Mike Gendich has been a member of the Rochester Lions Club for over 30 years. Recently, we purchased a food truck to provide on-site cooking and sales of food and beverages at various volunteer events. We not only house the truck at Metalmite headquarters, but we provide all of the maintenance for them. The club simply leases the use per each charity event and all of the proceeds go to that specific charity, such as the Leader Dog School for the Blind or other groups that the Lions Clubs support. Metalmite not only donates almost all of the food for these events, but we donate the necessarily labor required to participate (in the form of volunteer employees). Charitable causes such as painting the historical barn in Rochester, and the Make A Wish fundraiser, were just two of the events we participated in this past spring.
Metalmite also sponsors local high school and university students involved in the FIRST Robotics Program for engineers. We provide these aspiring engineers with manufcaturing capactity, monetary contributions, and our personal time, to help answer questions pertaining to project implementation. We donate every year to the Lawrence Technological Institute and Oakland University enginerering programs, and many former students have become future vendors for our company. As a matter of fact, positive acclaim from a former OU student, and current Army engineer, is how we were awarded a contract to work with the U.S. Department of Defense!
For more information on the Rochester Lions Club, please visit http://www.rochesterlionsclub.org/