Corus360 Reaches Out to Stripling Elementary with 20 Guitars
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Corus360 Reaches Out to Stripling Elementary with 20 Guitars
from the Gwinnett Forum
Norcross, GA. Friday, December 2, 2011 -- In an exemplary relationship between private business and improvement of schools, a Norcross firm has donated 20 guitars to students at Susan Stripling Elementary School in Norcross.
Allison Rickards, from Corus360, visited a Stripling Elementary Open House recently and heard second grade guitar students perform a song. The company was so impressed that it decided to sponsor 20 guitars from the Little Kids Rock program. Corus360 also is donating winter scarves, gloves, hats and socks to every Stripling student, a total of over 4,000 items. Corus360 provides infrastructure solutions, recovery and professional services that help organizations reduce costs, increase efficiencies and maximize productivity.
Rickards says: "Corus360 Cares is an outreach program that organizes charitable events and activities to serve the local community. By participating in activities designed to mirror the heart of our company and its values, we are hoping to publicly demonstrate what we internally believe - that goodwill is spread one employee at a time."
Little Kids Rock is a national non-profit that transforms children's lives by restoring and revitalizing music education in disadvantaged schools. Partnering with school districts, the non-profit trains teachers to be innovative in curriculum. This includes donating of instruments and resources to run music programs. Another non-profit earlier donated 30 guitars for the beginning of the program.
Merle Soodyall, an arts teacher at the school, is thrilled with the participation of Corus360. "Their gift validates what we are trying to get across to the students, that they have abilities that are yet to be uncovered. The music program has been so well received by the students. It helps round them out to be better students."
Corus360 is a business partner with Stripling, and previously conduced a school supply drive for Stripling, and has 14 employees reading to students in the "Everybody wins" program.
About Corus360
Corus360 is a technology consulting and solutions company with more than 10 years of success delivering infrastructure solutions, recovery and consulting services that help organizations reduce costs, increase efficiencies and maximize productivity. We specialize in best of breed infrastructure solutions, IT management consulting, application development, Data Center technologies, disaster recovery, managed services and enterprise applications. For more information, visit www.corus360.com.