CornerStone Homes won the Golden Service Award at the annual Laurel presentation and the company has quite a resume in helping others.
“The team at CornerStone Homes believes it is important to support the communities in which we build and contribute to making Jacksonville a better place to live,” said Managing Partner Mark Downing. “The company supports worthy industry and charitable causes that advance the homebuilding profession and improve the quality of life for our neighbors.”
The CornerStone team gives its time and resources to a plethora of community organizations including the Bartram Trail High School Athletics Department, First Coast CrimeStoppers and Builders Care, a nonprofit organization that provides construction-related services to low-income, disabled and elderly community residents.
The staff is also actively involved in the daniel mentoring program, serving community children in crisis.
With Builders Care, the CornerStone Homes team spent two work days to provide building improvements to daniel, an organization that provides an array of programs and services aimed at enhancing the lives of children and their families. Volunteers repaired and painted several classrooms and coordinated a cookout for the daniel children, employees and volunteers.
CornerStone Homes also provided painting and drywall during a home renovation for the Goodalls, a Jacksonville family of eight. The father was challenged by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and the oldest son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
Downing served as president of the Northeast Florida Builders Association in 2008, providing expert leadership as the homebuilding industry faced many challenges.
The team at CornerStone Homes also supported several community and industry organizations by contributing volunteer hours and financial donations prior to 2008, including Builders Care, Habitat for Humanity, daniel, the Donna Foundation and the Youth Crisis Center.
CornerStone Homes assisted in the Sales & Marketing Council’s Builders Care workday to refurbish the former Parks & Recreation Building in Jacksonville Beach as the new Beaches location of the Arc of St. Johns. The organization provides an adult day care program and other services for people with development disabilities. The facility was in need of extensive renovations, including handicapped accessible bathrooms, a laundry room, a welcoming center, painting and yard work.
All Cornerstone Homes employees volunteer and/or financially contribute to CornerStone Homes-sponsored projects; however, a majority go above and beyond by volunteering time and donating additional funds to First Coast Crimestoppers, the daniel mentoring program and work days, children’s athletic programs, the Humane Society and local animal shelters, Builder’s Care work days, Arc of the St. Johns work days, HabiJax, Habitat for Humanity, Youth Crisis Center, Womenade, Toys for Tots, Arlington Food Bank and Baptist Children’s Home.