Freightquote.com Supports KCK RBI Youth Baseball Program
Posted by
FQ Admin on
5/15/2010
Associates donate time, money to support inner city baseball league
Freightquote.com has long been an active supporter of some of Kansas City’s finest community organizations. This spring, Freightquote.com, with the help of some of its 775 local employees, is lending a hand to the Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities (RBI) program (www.kckrbi.org) in Kansas City, Kansas.
The RBI program, part of Success Achieved in Future Environments (SAFE), provides opportunities for inner city youth to participate in organized baseball. SAFE was actually founded by a Freightquote.com employee, Cle Ross. Ross created SAFE to purchase and rehabilitate the abandoned Wyandotte County 3&2 baseball fields on Parallel Parkway and to re-establish baseball leagues for the boys and girls of Kansas City, KS. SAFE was recently able to establish an affiliation with Major League Baseball. The organization expects 500 youngsters to sign up for teams in 2010, up from 155 last year.
Last month, over two dozen volunteers from Freightquote.com invested some sweat equity into the RBI program by helping clean up some ball fields. The volunteers cut down trees, raked, trimmed, swept and disposed of a tremendous amount of litter and other debris to help ready the fields for summer ball games.
When the teams take the field this summer, two will be sponsored by Freightquote.com. Employees participated in a raffle fundraiser, raising money (which was then matched 100% by the company) to provide the team with uniforms. A very successful sports equipment donation drive will help those children who are unable to afford their own bats and gloves.
“On behalf of Kansas City, Kansas RBI I would like to thank Freighquote.com for putting our youth into a position to make dreams a reality. Baseball is back in the inner city of Kansas City, Kansas and without the help of companies like Freightquote.com none of this would be possible,” said senior account manager Ross, who has been with the company since 2004.
Freighquote.com is proud to help support the Kansas City, KS RBI program and to count Cle Ross among its valued team members.
About Freightquote.com
Based outside Kansas City, Freightquote.com and its subsidiaries serve customers across North America. The company has over 900 employees and annualized revenues exceeding $400 million. Founded in August of 1998 by Tim Barton, Freightquote.com delivers a vast array of services for a large and diverse customer base. These services enable customers to instantly quote and compare freight rates of hundreds of national and regional freight carriers. Freightquote.com specializes in creating customized freight solutions to meet their customer’s needs, including LTL, truckload, intermodal and air freight options.
Visit http://www.freightquote.com for more information or call (800) 323-5441 to reach Freightquote.com directly.
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