The work that team members do supports a larger purpose of creating healthier communities and giving more families access to fresh and affordable food. To expand upon this work, the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation created the company-wide Day of Service, uniting our team members for one day of giving.
Brett Queensberry, Perishable Manager at store #618 – Clearwater, FL, and his family take great pride in giving back to their community through volunteering. Together, they have logged thousands of hours volunteering for various non-profits: John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, The Lupus Foundation, Feeding America Tampa Bay, and Pack a Snack, to name a few.
Brett shared what inspired his family to volunteer for the Day of Service through the Foundation; “Passion. Passion is what drives our desire to do for others. More importantly it gave us the chance to show our 5-year-old son, Lewis, yet another way we can contribute to our community. It’s important to us that we teach Lewis the importance of helping others. It’s never too early to plant the seed in a young person’s mind.”
Through the Foundation, the Queensberry family volunteered with Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful, an environmental non-profit organization that holds cleanups in the Tampa Bay area. Although they had the chance to give their time through the Foundation, this was not their first time volunteering with the organization; “Our volunteering with Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful goes back many years. We strive to do our part to help keep the communities we live and work in beautiful and litter-free,” Brett said.
They’ve also partnered with Pasco County by participating in their Adopt-A-Road program. They adopted a road for their son named Lewis Queensberry and Friends. “He loves picking up trash, and we thought, ‘What better way to showcase his efforts then to have a road with his name on it?’” Brett said.
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