Farmington, Conn. (Sept 27, 2024)KBE Foundation’s mission of community support this summer included everything from serving BBQ lunches to veterans and their families to helping land fish at the Special Olympics fishing derby to hosting its annual charity golf tournament to provide scholarships to technical high school students.

The KBE Foundation is a registered non-profit charitable organization established in affiliation with the KBE Building Corporation to continue KBE’s long history of philanthropic giving. The Foundation provides financial support and volunteer staff for charitable events, with  more than $4.2 million in community support since 2009. (www.kbefoundation.org)

The Foundation’s latest endeavors include:

 

Special Olympics Unified Fishing Tournament
Farmington, CT

In August, a group of KBE staff and their families headed to the Farmington Polo Grounds in Farmington, CT to support the Special Olympics Unified Fishing Tournament. KBE was the founding sponsor for the event, now in its seventh year. The fishing tournament draws Special Olympians from around the country. The volunteers worked with the athletes on all aspects of fishing in the freshly  stocked pond, from baiting hooks to shouting encouragement when someone hooks a fish.

KBE volunteers help support the athletes at the seventh annual Unified Fishing Tournament at the Special Olympics at the Farmington Polo Grounds in Farmington, CT.

 


Veterans Center | Mission BBQ
Newington, CT

In September, the Foundation continued its tradition of serving lunch to veterans and their families, along with staff, at the state-run Veterans Center in Newington, CT. At its fifth annual event on September 11, KBE volunteers served 200+ veterans and their family members and facilities staff with a terrific lunch catered by Mission BBQ.

The KBE team served more than 200 meals to veterans, their families, and staff at the VA Center in Newington, CT – an annual program hosted by the KBE Foundation since 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The KBE team served more than 200 meals to veterans, their families, and staff at the VA Center in Newington, CT – an annual program hosted by the KBE Foundation since 2019.

 

KBE Foundation 8th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
Waterbury, CT
First held in 2015, our annual golf event has drawn hundreds of golfers and raised thousands of dollars for our technical high school scholarship program. This year’s day-long event, held again at the Country Club of Waterbury on September 16 – with perfect weather – hosted more than one hundred golfers. To date, the Foundation has provided $150,000 in scholars to 137 Connecticut technical high school seniors pursuing construction careers. Uniquely, these scholarships are designed to encourage young women and men to enter the construction trades as well as construction  management programs. The dollars can be used to purchase tools, trade licensing and certifications, and tuition for safety / trade skill training, as well as tuition for college-based construction management programs.

 

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About KBE:  www.kbebuilding.com

KBE Building Corporation is a national commercial construction services firm strategically positioned to serve clients through its regional offices in Connecticut, Arizona, Maryland, and New York.

 

Our 170+ preconstruction and construction staff provide preconstruction, construction management, design-build, and general contracting services to clients throughout the US in the senior living, educational, retail, health care, federal, corporate, hospitality & entertainment, and institutional markets.

In 2022, KBE launched the KBE Foundation (kbefoundation.org) to formalize the firm’s long tradition of community support, which has donated more than $4.2 million since 2009. www.kbefoundation.org

Founded in 1959 and incorporated in 1966, KBE annually manages $400 – $500 million in construction volume and is ranked among Engineering News-Record magazine’s top 400 construction companies nationally.