Month: November 2021

The IDEX Team in Northbrook, Illinois, received an award from Kids Above All’s Board of Trustees and Staff at an annual Gala event this month.

The Lucy Rider Meyer Humanitarian Award, which is named after the organization’s founder, recognizes the accomplishments of key local, national and international leaders, organizations, and corporations who enhance the ability of children and their families to achieve their potential, help youth heal from past trauma, realize their value, and enable families to achieve a sense of social, emotional, and physical well-being.

“IDEX proudly supports Kids Above All and its work to help Chicago kids who have experienced trauma, including providing housing assistance, therapy resources and technology enhancements,” IDEX Chief Financial Officer Bill Grogan said. “We look forward to expanding our involvement, especially as opportunities for in-person volunteerism become possible again.”

IDEX Corporate began partnering with the KAA in 2020. Partnering with the IDEX Foundation, the team donated $55,000 USD for Technology, Housing, and Group Therapy for at-risk youth in the Chicagoland community. The team is preparing to begin the annual holiday gift drive to help more children near the Headquarters.

“In the past two years, IDEX has made a difference for nearly client and staff member at Kids Above All, supporting the organization’s diversity, equity, inclusion and access efforts and our Early Childhood, Emerge, Group Homes and Camp Sheilah programs, as well as providing gifts for our kids during the holidays and hygiene kits for our young people in foster care,” the Kids Above All award states. “IDEX’s leadership truly reflects the spirit of our founder, Lucy Rider Meyer, who dedicated her life to ensuring that children achieve their full potential, and we cannot you enough for your dedication to our mission.”

Watch the acceptance video below with IDEX Chief Financial Officer Bill Grogan to learn more about the partnership.

IDEX’s Accelerating Management Potential (I-AMP), recently partnered with Advanced Thin Films (ATF) to provide new furniture for the Boulder Bridge House Ready to Work (RTW) facility in Colorado.

The I-AMP cohort capstone team, led by Clarissa Bradfield, Dalton Geraldo, Rachel Otte, and Wafa Yakhlif, planned and organized a two-day event to build replacement furniture for RTW, but only needed a day to complete the project.

At the event, 24 employees from ATF helped unpack and prepare more than 40 dressers and nightstands for members of the RTW facility!

“It was amazing to watch ATF employees use teamwork to provide new furniture for BBH. Witnessing the residents fill dressers and nightstands with their belongings and smiles on their faces, was an amazing experience,” said Mary Zsigmond, Inside Sales Supervisor at ATF.

Ready to Work is a “work-first” approach to addressing homelessness. Ready to Work offers 1 year of housing, employment, support for adults experiencing homelessness and is the only holistic model in Colorado focused on addressing homelessness through social enterprise.

Ready to Work operates in 2 communities in Metro Denver. After 7 years in Boulder, Bridge House replicated the model in Aurora, CO, which expands its presence from a capacity of 44 in Boulder to 94 in the region.

IDEX Corporation ranks among the top 1 percent of all Industrial Manufacturing employers, according to anonymous reviewers on Glassdoor, the review site for jobs and companies.

“The dedication our IDEX teams have shown to advancing our culture, making our company a place where people can do and be their best is clearly visibly when reading reviews and seeing what employees past and present say about us on Glassdoor,” IDEX Chief Human Resources Officer Melissa Flores said. “We’re thrilled to have our culture shine through in this way.”

Click here to look at IDEX’s Glassdoor page.

Sunlight is now providing more than 10 percent of the electricity needs at the IDEX facility in Vadodara, India, after a successful installation of rooftop solar panels last month.​​​​​​​

Team members recently celebrated the install with a blessing of the control panel, which included decorating it with marigold flowers. Marigold flowers are often used in Indian culture because they represent the sun, symbolizing brightness, and positive energy.

The roof of the Gurukul & Canteen facility includes 248 photovoltaic (PV) solar panels that can generate 400 KWh every day. It’s estimated the solar array will save the facility in Vadodara more than $16,000 USD in the first year alone.

“Our Continuous focus to save energy and improve the environment helped us to install a 100kW solar farm and reduce our carbon footprint. This small step reduces the use of non-renewable energy by 12%,” said Senior Engineer, Jignesh Varmora.

Team members involved in the project also include Facility Manager, Vijay Patel and Environmental, Health & Safety Leader, Tithi Shah.