We are just as passionate about helping our community be
successful as we are about our clients. Onsharp is dedicated not
only to our clients but also to our friends and neighbors. On the
13th of October, members of the Onsharp
team volunteered though the United Way of Cass Clay to help out
the Larson family in preparing their home for the upcoming
winter.
To ensure our clients' needs were met, a few team members stayed
behind to man the phones. While those members were busy at the
office, the rest of us were helping out at the Larson's. We raked,
washed windows, took out old plants, swept the siding… Wait! What?!
Yes, the siding was a little dusty so before we could touch up the
paint we swept the siding. No shortcuts were taken here!
True to our core value of having fun, we enjoyed spending time
with our co-workers helping out a great couple. Someone even pushed
me in the pile of leaves! Don't worry we cleaned up the pile
afterwards. We're good at making the best of a situation and when a
seemingly easy-to-build file cabinet was anything but easy, it
resulted in some good laughs like this:
Onsharpian 1: Scott you worked so hard on the cabinet, you
should sign it!
Onsharpian 2: He did sign it! With his sweat!
We had a lot of fun with helping out our community; we even
surprised Mrs. Larson with new Mums in her outdoor planters! By the
end of the afternoon we had developed a mutual friendship
with the Larson family. In fact, they want us to come back
next year and we are already planning which power tools to
bring.
Getting involved in your community has benefits for both the
giver and the receiver. At Onsharp we plan time in our schedule
every year to participate in a volunteer activity as a team.
However many of us also donate our free time to other volunteer
projects throughout the year. One of the greatest things that can
be said for volunteering is how inspirational it can be. It was
great to see how much we as a team could accomplish in just a few
hours that would have taken the couple several days to do. Their
world is a little better and each of us that volunteered has that
warm and fuzzy feeling as an added bonus.
