Franey Named to Charity Board of Directors

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Total Landscape Founder and President Bob Franey was recently named to the honorary board of directors for Angels’ Arms.

 

Franey was asked to join the honorary board after volunteering his personal time and Total Landscape’s services to numerous projects and events at the Angels’ Arms family group foster residence. Shortly after Angels’ Arms was founded in 2003, Franey began providing landscaping and lawn maintenance services to the organization when he read about their efforts to keep siblings in foster care together in a caring, family-oriented environment.

 

"I love kids, and when I read that newspaper article, I knew I had to do something to help make the house feel like a home for those children,” Franey notes. “The one thing I could do was to help the foster parents and the organization take care of the weekly yard maintenance and spruce up the exterior of the residence with professional landscaping.”

 

Since the Angels' Arms house was purchased in 2003, 15 foster children have called it home. Bob Franey and his staff at Total Landscape, St. Louis, Mo., give back to their community by maintaining the grounds at Angels' Arms and through other volunteer work in their area. Photo: www.angelsarms.org

Franey, a professional landscape contractor by trade, has volunteered and provided both services and financial support to children's youth organizations and charities. Coaching children involved in youth football teams has also been a passion for Franey.

 This sense of social responsibility and community volunteerism is share by the staff at Total Landscape, who are involved in various charitable and community service organizations in their off hours. Franey encourages staff participation in both company-sponsored community service projects and through each staff member's charitable interest of choice. The Total Landscape management team recently planned and hosted a holiday dinner celebration, and personally donated gifts for the Angels' Arms foster children.

 

Franey is a firm believer that successful companies must give back to the communities where they serve. "The Total Landscape motto is 'Building Relationships One Landscape at a Time', and our philosophy is that we must build stronger relationships and communities by sharing our success with those who are in need," he says.