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“ Our community work is something that we’ ve done for a long time and that we’ re very proud of. That’ s part of The Klosterman Way – to do work that we’ re proud of, not just with our customers but with our local communities,” Dale says.“ During Hurricanes Milton and Helene, we worked with Matthew 25: Ministries, a humanitarian aid and disaster relief nonprofit in Cincinnati, to ship bread to communities impacted by the disasters.
“ We’ ve also continued supporting Pink Ribbon Good, an Ohio-based organization providing free direct services to families impacted by breast cancer and women’ s reproductive cancer. This will be our 13th year partnering with them. Our support is mostly in kind donations; however, we also sponsor one of their biggest fundraisers in Cincinnati.”
Passion for people
As well as supporting its local communities, Klosterman is also keen to extend the love to its own workforce. One recent development in alignment with this is the company’ s recent collaboration with Xavier University to provide relevant leadership training to its own shining stars.
“ We’ ve worked in partnership with Xavier University to develop a middle management training program. It’ s going to run as a two-day session and, at the end, attendees will receive a prestigious qualification from Xavier. We’ re just about to launch the program, with 30 of our middle management leaders entering the first phase,” Dale affirms.“ Everybody who’ s attending has received a personal invite
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