BigRentz Honored as a Civic 50 Contributor for Community Service
BigRentz was honored as one of the most community-minded companies in Orange County, Calif., and was named among ‘The Civic 50’ by The Orange County Business Journal. The prestigious award, in partnership with non-profit OneOC, provides a standard for superior corporate citizenship and showcases how companies use their time, skills and other resources to improve the quality of life in the communities in which they do business.
Companies were selected based on four dimensions of their community engagement programs: investment, integration, institutionalization, and impact.
BigRentz received recognition for its work with a number of local nonprofits and causes, including the American Cancer Society, the Movember Foundation and Habitat for Humanity. BigRentz’s most notable contribution was to Habitat for Humanity of Orange County. In addition to executives spending a day building frames for affordable housing, BigRentz also donated $25,000 towards the charity’s annual project, Leaders Build, which provides much needed low-cost homes.
“As a company that supplies the construction industry on a daily basis, we felt it is important for us to be supporting the trade, while also making a contribution to the needs of local residents,” said BigRentz CEO Scott Cannon. “Orange County is widely known as a costly place to reside, and we believe that projects like this are vital to the community to help ensure people have a decent place to live. We are committed to creating a culture of service in our organization, and we are so delighted that our staff is totally on board.”
Cannon and vice president of marketing Jim Arabia were presented with The Civic 50 achievement at a special awards ceremony in Irvine.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.