Local Insurance Company Gives Boost to Area Children

May 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Employees from BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company will be volunteering their time at Children’s Advocacy Center’s Pine Manor After-School Program and East United Way House, as a part of BB&T’s third annual Lighthouse Project. The employee-based teams select a project to assist a non-profit agency in the months of May and June. “We wanted to work with Children’s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida because of the services they provide to abused and neglected children in the our community,” said Stacey Mercado, Marketing/Sales Development Specialist, BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company. “We are pleased to be able to partner with them and help in any way we can.”

“We are thrilled that BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company chose Children’s Advocacy Center as this year’s partner agency.  In addition to providing homework help, reading buddies, and arts and crafts to the children attending the Pine Manor After-School Program, BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Company volunteers will be renovating the East United Way House to transform its emergency food pantry into a choice market,” noted CEO, Jill Turner. “BB&T volunteers will be working with us beginning May 4th through June 3rd.”

Since the beginning of the Lighthouse Project, BB&T employees have donated nearly 100,000 hours to help improve the lives of more than 3 million people in 25 states. Employees overwhelmingly voted to bring back the initiative this year. For more information about the Lighthouse Project, visit www.bbt.com/lighthouseproject/.

ABOUT BB&T-OSWALD TRIPPE AND COMPANY                        
Founded in 1982, Oswald Trippe and Company was the largest employee-owned insurance agency in Southwest Florida. In 2009, the company merged with BB&T Insurance Services to provide comprehensive insurance and risk-management services from the country’s leading insurance companies to families and businesses throughout Florida.

BB&T Insurance Services, the nation’s sixth largest insurance broker, is a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&T. Founded in 1922, it operates more than 100 insurance agencies in Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and California. Visit http://Insurance.BBT.com/ to learn more. BB&T Insurance Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Branch Banking & Trust Company.
     
ABOUT CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER
Children's Advocacy Center, a United Way partner agency, is a crisis center that works with sexually and physically abused children and is designed to be a safe and friendly place for them to come and be heard and help them get on the road to recovery. For more information, please call (239) 939-2808 or visit http://www.cac-swfl.org.