You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get when someone ahead of you in the drive thru line pays for your order? Last year, as the COVID19 pandemic drug on, we introduced our Frontline Fighters scholarship program and the OKC community responded. We have one donor who sends a partial $10 donation each month to allow her contributions to help more people; thus far, this donor has provided partial payment assistance to nine individuals! A few others have paid in full for another's BLS Provider (CPR for healthcare personnel and the minimum requirement for anyone in a health career) certification.
But the story we want to tell today is that of a customer named Lisa. We met Lisa back in January when she was a healthcare professional unemployed due to COVID19 impacting her field and looking for work; in order to gain new employment, she needed not only BLS but also ACLS certifications. Around the same time, we had someone who donated $100 toward a scholarship for someone who needed assistance. We matched up Cathryn's donation and covered the first $100 of Lisa's class fees.
What we didn't know until recently was that when Lisa was blessed with Cathryn's scholarship, she made a promise to herself that if she got a job she was interviewing for, she planned to pay it forward and help someone else when she found work and began getting paychecks. Well, Lisa reached out to us last week with her good news...she found a great job and was ready to pay it forward; in fact, she was going to not only repay the $100 that blessed her when she needed, but she rolled that into $300 to help others! We have front row seats to watch the Oklahoma Standard in practice and couldn't be prouder to watch what the community can do when given the tools and an idea.
To assist those who are helping others get their required certifications during this ongoing pandemic that is once again ramping up, we offer a 10% discount to help their contributions go even further. Donors can choose how their scholarship is used...to a particular individual, employer, department, facility, specialty, zip code, or just about any other way they choose to select recipients; some even choose to remain anonymous and we honor that request as well when matching up their donations to recipients. To learn more about the program, see this past blog post: https://heartland-cpr.blogspot.com/2020/04/frontline-fighters-scholarships.html
If you or your business would like to get involved with our Frontline Fighters scholarship program, reach out to us today and find out what your contribution can do for a neighbor impacted in one of the many ways COVID19 is changing the landscape of our medical community.
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- Ginger Davis
Heartland CPR, llc
405-603-6666
www.HeartlandCPR.com
