Salt Lake City, UTAH
Two companies. One war.
Hundreds of victors.
A war was brought to truce through service at the Globus Relief headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah in August. Companies NFP/FirstWest Bene t Solutions, a Utah-based insurance broker and health and retirement bene ts consultancy, and Hospice for Utah, an in-home hospice service company, waged a wellness war over the summer months, each challenging the other to better living through a system of points won for healthy habits and positive life changes made. And the prize to the victor? The losing team had to convert the winning team’s points into donation dollars at a rate of 5 cents per point.
The teams tallied the nal results at the end of summer and NFP/FirstWest was dubbed champion. The resulting donated funds were used to help resupply a local Utah dental o ce that had been devastated by re earlier in the year, su ering a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of damage. Because of Globus Relief’s unique acquisition and distribution methods, the funds produced a humanitarian impact multiple times greater than the original donation.
The companies celebrated the victory on August 15 at Globus Relief’s warehouse in Salt Lake City. Representatives from each company joined Globus Relief sta in re-packaging medication administration packets to be sent to humanitarian e orts worldwide through Globus Relief’s many charity partners. The true victors of this story turned out to actually be the victims of other wars waged – hundreds of poverty-stricken people in need.
Globus Relief
Globus Relief was founded in 1996. While working in the salvage retail industry, two Salt Lake City businessmen were saddened to see viable medical and hygiene supplies frequently sent to landfills. Certain that these surplus resources could be rescued and put to good use, they created Globus Relief to efficiently channel overstocked, gently used, or short-dated supplies to humanitarian projects in Utah and around the world.
Since our founding, Globus Relief has distributed over $1 billion (fair market value) of supplies to more than 800 charities at work in over 140 countries. Twenty full-time employees oversee the work of gathering, processing, and distributing humanitarian supplies in our 100,000-s.f. warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Volunteers contribute an average of 225 labor hours per week, the equivalent of 5.6 additional full-time employees.
Globus Relief is known for strong financial efficiency, historically keeping administrative and fundraising expenses to under 3% of our total budget.
