Through three years of being the "Diversity Champion" for the state of Florida, appointed tittle for being a committed advocate for Diversity And Inclusion, conducting over 20 different seminars and training for sales associates and managers. Also, fostering strong relationships within the community and participating in countless community service events. My store earned the highest recognition for community service in the company with the Inaugural Culture Award in 2017.

1. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL Slide 1 Gordon Food Service Store®
Store Culture Award - 2017

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Relay for life
We donated paper plates, and cups out of left behind or discontinued not on inventory items for
their survivor dinner. Store Manager Tomas Gonzalez also attended many of their planning
meetings, shared stories and bonded with their event and their cause. We also attended their
event and provided a helping hand to the event coordinators. In total three of GFS employees
volunteered over 40 hours to this cause.
We are honored to have contributed to the success of an event that brought in over $100k to the
local community fighting cancer.
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3. Survivors relay
● We supported
the relay by
volunteering
many hours. We
attended the
relay and also
helped while
sharing stories
and creating
strong bonds
with our
community.

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Police Athletic League Partnership
We have been involved with the PAL program for a few years, this year we added them to one of
the Non Profit organizations we donate to from our spoilage and damaged items. We have been
able to provide many key items for their events. We also volunteered and attended their Inaugural
Golf Charity to benefit the PAL, helping raising a great amount of funds for this great cause.
We are very grateful to have contributed to the success of many events, We have also created
strong bonds with the local Police Departments, including the director of the PAL program for
South Florida and the Chief of Police for the City of North Miami Beach. We have become a go to
destination for local officials.
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6. Police
Partnership
● We support our
local law
enforcement and
seek to build
strong bonds and
programs that
help the kids in
our community
and make our
neighborhoods
safer.

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Letters from the PAL and Police Departments

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Partnership with local schools
We have been involved with the local schools, where we have volunteered in many events,
including their Fall Festival, Junior Achievement courses, and we partnered up with one of our
customer to provide food and refreshments for the Teachers welcome back lunch.
We contributed to the success of many events, We have also created strong bonds with the local
schools putting our company brand as a staple of Hollywood’s go-to places for their needs. This
has increased purchasing at our store significantly from parents and teachers, and administration.
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10. Local School
Partnerships
● We seek to do as
much as we can
for kids in our
communities.
This partnership
has helped many,
as well as it has
put the Gordon
Brand in-front of
our parents and
teachers, where
we have become
a shopping
destination.

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Partnership with Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge came to our location 3 times last year to sell books outside, or other items, looking
to create awareness for abuse to women and children. This organization is a very private
organization as they help people who might be in abusive relationships and for that reason we do
not take any pictures of their volunteers at our store. This is a heartfelt charity as any fundraising
activities help those women in distress. We also donated goods for a yearly event they do at a local
park for kids in our community.
Teen Challenge and GFS have built a strong relationship over time, which impacts them
tremendously because it is due to charity and goodwill that they are able to help others. And we
continue to seek to be partners to help with this great cause. We have also become their main
vendor for the many homes that they have to shelter people in their program.
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14. Teen
Challenge
● Teen Challenge is
a faith based
organization that
helps young
women get back
on their feet after
going through
abuse, drugs, or
any type of
destructive
behavior.

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Partnership with Church/Local Hurricane Shelter
As we found out that Hurricane Irma would be hitting our area very heavily, we were advised to
dispose or donate of any product that would spoil during the time that we would be closed. At that
time, all of our regular scheduled donation pick ups were closed due to the storm, we decided to
not let the product go to waste and reached out until we found an organization that would pick up
the product.
This Church/Shelter was very happy about the donations, and fed over 100 people that came for
shelter to their location. They told me that they prayed for our safety and our business, and also
sent us pictures in appreciation of what we had done.
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18. Hurricane Irma
Donations
● Here is Store
Manager
Thomas,
Anthony, and Jay
loading up the
donation truck.
Very happy that
we were able to
contribute to a
greater cause.

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Partnership with Ft. Lauderdale Evangelical Baptist Church
Pastor Waldeck Luma, came to our location asking for donations, we enrolled him in our
spoilage/damaged product donation process. Through time we found that this church has a great
program where they feed the community every Sunday. Pastor Luma was delighted to find out
about our Christian Values as an organization and has build a very strong relationship with the
store team. Thomas Gonzalez Hollywood Store Manager has been guest speaker at their Church
various times. He has talked about his trajectory building a career through retail to the youth, as
well as talked about christian values, faith, and servant leadership.
This organization has been able to feed hundreds of people through our donations, as well as
their congregation has been witness of our culture, love, and compassion for others.
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21. Baptist Church
Partnership
Pastor Luma also has
an online radio
station where he
preaches to the local
Haitian American
community. He prays
for GFS on the radio
show and thanks us
for the support to the
community weekly.

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Partnership with Red Chair Catering, and The Ft. Lauderdale Air
Show Hosted by the US Navy
We partnered up with Red Chair Catering to contribute to the success of this amazing event for the
community. We sold them all the product for the event through the store, we were able to rent
them a trailer (which served as huge advertisement) and also the store team volunteered to spend
the day at the show, representing our brand, and helping the show be a success.
This organization benefited from our volunteer help, as well as we have contributed to building
our partnership and putting our brand front and center of this very frequented local event.
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23. Airshow
Partnership
● Here is the Red
Chair, and
Hollywood Store
team
collaborating for
community event
Ft. Lauderdale Air
Show.

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Partnership with Gordon Food Service Hollywood Associates
When we talk about culture, and community involvement most of the time with think about
outreach. I strongly believe that culture begins with us. As we teach our people what culture is, we
need to recognize our differences and celebrate them actively. This is a prime example of events
that brought to life our culture and celebrated our differences in 2017.
Gordon Food Service Hollywood store grew through these activities. Our associates become more
loyal to our organization. This has long term effects on our store, where people feel more
committed, creating higher productivity, and less turnover. It also sets a high standard for our
culture and values as a company to anyone who participated, and their network.
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26. Hollywood
Store Culture
● We celebrated
our Diversity for
hispanic Heritage
Month with a Pot
Luck meal from
all the variety of
countries and
heritage
represented at
our store.

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St. Patty’s day celebration

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Diversity Month Activity