What we’re doing for our communities in four states

SeaWide Express is known for our employees’ willingness to help customers and partners whenever needed. Even though our team works in four states across five different time zones, we often step in to serve customers outside our normal workdays. 

Being helpful goes beyond our business world. Like all companies in the AJC Group, SeaWide supports a number of worldwide charitable activities sponsored by AJC Cares, the group’s charitable outreach organization. In addition, SeaWide employees proudly donate their own personal time and money to help make the world a better place for all generations.

“AJC Cares is built on our long tradition of giving back and paying it forward,” said Tina Sorrels, who has participated in that tradition throughout her 42 years with the AJC Group.  

As AJC Group’s Director of Philanthropy and Corporate Secretary, she oversees a large number of initiatives that feed, shelter and support thousands of children, women with breast cancer, and other people in need.

Because transporting food is a major focus for all AJC Group companies, food is a key part of AJC Cares outreach programs, too. Every year, with help from our vendors, we supply over 80,000 pounds of proteins to feed 6,000 in 143 shelters. And the AJC Group has joined with global companies like PepsiCo, Tyson and Starbucks to support Feed the Children’s worldwide activities.

“Over the years, our employees have generated millions of dollars in funding for charitable organizations,” said Sorrels.  “But our commitment doesn’t stop with money donations. Employees and their families gladly provide thousands of hours of their personal time to help people in their communities.”

As one example, SeaWide’s Atlanta employees can participate in a Family Craft Night each month at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Children's Hospital. The events give hospitalized children and their families time to brighten their day with laughs, crafts and play. 

SeaWide employees working in smaller offices use their creativity to find meaningful ways to participate. They can write cards or letters to hospitalized children, or send them puzzles and toys. They can also sign up for the many fund-raising walks and races sponsored nationwide by the Susan G. Komen foundation—and AJC Cares will match any funds they contribute to finding cures for breast cancer. 

To highlight everyone’s collective efforts—which transcend AJC Group’s worldwide locations—AJC Cares chose this theme: “We are all in this together.” That includes all the people who inspire AJC Cares—such as the child with a rare disease, the young mother with breast cancer, and the 12 year-old boy in foster care.