The McCarthy Heart Hats program reflects the company’s focus as a community builder.


McCarthy Building Companies Has Heart


McCarthy Building Companies embraces the reality that building stronger commu- nities goes beyond constructing spaces where people live and work. Te com- pany is also passionate about building up neighborhoods and improving lives by helping those in need. Almost 20 years ago, the company for-


malized its community outreach program, McCarthy Heart Hats, to build on its legacy of giving back. Since then, McCarthy and its employees have donated more than $20 million and spent thousands of hours that directly benefit local communities. As Michael Herrera, McCarthy’s South-


ern Pacific regional director of community outreach and supplier diversity, puts it, “Te Heart Hats approach is personal. It’s more than writing a check and calling it a day. It’s about time, passion and a commitment to making a difference. Our


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employee-owners are the driving force behind our efforts to give back. Many of the 200 organizations and causes we sup- port every year are inspired by requests from individual employees who have a personal interest in the cause and are committed to making an impact.” Recently, McCarthy facilitated the


donation of 75,000 face masks (a whop- ping seven full pallets), leveraging a contact provided by one of McCarthy’s employee-owners. Trough this contact McCarthy was able to deliver these pal- lets of face masks to various nonprofit organizations in the greater Los Angeles area. They employed the services of a local woman and minority-owned cou- rier service to conduct these deliveries, something Herrera called “a true win-win for our community at large.” All McCarthy employees are offered


“The Heart Hats approach is personal. It’s more than writing a check and calling it a day. It’s about time, passion and a commitment to making a difference. Our employee-owners are the driving force behind our efforts to give back.”


– Michael Herrera, McCarthy Building Companies


a paid day off each year to volunteer their time and talents. “As a community builder, it’s important to do the right thing for our communities,” Herrera added. “Our Heart Hats program empowers all of us at McCarthy to build stronger and more resilient societies — embracing the philosophy of being a good neighbor!”


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