Random Acts of Kindness

SRP Federal Credit Union has always been a part of the communities we serve. We donate both monetarily and through the volunteerism of our staff to help make our communities better. When the COVID-19 pandemic made “normal” life a thing of the past, and many of our community friends and businesses were struggling financially, SRP decided to help with the Random Acts of Kindness program. Our staff scoured the area and began paying for meals for families as they began venturing out again to eat in restaurants as they opened their doors. We paid off layaways for Christmas shoppers and paid for services as people made their way back to small businesses.

Although the pandemic crisis period has passed, SRP has decided to continue the Random Acts of Kindness program to give back to people in the community in hopes they will pay it forward by showing an act of kindness to another. By helping each other and being kind to one another, our communities will prosper. Listed below are some of the Random Acts of Kindness SRP has done in our community over the past few months.

• Gave gift cards to teachers of special needs students at a local school
• Donated $500 worth of school supplies to a Backpack Giveaway for students in need in South Augusta
• Donated over $500 worth of food items to a small, local food pantry/soup kitchen in Gloverville
• Gave baby items to “The World’s Largest Baby Shower” held at a church in North Augusta that was collecting needed baby items from the community to be distributed to local pregnancy centers
• The test fee for 100 GED applicants at a local technical college was paid by SRP so they could take their GED test at no cost
• Gave gift cards to graduating class of Child Enrichment CASA volunteers, who learn how to advocate for the best interest of children in foster care during their training and are sworn in by a juvenile court judge and assigned a child or sibling group’s cases
• Paid for lunch for a Caregiver’s Support Group of patients with Parkinson’s Disease
• Pizza party lunches were delivered for the children and volunteers of two meetings of the Child Enrichment of Augusta's Heroes Club, a therapy group for children who have experienced abuse
• Patients at Christ Community's medical office on Peach Orchard Road were surprised with $50 Walmart gift cards at the end of their doctor's visit one afternoon
• Many diners at local downtown Aiken restaurants had their lunches paid for compliments of SRP one afternoon
• In recognition of the difficult work they do daily for burn patients, the 130 nurses at the Joseph M. Still Burn Unit at Doctor's Hospital received $25 gift cards to various restaurants in our area
• 142 new hardcover children's books were donated to RISE Augusta to be distributed to individual children in the CSRA as gifts to promote reading
• On a Wednesday morning (Senior Citizens Day) at Publix in Aiken, twenty $100 Publix gift cards were given to senior shoppers for their grocery shopping
• On a Wednesday morning (Senior Citizens Day) at Publix in North Augusta, twenty $100 Publix gift cards were given to senior shoppers for their grocery shopping