Easter Seals
For more than 85 years, Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and their families live better lives. Easter Seals provides top-quality, innovative services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals. For 21 years, the Alticor family of companies and Independent Business Owners (IBOs) have been a powerful force in support of Easter Seals. Quixtar continues that tradition as a national sponsor in the U.S. of Easter Seals and a presenting sponsor of Walk with Me, Easter Seals' signature fund-raising events held throughout the U.S.
Quixtar’s Canada's charity of choice, Easter Seals Canada is supported through a variety of programs and initiatives:
Quixtar Canada is a National Supporting Sponsor for the Easter Seals Drop Zone, an exciting fundraiser that allows average Canadian superheroes to trade in their suits and briefcases for helmets and harnesses and rappel down tall buildings in major urban Canadian centres.
Our ongoing Beauty Begins with Heart program donates proceeds from the purchases of selected Artistry®-branded items to be donated to Easter Seals Canada.
In addition, we offer our Independant Business Owners and customers the opportunity to support Easter Seals Canada through online donations directly from the Quixtar website.
Quixtar support for Easter Seals is part of Alticor's award-winning One by One program focusing global philanthropic efforts on the needs of children.
Beauty Begins with Heart
With the shared belief that true beauty comes from within, Artistry®, Quixtar's exclusive skin care and color cosmetics brand, is honored to partner with Easter Seals on Beauty Begins with Heart. This new charitable program provides opportunity, hope, and independence to thousands of children with disabilities.
The Artistry Beauty Begins with Heart program is one more way that Quixtar and Quixtar Canada supports Easter Seals.
US Dream Academy
Quixtar is proud to serve as a national sponsor of the U.S. Dream Academy. Established by renowned gospel singer Rev. Wintley Phipps in 1998, the U.S. Dream Academy empowers at-risk youth by providing them with academic, social, and values enrichment through supportive mentoring programs.
The U.S. Dream Academy places a special emphasis on children with an incarcerated parent, as studies show that these children are six times more likely to end up in prison one day. The U.S. Dream Academy also provides programs for children falling behind in school as these youth also are at higher risk for future incarceration.
Recognizing that the “digital divide” in many of the nation's disadvantaged communities further separates those that have from those that don't, the development of computer skills and access to the Internet are central elements of U.S. Dream Academy programs. The U.S. Dream Academy has 11 centers around the country that provide after-school programs using technology and one-to-one mentoring as key components of their intervention program.
Today Show Toy Drive
Since 2005 Quixtar has donated more than $2.4 million of products to the Today Show Toy Drive.
This donation is a public expression of Quixtar’s efforts to improve the well being of children around the world through its One by One Campaign for Children. It also demonstrates Quixtar’s support of the United States Direct Selling Association, whose member companies combined donation totals nearly $22 million in products and cash to the Today Show toy drive in recent years.
Hurricane Relief Efforts
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have caused unprecedented loss of life and devastation along the Gulf Coast of the United States. The people of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama have experienced tragedy and loss as their homes, communities, and families were abruptly torn apart. Many individuals and groups across the country quickly mobilized to help the people affected by this catastrophe, including Quixtar Inc. Through the collaboration of the owners, employees, and Independent Business Owners (IBOs), Quixtar and its parent company Alticor are working hard to provide support to the hurricane victims. In the days since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Quixtar has responded with the following efforts:
- An American Red Cross donation site was set up at www.Quixtar.com where IBOs, their customers and Quixtar and Alticor employees may contribute. Alticor will match IBO and employee donations up to a corporate total of $250,000.
- Alticor contributed an additional $250,000, divided between four organizations -- $75,000 each to American Red Cross and Salvation Army, and $50,000 each to International Aid and Bethany Christian Services.
- IBOs have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support of Hurricane Katrina victims. Enormous support continues to pour in from IBOs across the country.
- 20,000 personal care kits have been assembled for use by those displaced by the hurricane. These kits have a retail value of $480,000 and contain exclusive products such as GLISTER® toothpaste and toothbrushes, hand soap, SATINIQUE® shampoo, BODY SERIES™ deodorant, and L.O.C.® Multipurpose Cleaner wipes.
- The company also sent four trucks with 117,000 bottles of eSpring® water to International Aid's staging area in Mississippi within days of the disaster, and donated existing inventories of product to International Aid for use in their relief efforts.
- Another 25,000 bottles of shampoo, 25,000 bars of soap, 83,000 tubes of toothpaste, 48,000 toothbrushes, 31,000 water bottles and 11,000 cleaning kits have been sent to International Aid.
- Alticor's aviation unit has been flying medical personnel and supplies from West Michigan to Mississippi.
National Relief Network trips to the affected areas have been planned for October, Thanksgiving weekend, and the week of Thanksgiving. More than 200 employees and family members have signed on. At a time like this, it seems like no contribution could ever be enough, but together, this company and the IBOs it supports will continue to do their part to help those affected by this tragedy.
