LP Building Solutions Forms Alliance with Gary Sinise Foundation

As the LP Foundation’s first national non-profit partner, the LP Foundation, LP Building Solutions’ non-profit giving subsidiary, has collaborated with the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. Program.

The LP Foundation and Trustees Teade Tagaloa, Jonathyn Truax, and Logan Parkhurst were thrilled to present the initial $100,000 donation cheque to the Gary Sinise Foundation in person last week at LP’s corporate office, together with LP Executive Vice President and CFO Alan Haughie.

“We are incredibly grateful to the LP Foundation for their generous donation that will go to support our nation’s most severely wounded heroes,” stated Gary Sinise, actor and humanitarian. “LP Foundation will assist us in providing specially fitted, mortgage-free homes for persons suffering from amputations, severe burns, paralysis, and traumatic brain injuries by supporting our Gary Sinise Foundation R.I.S.E. program. These personalized smart-technology homes are tailored for their specific needs and will help to restore their independence, allowing them to reclaim the ability to move forward in their lives, which they served to protect for us all.”

The Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. Program creates specially-adapted smart houses for seriously injured heroes, as well as home modifications, mobility equipment, and adapted cars for injured, wounded, ill, and/or aging heroes. The LP Foundation will make an annual financial donation to the R.I.S.E. Program, with anticipated cooperation extensions such as product donations in the works.

“The LP Foundation is a shining example of what it means to, as Gary would say, “do a little more” to support our veterans, heroes, defenders, and first responders, and we look forward to this great partnership,” said Donna Palmer, Executive Director of the Gary Sinise Foundation. “With the support of partners like LP Foundation who continue to step up to help us help our country’s heroes and their families, we will continue to expand our mission to serve and honor the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our country and communities.”

The collaboration with the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. Program coincides with the LP Foundation’s core donation area (Housing) and works in tandem with LP’s overarching goal of Building A Better WorldTM. The LP Foundation has a long history of assisting those in need in our communities; this relationship broadens the LP Foundation’s emphasis to a national level while allowing it to remain true to its objective of supporting the areas in which we live and work.

“We take a great deal of pride in the work the LP Foundation does,” stated Brad Southern, LP Chair and CEO. “A collaboration with the Gary Sinise Foundation to support the R.I.S.E. program is a big step forward in the Foundation’s national scope of operation. I am delighted about this new initiative and the meaningful work we will perform in collaboration with the Gary Sinise Foundation, in addition to the fantastic job the Foundation is doing in local mill communities.”

The LP Foundation is financing new builds for veterans and first responders in Republic, Missouri; Springfield, Oregon; Oconomowoc, Wisconsin; and locally, on a construction for US Army Sergeant (Retired) Joshua Hargis just outside Nashville.

“I can go everywhere in this house and enjoy being together with my family,” remarked Chief Warrant Officer 3 Romulo “Romy” Camargo at the recent dedication of his R.I.S.E. home. “Through voice automation, I can now complete tasks I was unable to do in my previous living situation.”

Since its start just months after the company’s formation in 1972, the LP Foundation has given over $20 million to deserving NGOs such as the Tennessee Wildlife Foundation, Harpeth Conservancy, Cumberland River Compact, and the Land Trust for Tennessee.