Community Relations

We know that giving back to our community and to humanity is the highest form of citizenship. The Bennett Packaging and Displays ownership, management, and employees have adopted this philanthropic philosophy.

Hurricane Katrina relief is an example of our employees care and concern. In response, we immediately mobilized, coordinating pick-up sites and delivering the donated supplies. Our estimate is that we collected and delivered ten tractor trailer loads consisting of more than 400,000 pounds of diapers, water, food, soap, and many other items. In addition, employees donated money which the company matched. Later, when company ownership saw the news stories about the abandoned animals roaming the streets in New Orleans, the company donated corrugated boxes and worked with local animal clinics to fill them with supplies. We also donated over 5000 boxes to the Salvation Army. But the commitment didn't stop there - the company posted job opportunities for evacuees, and even permanently hired one person who had lost everything. 

Some of the many charitable causes and organizations that Bennett Packaging and Displays has supported include:

  • IEEW's Peace Through Business initiative, mentoring women business owners in Rwanda and Afghanistan
  • Companion Dogs for Veterans
  • Newhouse shelter
  • Wayside Waifs
  • YMCA
  • Boy Scouts
  • Lions Club charities
  • Salvation Army
  • Wayside Waifs
  • Kansas Special Olympics
  • Hospice care providers
  • Adopting families at Christmas
  • Santa's workshop for kids and grandkids of our employees
  • Little League teams too numerous to count!

One of the most heartwarming charitable projects we have done recently was assembling nearly 1000 packages of soap, toothpaste, and food to send to our troops in Iraq. Our employees wrote cards of encouragement and decorated the boxes and provided them to the military for shipping overseas.

Photos:  Women business owners from Afghanistan and Rwanda, and Kathy Bennett with the Afghan Ambassador to the United States, Amb. Said Jawad.  

We support the idea that an economically sound country has a much greater capacity for peace. The best way to develop economic stability is to build a solid middle class through the largest population demographic - women! That is why we support Peace Through Business, a program of The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW) to help establish financial stability and the transformation of war-torn countries that are in the rebuilding process. This training program is designed to provide long-term business education to women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and Rwanda.