PGT Innovations’ Team Members Donate Backpacks for Local At-Risk Children

More than 25 team members and leaders at PGT Innovations’ (NYSE: PGTI) North Venice location worked together to assemble and deliver SchoolTools backpacks to make a difference in the lives of local children in need through World Vision, a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

For the 10th consecutive year, PGT Innovations has donated backpacks and school supplies through World Vision, with this year’s contribution totaling $6,000. The company’s employees filled 250 backpacks with notes of encouragement and supplies, such as notebooks, binders, pens, pencils, packs of filler paper, pencil pouches, folders, pencil sharpeners, erasers, rulers, crayons, glue sticks, scissors and markers.

PGT Innovations’ company leaders and team members delivered the backpacks to students at Garden Elementary in Sarasota County on Friday, August 23.

“Thank you so much to PGT Innovations and World Vision for their generosity,” said Amy Archer, Principal at Garden Elementary, during the donation event. “We are so incredibly blessed to live in a community that supports the work we do. Garden Elementary appreciates it.”

Across the county, businesses, schools and groups of all kinds are rolling up their sleeves and joining the ongoing SchoolTools campaign, which helps at-risk children. While a simple effort, new school supplies inspire and encourage children to engage in learning and invoking creativity.

“For the past decade, PGT Innovations’ team members have participated in this much-needed program,” said Debbie LaPinska, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at PGT Innovations. “It’s important to us to support these children and provide supplies to help set the foundation for a brighter future.”