Florida Staples Store to Donate Money from Sales to Amigos for Kids Charity

West Miami Store Adopts Amigos for Kids

Janice Villa
According to a press release today, December 4, 2007 from HISPANIC PR WIRE, Staples, the world's largest office supply store, is going to donate $10 from every purchase made during their Holiday Night event at their West Miami Store in Florida to the organization called Amigos For Kids. The special event will take place on December 5th, 2007 from 5 to 9 pm.

This event is only taking place at :

Staples - West Miami
1044 SW 67th Avenue
West Miami, FL 33144

Staples is making a difference in the South Florida community. This Holiday Night is only one of the various ways Staples contributes to the community. This year the Staples West Miami Store adopted the Amigos For Kids Organization. With their new partnership, Staples has donated a total of $15,000 and has also given their support through special events like this Holiday Night of shopping. Staples and its charity called Staples Foundation For Learning, have donated more than $365,000 to various educational, non-profit and community organizations in South Florida.

Amigos For Kids is a local non-profit organization. It was founded in 1991 to address the diverse needs of South Florida's abused, abandoned and less fortunate children and their families. Amigos For Kids supports at risk children through education, teaching abuse prevention and community involvement. In the past 16 years, the Amigos For Kids Annual Holiday Toy Drive distributes toys to thousands of children. What makes this drive unique is that it fulfills the specific wishes of each child. For more information about Amigos For Kids you can go to their website at: http://www.amigosforkids.org .

Staples, Inc. invented the office superstore concept back in 1986. Today it is the world's largest office products company. Staples currently employs 74,000 associates. The concept of Staples is to make it easy to buy a wide range of office products, including supplies, technology, furniture, and business services. Staples supplies consumers and businesses alike. Many home-based businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies use Staples for office supplies in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. Their headquarters are located outside of Boston. There are more than 1,900 Staples office superstores. Staples also supplies customers through their mail order catalog, e-commerce and contract businesses. If you would like more information about Staples you can check out their website at : http://www.staples.com .

Source:
Staples Makes Holiday Giving as 'Easy' as Holiday Shopping
http://www.hispanicprwire.com/news.php?l=in&id=10201&cha=8

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  • Jeanne Marie Kerns12/13/2007

    ;-) great article :-)

  • julz12/12/2007

    What a great Cause!

  • J P Whickson12/10/2007

    This type of news needs to be broadcast, too. Frequently too much of the news forgets to relay this type of information.

  • April Johnson12/10/2007

    Great info! Too bad this is just happening at one store...they should do it in all the stores all over the country.

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