Through a staff fundraising drive and a Corporate Health Partners Fitness Challenge FairPoint Communications has contributed over $52,000 to the Dowd and Stratford Richardson YMCA Community Outreach Campaign. At FairPoint they believe it is important to invest in individual health and well-being while investing in the community where they live and work.

To implement this philosophy they teamed up with the Dowd YMCA and the CMC Health Center to participate in our first ever Corporate Health Partners Fitness Challenge. Based on the achievement of challenge participants FairPoint made a donation to the YMCA Community Outreach Campaign. In this challenge, employees earned points for strength training, cardiovascular training, visits to the Y, and percentage of weight loss. At the end of the three month challenge FairPoint employees earned enough points to award the YMCA a gift of $15,000. That gift combined with their staff fundraising, in which the company made a matching gift, generated a total gift of $52,856.

What an incredible impact this group of individuals and this organization has made!

Headquartered in Charlotte, FairPoint Communications is a leading provider of communications services to rural communities. They offer a wide array of services to residential and business customers including: local voice, long distance and data products.

Since their first acquisition in 1993, their focus has been, first and foremost, to serve the unique needs of their customers. Communications have changed drastically over the past decade, and will continue to change in the future. FairPoint stays close to their customers and communities while continuing to provide and improve on the highest-quality service and products they will need for years to come.

Thank You FairPoint for being so innovative and supportive of our outreach programs.

For more information about FairPoint Communications visit their website at www.fairpoint.com.