Charity

Event Recap: Annual Mozel Sanders Foundation Day of Giving

For the seventh year in a row, the corporate team at Flaherty & Collins Properties held fun contests, events and a donation drive as part of a day of giving with the Mozel Sanders Foundation.

“What Mozel Sanders does in the community is a vital part of Central Indiana, and we’re happy to support their cause,” said Jerry Collins, President and Co-Founder of Flaherty & Collins Properties, while presenting the foundation with a check and a sample of the F&C donation.

And what Stephanie Sanders and the team at Mozel Sanders Foundation do each year is feed 40,000 throughout Central Indiana on Thanksgiving – in addition to distributing bags of goods and groceries each and every month to those in need.

Each year, F&C’s corporate team ups the ante, and this year was no different, holding two events at our corporate office – a Pumpkin Carve-Off and Chili Cook-Off. Winners were selected by “celebrity” judges Concetta Lorah, Director of Events & Expositions for the Indiana Apartments Association, La Keisha Jackson, Pathway Resource Center & Indianapolis City Councilwoman and Stephanie Sanders, Mozel Sanders Foundation chairwoman, along with her son, Stefan.

A great time for a great cause! Our winners were:

The Pumpkin Carve-Off

Gavin Greene (Property Management / IT) – 1st Place

Josh Marsh (Construction) – 2nd Place

Dawn Coyle (Corporate Compliance) – 3rd Place

The Chili Cook-Off

Grand Champion – Lisa Berry (Corporate Compliance)

Hottest Chili – Grante Manning (Corporate Accounting)

Best Taste & Overall Flavor – Teisa Ward (Amber Woods)

Mozel Sanders Foundation goal is to raise $100,000 in their annual Thanksgiving Day campaign. You can learn more and donate by visiting https://www.mozelsanders.org/.

Carving For A Cause

This week, F&C carved out a little time to hold our annual Mozel Sanders Foundation charitable event, the capstone of a campaign that we’ve been running this year since the middle of the summer to raise donations and collect goods for the Mozel Sanders Foundation’s annual Thanksgiving Day campaign.

 

 

This year, F&C and our partners at Vision Communities, Inc. presented Stephanie Sanders (head of the foundation) with a $4,000 check and over 5,000 goods for the campaign.

 

And of course, we celebrated the end of the drive with a little F&C flair, highlighted by a pizza party and pumpkin carving contest in our Corporate Headquarters on the 30th floor of the Regions Tower in Downtown Indianapolis.

Each and every department participated in what we dubbed the “Great Carve Off” – with prizes awarded to:

  • Scariest Carve – Drew Rosenbarger
  • Most Creative Carve – Josh Marsh
  • People’s Choice – Josh Marsh

Special thanks to our judges (Lynne Petersen and Pat Gleason from the IAA and Stephanie Sanders and Stefon Sanders of Mozel Sanders Foundation).

We even found out that Luke Hoffman can hollow out a pumpkin in less than 2 minutes!

Mozel Sanders Foundation goal is to raise $100,000 in their annual Thanksgiving Day campaign. Each year, the Mozel Sanders Foundation feeds approximately 40,000 in Central Indiana on Thanksgiving – in addition to distributing bags of goods and groceries each and every month to those in need.