What we’re doing for our communities

AJC Logistics is known for our employees’ willingness to help customers and partners whenever needed, often during hours that are outside our normal workdays. Being helpful goes beyond our business world. Through AJC Cares, our charitable outreach organization, all companies in the AJC Group support a number of worldwide charitable activities. In addition, AJC employees proudly donate their own personal time and money to help people in the communities where we live and work.

“AJC Cares is built on our long tradition of giving back and paying it forward,” said Tina Sorrels, who has participated in that tradition throughout her 42 years with AJC.  

As AJC Group’s Director of Philanthropy and Corporate Secretary, she oversees a large number of initiatives that feed, shelter and support thousands of children, women with breast cancer, and other people in need.

Because transporting food is a major part of AJC Group’s business, we make food a key part of AJC Cares outreach programs, too. Every year, with help from our vendors, we supply over 80,000 pounds of proteins to feed 6,000 children at the Children Restoration Network’s 143 shelters. And AJC has joined with global companies like PepsiCo, Tyson and Starbucks to support Feed the Children’s worldwide activities.

“Over the years, our employees have generated millions of dollars in funding for charitable organizations,” said Sorrels.  “But our commitment doesn’t stop with money donations. Employees and their families gladly provide thousands of hours of their personal time to help people in their communities.”

As one example, AJC Cares sponsors a Family Craft Night each month at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Children's Hospital so that sick children and their families can share a joyful hour. 

Employees and their families also have fun internal events to raise funds and make things for children. Some also participate in Susan G. Komen fund-raising walks and races to find cures for cancer, with AJC matching their donations.

To highlight everyone’s collective efforts—which transcend our worldwide locations—AJC Cares chose this theme: “We are all in this together.” That includes all the people who inspire AJC Cares—such as the child with a rare disease, the young mother with breast cancer, and the 12 year-old boy in foster care.