Business Philanthropy Honored at 2013 Chamber Goodwill Awards

The Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce honored three businesses with its 2013 Goodwill Awards.

"These Fredericksburg region outstanding businesses won in recognition of their extraordinary commitments to helping others and improving the local quality of life," Chamber president Susan Spears said.

Jack Brown’s Tattoo Revival won the small business award.  For the last seven years, its “Tattoos for the Community” event has raised more than $80,000 for local non-profits, including Rappahannock Refugee Hope House, the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank, the Fairy Godmother Project, Fredericksburg SPCA and Rappahannock Counsel Against Sexual Assault.

Marstel-Day, LLC won the medium business award. The company has focused much of its service on making the Fredericksburg region a cleaner, greener place to live. Its employees log between 800 and 1,000 hours per year on activities such as planting trees along city streets and in city parks. Marstel-Day also gives back to organizations such as Friends of the Rappahannock, the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, Fredericksburg Parks and Recreation and the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank.

Quarles Petroleum, LLC won the large business award. The company has a long history of community involvement and corporate social responsibility. Quarles hosts numerous food drives on behalf of the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank, helps needy families through a company-wide effort to support The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program, encourages its employees  to serve on numerous local non-profit boards, and – this year alone – raised more than $31,000 for Rappahannock United Way by serving as a RUW Pacesetter Company.

The awards were presented Nov. 13 at the 12th annual Goodwill Awards & Expo, hosted by the Chamber and held at Rappahannock Goodwill Industries’ newly opened community center, 4701 Market St., Fredericksburg.

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