One of the unique aspects of Trinity Logistics is our value of servant leadership. We believe it’s not just about what you accomplish, but who you lift up, who you make better, and how you give back. Trinity Logistics has always been heavily involved in our local communities throughout the years, so one year, we decided to streamline our efforts. In 2005, we formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization named the Trinity Foundation. 

HOW THIS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IS UNIQUE

The Trinity Foundation is somewhat unique, as it’s entirely operated by Trinity Team Members. Trinity’s Team Members are passionate about serving others, and the Trinity Foundation strives to benefit causes they believe in. All community service and charitable giving from Trinity Logistics funnel through our non-profit organization, the Trinity Foundation.

While all Team Members have the opportunity to serve their time or make monetary donations to the Trinity Foundation, there is a subset group, or Board of Team Members, who organize the Trinity Foundation’s fundraising events and giving, which are fueled by the desire to better our local communities. These Team Members apply for a position and are voted in to serve two-year terms on the Trinity Foundation Board and Sub-Board.

THE TRINITY FOUNDATION’S CORE FOCUS AREAS

Every organization has a powerful purpose, and our purpose is reflected through our three core focus areas that guide our efforts to continually improve the lives of others by serving and investing in our communities. Those core focus areas are;

Health and Wellness

This focus area is to encourage and aid in good health and wellness among our community members. This can involve efforts such as holding our annual 5K promoting movement and heart health or holding blood drives to support our medical community. 

Youth Leadership Development

Youth leadership development supports aiding in the growth of leadership and building a future of strong community members by helping our youth and promoting continued education. This can include efforts such as building relationships with local schools and assisting in their needs, sponsoring camps, offering scholarships, or hosting leadership conferences. 

Community Necessities

Community necessities is a focus area in which we invest and donate to those in need. We aim to improve and strengthen our local communities through efforts such as monetary donations or sponsorships made to support local organizations, providing a monthly meal or much-needed goods to shelters, and providing gifts and necessities to families in need during the holiday season.

OUR MAIN EFFORTS AND FUNDRAISERS

While we host many different events and fundraisers to support our core focus areas, we have several large efforts that we take part in annually. 

Thanksgiving For All

Thanksgiving For All logo includes a brown circle with vector images of a pear, apple, peas, and wheat in the middle and the words Thanksgiving For All at the top.

Every November, we partner with the Food Bank of Delaware and Love Inc of Mid-Delmarva to provide Thanksgiving meals to our local community members in need. 

We purchase boxes of non-perishable Thanksgiving-themed items from the Food Bank, Perdue donates roasting chickens, and our Team Members help pack the boxes and distribute them.

On average, we help 300 families a year.

Trinity Foundation members are smiling and packing food items into boxes for Thanksgiving For All recipients.
Trinity Foundation members are outside in the Trinity Logistics parking lot, standing next to a table full of frozen chickens and pallets of boxes of Thanksgiving meals to hand out Thanksgiving For All recipients.
Trinity Foundation members are packing food items into boxes for Thanksgiving For All recipients.

Christmas Families

The Christmas Families logo is green and in the shape of a tree but each tree layer is made up of parent and children stick figures holding hands and with red hearts. At the top of the tree is a yellow star. The trunk of the tree is Christmas Family Project written in brown.

Each year around the holidays, and with the help of Love Inc of Mid-Delmarva, we adopt families for our Team Members to shop for gifts for them. The adoptees are kept anonymous, and Team Members buy presents based on the wants and needs of family members.

In 2021, we adopted 23 families, and every child received a coat, a pair of shoes, outfits, and four to five toys. 

Two photos show bags upon bags of donated toys around a Christmas Tree. There are also a few bikes pictured.
A Trinity Foundation member is shown standing in a store next to a shopping cart full of toys and holding a box of diapers, a box of wipes, and a baby onesie.
Several cardboard boxes are pictured against a white wall. Each box is labeled with an age and M or F for male or female. Each box is full of items like toys or clothing.

Heart and Sole 5K

The Heart and Sole 5k logo is pictured. The logo is a vector heart shape and red with rough edges. Inside the heart on the left is a shoe print with a heart on the sole. On the right side it reads Heart & Sole 5k.

This fundraising event started back in 2010 by a small gathering of runners to raise money for a worthwhile cause. In the early years, funds were raised for Tidalhealth’s cardiac rehabilitation efforts. In the past few years, we were presented with opportunities to help raise funds for family members of Trinity Logistics Team Members battling cancer. 

The image shows many runners on a street road with a sidewalk and trees in the background.
The image shows many walkers on a street road with a sidewalk and trees in the background. One man in a blue shirt is smiling and pointing towards the camera.

Big Pink Volleyball

The Big Pink Volleyball logo is a pink vector circle. Inside that is a smaller white circle outline. Inside that is a much thicker circle outline with the words Big Pink in white on top and Volleyball in white on the bottom. In the middle on each side of the outline are two pink vector breast cancer ribbons surround by white. Inside the thick pink circle outline is a white circle in the center, filled with an image of an outlined volleyball going over a net.

Big Pink Volleyball is an annual fundraising event that we began in 2014 to raise funds for breast cancer charities. Trinity Team Members and any local participants can sign up to compete in a volleyball tournament as teams. But wait, there’s a fun catch! THE BIG PINK BALL. It’s a fun day for all.

The photo is located in a high school gym. On each side of a volleyball net are team members, one side with grey shirts, the other side with pink shirts. At the top of the net is a huge pink ball and on either side of it is a person from each team jumping to hit the ball.
A group of participants pose for a picture surrounding the big pink volleyball with the event logo on a banner hanging on the white wall behind them.
The photo is located in a high school gym. On each side of a volleyball net are team members, one side with pink shirts, the other side with dark grey shirts. On the opposite side of the net, you can see the pink volleyball in the air, coming towards pink shirt team member, bracing to hit it, with other pink shirt team members surrounding them.

Golf Tournament

The Trinity Foundation Golf Tournament logo is a circle shaped vector. The top half is black and the bottom half is dark green. In the middle is a white shaped golf club with a white ball on top of a green tee pictured. Below the circle logo are the words Golf Tournament written in black.

This fundraising event started in 2005 and has remained our largest fundraising event each year since. Trinity Team Members and any local participants can sign up to compete in a golf tournament locally held at Heritage Shores in Bridgeville, Delaware. 

In 2021, we were able to raise $30,000 with funds going towards our efforts to continue our mission of improving lives by serving and investing in our communities.

Pictured are two female Trinity Foundation member volunteers in black shirts, smiling and standing on either side of a golf cart. Heritage Shores houses are in the background.
Pictured is a team of golf participants standing posed together with their golf clubs and smiling, on the green grass, with a pond behind them and their golf cart to their left.
Pictured is a young man on the green in a stance with his club that looks like he is about to hit the ball. In the background is more grass, trees, and a pond.

Servant Leader Scholarships

Pictured is a Trinity Foundation member pictured standing net to a young man in a red graduating cap and gown, receiving the Servant Leader Scholarship.
Pictured is a Trinity Foundation member standing next to a young woman receiving the Servant Leader Scholarship.
Pictured is a Trinity Foundation member standing next to a young woman receiving the Servant Leader Scholarship.

One way we support our core focus area of Youth Leadership is through our annual Servant Leader Scholarships for graduating high school seniors. This scholarship aims to give young people – the leaders who will build and shape our communities while displaying Servant Leadership – every opportunity to be prepared for the future. This scholarship is one way we strive to engage youth in their communities to continuously improve their self-esteem, develop a sense of citizenship and an ethic of service, and become stronger leaders of our future. Recipients are chosen by a committee of Trinity Foundation members and are granted one scholarship to go towards their post-secondary school tuition.

Other Efforts

All of Trinity’s Regional Service Centers are encouraged to take part in this non-profit organization and suggest or offer other community efforts that support our core focus areas. In addition to our main initiatives, we also accept donation requests and because of this, there is so much more that we do beyond these annual events. For example, the Trinity Foundation has helped local schools with supplies, packed and donated bags of essential supplies for the homeless, volunteered at homeless shelters, made and donated peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to local shelters, sent boxes of goodies to soldiers, and more. 

Pictured is a lot of priority mail boxes decorated with gift wrap on the inside and filled with items like snacks, sanitary items, and other necessities to be shipped off to those serving overseas during the holidays.
Pictured is a young man in a military uniform holding open a box decorated with gift wrap on the inside and full of items like snacks and sanitary goods.
Pictured are three young men standing outside on gravel in military uniforms. They are holding the mailboxes full of goodies sent to them from the Trinity Foundation.

Operation: Trinity cares is where the Trinity Foundation collects and sends boxes of goodies to those serving overseas during the holidays.

Pictured is a young woman smiling and sitting inside, waiting to donate blood for the blood drive.
Pictured is the Blood Bank of Delmarva medical bus in which they use to make participants comfortable while they are donating blood.
Pictured is a man sitting at a table covered in a red tablecloth and using a laptop. Standing in front of him is a young man smiling as he signs up to donate blood.

The Trinity Foundation hosting a blood drive.

A young woman stands in front of a grave with a Christmas wreath laying down in front of it. Behind her are rows of graves with wreaths.
A young woman places a Christmas wreath in front of a grave, with rows of graves and Christmas wreaths behind her.
Participating Trinity Foundation members stand together for a group picture, holding Christmas wreaths they will be placing on soldiers' graves. All are bundled up for cold weather.

The Trinity Foundation participating in Wreaths Across America.

Pictured is a young woman smiling and filling up a backpack with school supplies. Pictured in front of her is a long table full of school supplies.
Several Trinity Foundation members are pictured at a local school holding filled backpacks that they are donating.
Trinity Foundation members are standing next to a local school representative, with the school mascot that is a blue jay behind them. In front of them is a push cart full of boxes that are filled with school supplies and backpacks.

The Trinity Foundation bought and collected donations of school supplies to fill backpacks to support our local schools. 0

To stay on top of what the Trinity Foundation has been up to lately, or to get involved, visit our Facebook page. 

WE COULDN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!

We place emphasis on the fact that our non-profit organization belongs to the entire company and is comprised of each and every Trinity Logistics Team Member. However, it doesn’t stop with our Team because we couldn’t do everything we do without our community supporters! 

Each event and fundraiser’s purpose is to make a positive impact on our communities and help our friends and families locally. Many of our neighbors and corporate partners look forward to these opportunities to give back, and we have plenty of those available! 

Ways to Support Trinity’s Non-profit Organization, the Trinity Foundation

MADE A DONATION SHOP VIA AMAZONSMILE

Support us while you shop! Select the Trinity Foundation (located in Seaford, DE) as your AmazonSmile charity!

FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK

Stay up to date on what the Trinity Foundation is currently working on and how you can get involved, whether that includes donating much needed items, signing up to participate, or becoming an event sponsor!