Before the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, a lot of care goes into filling them – especially when those stockings come from TECO team members committed to doing good things in the community for people in need.
The company’s Credit & Collections team closed out a big year of helping disadvantaged Tampa Bay-area residents with a stuff-a-stocking drive that produced more than 700 holiday stockings filled with toys for children. The Salvation Army will distribute the stockings to families struggling to find the money to buy gifts.
“With the help of Simone Torres and her Pepin Academy students – who are such a great presence at TECO for a wide variety of roles that they fill – we were able to load a Salvation Army truck with 729 filled stockings (and lots of extra toys too big to fit in the stockings),” said Lori O’Keefe, supervisor of Credit & Collections.
O’Keefe praised the work of members of her team and others from around the company who took the time and effort to fill their stockings. In particular, she thanked Coordinator of Credit & Collections Gerri Drummond (a liaison to the Salvation Army for TECO) as well as Debbie Fagan, senior projects & process analyst; credit & collections investigators Brandi Scott, Chris Stoney and Wil Carrera; Taylor Leggatt, customer engineering rep; and Tim Griffin, senior mail processor. Each played a key role in the getting the stockings organized, filled and to their destination at the Salvation Army.
“TECO is fortunate to have team members at all levels that make it their mission to help those in need,” O’Keefe said. “In Credit & Collections, you could say we’re well-positioned to see firsthand what it’s like for people struggling to get by, so we’ve become used to jumping into volunteer efforts like stuff-a-stocking. But it’s the strength of the entire company filled with people who believe in helping the community that really makes the difference.”
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