Volunteer Glazing for the Collaboration Center Foundation

Volunteer Glazing for the Collaboration Center Foundation
Giroux Glass Las Vegas team members spent Saturday helping on the Collaboration Center’s Las Vegas Ranch

This weekend, a big-hearted group of our Las Vegas team members spent their Saturday volunteering for a wonderful local cause, providing pro-bono glazing work for The Collaboration Center Foundation. The nonprofit organization provides access to resources for special needs children and their families, including treatment and therapy providers, government agencies, and medical professionals, as well as social and recreational opportunities.  

 

This weekend’s project involved glazing for a building on the Collaboration Center’s Las Vegas Ranch campus. Our team partnered with the Penta Building Group to provide and install two glass wall entrances for the new facility. Penta generously donated materials, while the Giroux Glass team provided labor for the installation.

For any of our Union glaziers, this would have seemed a typical day of work, but several factors made Saturday an unusual event. One such factor was that the installation team was comprised of both glazier and non-glazier volunteers. To ensure things went smoothly, the glaziers of the group – Jesse Grubbs, Robert Blindert, and Kawelo McKeague – led the remaining participants through the installation process. Under their strong guidance, the non-glazier team members – who typically work as engineers, estimators, project managers and CAD technicians – were able to execute the project without a hitch. Big thanks to Catherine and Greg Wright, Diossalene Valena, Jerod Allen, Daniel Rodriguez, Genieve Pereda, Tremain Roseman, and Jacob Butler who all pitched in. They got the job done, working side by side with our expert Union glaziers, while experiencing, first hand, what it’s like to work a day in the field.

The other factor we appreciate is that everyone stepped forward to do this work “freely.” By that, we mean not only that our volunteers each donated a day of their free time to work on this project, but also that they did so in exchange for nothing but the satisfaction of helping the community. Such actions make us all enormously proud. A day spent in service is a day spent improving the lives of our neighbors in need. We look forward to many more opportunities to do so in the future.

Thank you again, Team Las Vegas!