education in the design and construction industry. This year’s awards totaled $18,000, given to 12 technical high school students. The funds will help the students pay for the costs of their post-high school education programs. Students were honored at an awards ceremony on June 11, 2019, at Farmington Gardens.
Act Three: KBE hosted its third annual Golf Tournament at the Country Club of Waterbury on June 25, 2019. Proceeds from the tournament directly benefit the firm’s Scholarship Program.
Act Four: KBE’s CT office assembled and donated 6’ cedar planters to local senior living communities in Cromwell, Hartford, Bloomfield, and West Hartford. KBE provided the planters, potting soil, and both vegetable plants and flowers.
Act Five: KBE hosted a community BBQ at the state-run Veteran’s Center in Newington on September 26, 2019. A dozen KBE staff served the lunchtime meals to several hundred veterans and their families, with food purchased from Mission BBQ (Southington) by KBE.
Act Six: KBE’s MD office ended the year-long Six Acts of Kindness program with the donation of 40+ children’s bikes and helmets to the Chesapeake Shores Salvation Army. The donation was organized with the Chesapeake Shores chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors as part of its annual Handlebars for the Holidays program – and KBE was able to provide the largest contribution in the program’s history.
In addition to the firm’s Six Acts of Kindness, KBE collects “jeans money” from staff each Friday in exchange for dressing down that day. Each month, senior management matches the employees’ donations. That money is then donated to a variety of charitable organizations in MD and CT, many of them recommended by employees. Among those the firm supported in 2019: the Red Shoe Shuffle, Boy Scouts of America, Diaper Bank of CT, the Alzheimer Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy, AHERO, Dress for Success, Williams Syndrome Association, and Creative Works Farm, among others.
About KBE Building Corporation
Located in Farmington, CT; Norwalk, CT; and Columbia, MD, KBE Building Corporation is a full-service, single-source commercial construction company strategically positioned to serve the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Founded in 1959 and incorporated in 1966, the firm provides preconstruction, construction management, design-build, and general contracting services to clients in the retail, educational, senior living, federal, corporate, hospitality, health care, and institutional markets. KBE has managed more than $2.5 billion in construction volume over the last decade and is ranked among Engineering News-Record magazine’s top 400 construction companies nationally. Learn more at www.kbebuilding.com.
KBE is one of the KBE Companies, which includes KBE-NY, serving metropolitan New York, and New Valley Construction, serving the Western US. Through this affiliation of full-service construction management firms, the KBE Companies serve clients throughout the US in the senior living, higher education, retail, corporate, government, hospitality/entertainment, and health care markets.
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