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This Thanksgiving, the Pacific Point Hawaii team worked in tandem with their client, St. Francis Healthcare System, to deliver meals to those in need. Each person loaded up their car with meals from their designated restaurant and completed much anticipated deliveries on their assigned route throughout Oahu.
Very early in the COVID-19 crisis, Pacific Point worked with St. Francis to design and implement a solution for St. Francis’ meal delivery program based on Salesforce Health Cloud and Field Service Lightning. With Stay-at-Home orders in place, it was clear that seniors were not only at a higher risk of the virus, but also at a higher risk of not being able to meet their nutritional needs since maintaining social distancing was critical to their health and safety. The tech-based meal delivery solution allowed St. Francis to streamline meal request intake and manage food deliveries in real time from each driver’s mobile device, helping to ensure meals would reach those who needed them.
By volunteering their time with St. Francis on Thanksgiving Day, the Pacific Point team got to experience the meal delivery solution in action. In addition, team members experienced how the work they do has a positive impact on their community; in this case, helping seniors receive healthy and delicious meals while staying safe.
“This was a wonderful program to participate in, and especially meaningful for us on Thanksgiving as we reflect on all we have to be grateful for,” said Pacific Point CEO, Deena Tearney.
There are many reasons for charitable giving and many ways to give. Pacific Point is a firm believer in giving back through non-profits and educational programs in all the cities they have offices, which is why Pacific Point has been giving back since their inception and officially joined the Pledge 1% movement last year.
It has been harder in 2020 to find ways to donate time since many go-to outlets for volunteerism involve in-person contact that just doesn’t work during a pandemic. But giving back has never been so important. Pacific Point was thrilled to find a way to give back while keeping both their team-members and the people they helped safe. The fact that in the process the team also got a chance to feel great about the good that can come from their work was the icing on the cake…. or rather the whipped cream on the pumpkin pie.
