Employees of Clayton Homes in Oxford spend their days building homes in their off-site facility. But last month, a five-member team spent the day working to build a ramp at the home of a single mom in the area.
The Clayton Home employees volunteered with Rebuilding Hope Inc, a Henderson-based nonprofit organization that makes home repairs for those who cannot make the repairs themselves.
The event was so successful, said Clayton’s meda contact Caitlin Crosby, that there’s a wait list for the next five-member team to volunteer. The plan is to have one team per month work with Rebuilding Hope.
The idea came about as part of Clayton Impact, a program that “pays” employees to volunteer their time and talent in their communities.
“I’m so proud of our team members who are putting their home-building skills to work to help families here in our community,” said Dan Goodin, Clayton Oxford general manager.
The program offers full-time team members eight paid hours of VTO and part-timers four hours every year so they can volunteer. “If every team member in the state of North Carolina volunteers through the Clayton Impact program, they will contribute over 14,000 volunteer hours to local volunteer activities and non-profits each year,” Crosby said in a press release.
Clayton has more than 1,700 employees in North Carolina in its retail home centers and local facilities.
Clayton Homes was founded in 1956 and offers traditional site-built homes and off-site build housing, from modular and manufactured homes to tiny houses and college dormitories. The company built 56,240 homes across the country in 2020.